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We study Variational Rectified Flow Matching, a framework that enhances classic rectified flow matching by modeling multi-modal velocity vector-fields. At inference time, classic rectified flow matching 'moves' samples from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Pengsheng Guo , Alexander G. Schwing

Self-similar stable mixed moving average processes can be related to nonsingular flows through their minimal representations. Self-similar stable mixed moving averages related to dissipative flows have been studied, as well as processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladas Pipiras , Murad S. Taqqu

The automation of probabilistic reasoning is one of the primary aims of machine learning. Recently, the confluence of variational inference and deep learning has led to powerful and flexible automatic inference methods that can be trained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-10 Luca Ambrogioni , Gianluigi Silvestri , Marcel van Gerven

A key challenge when designing particle filters in high-dimensional state spaces is the construction of a proposal distribution that is close to the posterior distribution. Recent advances in particle flow filters provide a promising avenue…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-30 Yunpeng Li , Mark Coates

We propose, analyze and test a fully discrete, efficient second-order algorithm for computing flow ensembles average of viscous, incompressible, and time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows under uncertainties in initial conditions.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Muhammad Mohebujjaman

Many recent machine learning models rely on fine-grained dynamic control flow for training and inference. In particular, models based on recurrent neural networks and on reinforcement learning depend on recurrence relations, data-dependent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Yuan Yu , Martín Abadi , Paul Barham , Eugene Brevdo , Mike Burrows , Andy Davis , Jeff Dean , Sanjay Ghemawat , Tim Harley , Peter Hawkins , Michael Isard , Manjunath Kudlur , Rajat Monga , Derek Murray , Xiaoqiang Zheng

A novel residual-type {\it a posteriori} error analysis technique is developed for multipoint flux mixed finite element methods for flow in porous media in two or three space dimensions. The derived {\it a posteriori} error estimator for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Shaohong Du , Shuyu Sun , Xiaoping Xie

Modeling the evolution of high-dimensional systems from limited snapshot observations at irregular time points poses a significant challenge in quantitative biology and related fields. Traditional approaches often rely on dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Justin Lee , Behnaz Moradijamei , Heman Shakeri

Efficient and accurate motion prediction is crucial for ensuring safety and informed decision-making in autonomous driving, particularly under dynamic real-world conditions that necessitate multi-modal forecasts. We introduce TrajFlow, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Qi Yan , Brian Zhang , Yutong Zhang , Daniel Yang , Joshua White , Di Chen , Jiachao Liu , Langechuan Liu , Binnan Zhuang , Shaoshuai Shi , Renjie Liao

Variational inference is a popular method for estimating model parameters and conditional distributions in hierarchical and mixed models, which arise frequently in many settings in the health, social, and biological sciences. Variational…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-10 Ted Westling , Tyler H. McCormick

Based on machine learning techniques, we propose a novel method to estimate flow fields using only floating sensor locations. This method does not require either ground-truth velocity fields or governing equations for fluid flows, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Tomoya Oura , Reno Miura , Koji Fukagata

Probabilistic power flow (PPF) is essential for quantifying operational uncertainty in modern distribution systems with high penetration of renewable generation and flexible loads. Conventional PPF methods primarily rely on Monte Carlo (MC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Weijie Xia , James Ciyu Qin , Edgar Mauricio Salazar Duque , Hongjin Du , Peter Palensky , Giovanni Sansavini , Pedro P. Vergara

We consider the problem of single-channel audio source separation with the goal of reconstructing $K$ sources from their mixture. We address this ill-posed problem with FLOSS (FLOw matching for Source Separation), a constrained generation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Robin Scheibler , John R. Hershey , Arnaud Doucet , Henry Li

Flow and bridge matching are a novel class of processes which encompass diffusion models. One of the main aspect of their increased flexibility is that these models can interpolate between arbitrary data distributions i.e. they generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Valentin De Bortoli , Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Weilie Nie

We consider the topic of data imputation, a foundational task in machine learning that addresses issues with missing data. To that end, we propose MCFlow, a deep framework for imputation that leverages normalizing flow generative models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Trevor W. Richardson , Wencheng Wu , Lei Lin , Beilei Xu , Edgar A. Bernal

In order to prevent velocity, pressure, and temperature spikes at material discontinuities occurring when the interface-capturing schemes inconsistently simulate compressible multi-material flows(when the specific heats ratio is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Zhiwei He , Yousheng Zhang , Li Li , Baolin Tian

Recent work has shown that leveraging learned predictions can improve the running time of algorithms for bipartite matching and similar combinatorial problems. In this work, we build on this idea to improve the performance of the widely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Yuyan Wang

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling through continuous normalizing flows. We investigate a potential topological constraint: when the prior distribution and target distribution have mismatched topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Congzhou M Sha

In this paper, we propose Continuous Graph Flow, a generative continuous flow based method that aims to model complex distributions of graph-structured data. Once learned, the model can be applied to an arbitrary graph, defining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhiwei Deng , Megha Nawhal , Lili Meng , Greg Mori

Existing machine learning methods for causal inference usually estimate quantities expressed via the mean of potential outcomes (e.g., average treatment effect). However, such quantities do not capture the full information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentyn Melnychuk , Dennis Frauen , Stefan Feuerriegel