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Despite recent advances, the remaining bottlenecks in deep generative models are necessity of extensive training and difficulties with generalization from small number of training examples. We develop a new generative model called…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-06 Sergey Bartunov , Dmitry P. Vetrov

The use of guidance to steer sampling toward desired outcomes has been widely explored within diffusion models, especially in applications such as image and trajectory generation. However, incorporating guidance during training remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Marvin Alles , Nutan Chen , Patrick van der Smagt , Botond Cseke

Flow-based generative models, including diffusion models, excel at modeling continuous distributions in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we introduce Flow Policy Optimization (FPO), a simple on-policy reinforcement learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 David McAllister , Songwei Ge , Brent Yi , Chung Min Kim , Ethan Weber , Hongsuk Choi , Haiwen Feng , Angjoo Kanazawa

Training deep neural networks remains computationally intensive due to the itera2 tive nature of gradient-based optimization. We propose Gradient Flow Matching (GFM), a continuous-time modeling framework that treats neural network training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiao Shou , Yanna Ding , Jianxi Gao

ControlNet offers a powerful way to guide diffusion-based generative models, yet most implementations rely on ad-hoc heuristics to choose which network blocks to control-an approach that varies unpredictably with different tasks. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheng Fang , Lichuan Xiang , Xu Cai , Kaicheng Zhou , Hongkai Wen

Likelihood-based policy gradient methods are the dominant approach for training robot control policies from rewards. These methods rely on differentiable action likelihoods, which constrain policy outputs to simple distributions like…

Generative models see increasing use in computer-aided drug design. However, while performing well at capturing distributions of molecular motifs, they often produce synthetically inaccessible molecules. To address this, we introduce…

Designing mRNA sequences is a major challenge in developing next-generation therapeutics, since it involves exploring a vast space of possible nucleotide combinations while optimizing sequence properties like stability, translation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Aya Laajil , Abduragim Shtanchaev , Sajan Muhammad , Eric Moulines , Salem Lahlou

Generative policies based on diffusion models and flow matching have shown strong promise for offline reinforcement learning (RL), but their applicability remains largely confined to continuous action spaces. To address a broader range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Fairoz Nower Khan , Nabuat Zaman Nahim , Ruiquan Huang , Haibo Yang , Peizhong Ju

Phylogenetics is a branch of computational biology that studies the evolutionary relationships among biological entities. Its long history and numerous applications notwithstanding, inference of phylogenetic trees from sequence data remains…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-26 Mingyang Zhou , Zichao Yan , Elliot Layne , Nikolay Malkin , Dinghuai Zhang , Moksh Jain , Mathieu Blanchette , Yoshua Bengio

Efficiently identifying the right trajectories for training remains an open problem in GFlowNets. To address this, it is essential to prioritize exploration in regions of the state space where the reward distribution has not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Sajan Muhammad , Salem Lahlou

Deluge Networks (DelugeNets) are deep neural networks which efficiently facilitate massive cross-layer information inflows from preceding layers to succeeding layers. The connections between layers in DelugeNets are established through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Jason Kuen , Xiangfei Kong , Gang Wang , Yap-Peng Tan

We tackle the problem of sampling from intractable high-dimensional density functions, a fundamental task that often appears in machine learning and statistics. We extend recent sampling-based approaches that leverage controlled stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Cheng-Hao Liu , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Autoregressive learning of time-stepping operators provides an effective approach to data-driven partial differential equation (PDE) simulation, yet for conservation laws, they face a fundamental challenge: learned updates may violate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Zishuo Lan , Junjie Li , Lei Wang , Jincheng Wang

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Deep learning architectures suffer from depth-related performance degradation, limiting the effective depth of neural networks. Approaches like ResNet are able to mitigate this, but they do not completely eliminate the problem. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Antonio Di Cecco , Carlo Metta , Marco Fantozzi , Francesco Morandin , Maurizio Parton

We study generative modeling of graphs with recurring subgraph motifs. We propose Flowette, a continuous flow matching framework that employs a graph neural network-based transformer to learn a velocity field over graph representations with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Asiri Wijesinghe , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi , Daniel M. Steinberg , Cheng Soon Ong

In this work we explore the advantages of end-to-end learning of multilayer maps offered by feed forward neural-networks (FFNN) for learning and predicting dynamics from transient fluid flow data.While machine learning in general depends on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Shivakanth Chary Puligilla , Balaji Jayaraman

Foundational language models show a remarkable ability to learn new concepts during inference via context data. However, similar work for images lag behind. To address this challenge, we introduce FLoWN, a flow matching model that learns to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Daniel Saragih , Deyu Cao , Tejas Balaji , Ashwin Santhosh

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