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Finding a suitable layout represents a crucial task for diverse applications in graphic design. Motivated by simpler and smoother sampling trajectories, we explore the use of Flow Matching as an alternative to current diffusion-based layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro , Naoto Inoue , Kento Masui , Mayu Otani , Hideki Nakayama

We propose a conditional non-autoregressive neural sequence model based on iterative refinement. The proposed model is designed based on the principles of latent variable models and denoising autoencoders, and is generally applicable to any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Jason Lee , Elman Mansimov , Kyunghyun Cho

A normalizing flow models a complex probability density as an invertible transformation of a simple density. The invertibility means that we can evaluate densities and generate samples from a flow. In practice, autoregressive flow-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Conor Durkan , Artur Bekasov , Iain Murray , George Papamakarios

Flow and diffusion models achieve high-fidelity, high-resolution image synthesis, but often require many function evaluations (NFEs) at sampling time. Existing acceleration methods either require additional training through distillation or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Anuska Roy , Pravin Nair

Unsupervised anomaly detection with localization has many practical applications when labeling is infeasible and, moreover, when anomaly examples are completely missing in the train data. While recently proposed models for such data setup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Denis Gudovskiy , Shun Ishizaka , Kazuki Kozuka

Normalizing flows (NFs) are end-to-end likelihood-based generative models for continuous data, and have recently regained attention with encouraging progress on image generation. Yet in the video generation domain, where spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiatao Gu , Ying Shen , Tianrong Chen , Laurent Dinh , Yuyang Wang , Miguel Angel Bautista , David Berthelot , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Modeling and synthesizing image noise is an important aspect in many computer vision applications. The long-standing additive white Gaussian and heteroscedastic (signal-dependent) noise models widely used in the literature provide only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Marcus A. Brubaker , Michael S. Brown

In this work, we investigate the use of normalizing flows to model conditional distributions. In particular, we use our proposed method to analyze inverse problems with invertible neural networks by maximizing the posterior likelihood. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Zhisheng Xiao , Qing Yan , Yali Amit

Continuous diffusion and flow matching models could represent a powerful alternative to autoregressive approaches for language modelling (LM), as they unlock a host of advantages currently reserved for continuous modalities, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Oscar Davis , Anastasiia Filippova , Pierre Ablin , Victor Turrisi , Amitis Shidani , Marco Cuturi , Louis Béthune

Conditional diffusion models have exhibited superior performance in high-fidelity text-guided visual generation and editing. Nevertheless, prevailing text-guided visual diffusion models primarily focus on incorporating text-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ling Yang , Zhilong Zhang , Zhaochen Yu , Jingwei Liu , Minkai Xu , Stefano Ermon , Bin Cui

Conditional image editing aims to modify a source image according to textual prompts and optional reference guidance. Such editing is crucial in scenarios requiring strict structural control (i.e., anomaly insertion in driving scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Pu , Hao Zheng , Ziqian Mo , Hill Zhang , Tianyi Fan , Shuhong Wu , Jiaheng Wei

Directly modeling the explicit likelihood of the raw data distribution is key topic in the machine learning area, which achieves the scaling successes in Large Language Models by autoregressive modeling. However, continuous AR modeling over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Guangting Zheng , Qinyu Zhao , Tao Yang , Fei Xiao , Zhijie Lin , Jie Wu , Jiajun Deng , Yanyong Zhang , Rui Zhu

We introduce AdvantageFlow, a forward-process reinforcement learning algorithm for rectified flow models. Unlike Flow-GRPO, which optimizes the reverse process, we optimize an advantage-weighted forward-process prediction loss. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Branislav Kveton , Anup Rao , Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Krishna Kumar Singh , Viet Dac Lai

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple input images acquired through various sources to synthesize a new fused image. Existing methods usually employ distinct constraint designs tailored to specific scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Bing Cao , Xingxin Xu , Pengfei Zhu , Qilong Wang , Qinghua Hu

The high demand for computer science education has led to high enrollments, with thousands of students in many introductory courses. In such large courses, it can be overwhelmingly difficult for instructors to understand class-wide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ashley Ge Zhang , Xiaohang Tang , Steve Oney , Yan Chen

Understanding the dependencies among features of a dataset is at the core of most unsupervised learning tasks. However, a majority of generative modeling approaches are focused solely on the joint distribution $p(x)$ and utilize models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Yang Li , Shoaib Akbar , Junier B. Oliva

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yexiong Lin , Jia Shi , Shanshan Ye , Wanyu Wang , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu

We introduce a new architecture called a conditional invertible neural network (cINN), and use it to address the task of diverse image-to-image translation for natural images. This is not easily possible with existing INN models due to some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Lynton Ardizzone , Jakob Kruse , Carsten Lüth , Niels Bracher , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

Image-to-image (I2I) translation comprises a wide spectrum of tasks. Here we divide this problem into three levels: strong-fidelity translation, normal-fidelity translation, and weak-fidelity translation, indicating the extent to which the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Weichen Fan , Jinghuan Chen , Ziwei Liu

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang
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