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Normalizing flows are deep generative models that allow efficient likelihood calculation and sampling. The core requirement for this advantage is that they are constructed using functions that can be efficiently inverted and for which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 You Lu , Bert Huang

In this work, we propose a new generative model that is capable of automatically decoupling global and local representations of images in an entirely unsupervised setting, by embedding a generative flow in the VAE framework to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Xuezhe Ma , Xiang Kong , Shanghang Zhang , Eduard Hovy

In image restoration, single-step discriminative mappings often lack fine details via expectation learning, whereas generative paradigms suffer from inefficient multi-step sampling and noise-residual coupling. To address this dilemma, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Jie Xiao , Dong Li , Jie Huang , Xueyang Fu

Flow-based generative models have highly desirable properties like exact log-likelihood evaluation and exact latent-variable inference, however they are still in their infancy and have not received as much attention as alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Albert Pumarola , Stefan Popov , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Vittorio Ferrari

We address the problem of data augmentation in a rotating turbulence set-up, a paradigmatic challenge in geophysical applications. The goal is to reconstruct information in two-dimensional (2D) cuts of the three-dimensional flow fields,…

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful method for generative modeling on domains like images or videos, and even on irregular or unstructured data like 3D point clouds or even protein structures. These models are commonly trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuyang Wang , Anurag Ranjan , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

Recent work demonstrated that flow-based invertible neural networks are promising tools for solving ambiguous inverse problems. Following up on this, we investigate how ten invertible architectures and related models fare on two intuitive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jakob Kruse , Lynton Ardizzone , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

The Normalizing Flow (NF) models a general probability density by estimating an invertible transformation applied on samples drawn from a known distribution. We introduce a new type of NF, called Deep Diffeomorphic Normalizing Flow (DDNF).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-26 Hadi Salman , Payman Yadollahpour , Tom Fletcher , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Large-scale diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance in generative tasks. Beyond their initial training applications, these models have proven their ability to function as versatile plug-and-play priors. For instance, 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiaofeng Yang , Cheng Chen , Xulei Yang , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

This paper introduces Gauge Flow Models, a novel class of Generative Flow Models. These models incorporate a learnable Gauge Field within the Flow Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE). A comprehensive mathematical framework for these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Alexander Strunk , Roland Assam

The distinctive architectural features of normalizing flows (NFs), notably bijectivity and tractable Jacobians, make them well-suited for generative modeling. Invertible neural networks (INNs) build on these principles to address supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shubhanshu Shekhar , Mohammad Javad Khojasteh , Ananya Acharya , Tony Tohme , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

A recent study in turbulent flow simulation demonstrated the potential of generative diffusion models for fast 3D surrogate modeling. This approach eliminates the need for specifying initial states or performing lengthy simulations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-30 Abdullah Saydemir , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

Recently normalizing flows (NFs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on modeling 3D point clouds while allowing sampling with arbitrary resolution at inference time. However, these flow-based models still require long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Janis Postels , Mengya Liu , Riccardo Spezialetti , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

This paper presents a novel generative model to synthesize fluid simulations from a set of reduced parameters. A convolutional neural network is trained on a collection of discrete, parameterizable fluid simulation velocity fields. Due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Byungsoo Kim , Vinicius C. Azevedo , Nils Thuerey , Theodore Kim , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Generative deep learning is powering a wave of new innovations in materials design. In this article, we discuss the basic operating principles of these methods and their advantages over rational design through the lens of a case study on…

Generative Flow Networks (GFNs) were initially introduced on directed acyclic graphs to sample from an unnormalized distribution density. Recent works have extended the theoretical framework for generative methods allowing more flexibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Leo Maxime Brunswic , Mateo Clemente , Rui Heng Yang , Adam Sigal , Amir Rasouli , Yinchuan Li

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a classical family of likelihood-based methods that have received revived attention. Recent efforts such as TARFlow have shown that NFs are capable of achieving promising performance on image modeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , David Berthelot , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

A prominent goal of representation learning research is to achieve representations which are factorized in a useful manner with respect to the ground truth factors of variation. The fields of disentangled and equivariant representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yue Song , T. Anderson Keller , Nicu Sebe , Max Welling

Flow-based generative models are powerful exact likelihood models with efficient sampling and inference. Despite their computational efficiency, flow-based models generally have much worse density modeling performance compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ho , Xi Chen , Aravind Srinivas , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel