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Optical flow is a regression task where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to major breakthroughs. However, this comes at major computational demands due to the use of cost-volumes and pyramidal representations. This was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg

The Boltzmann distribution of a protein provides a roadmap to all of its functional states. Normalizing flows are a promising tool for modeling this distribution, but current methods are intractable for typical pharmacological targets; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Joseph C. Kim , David Bloore , Karan Kapoor , Jun Feng , Ming-Hong Hao , Mengdi Wang

Modeling transformations between arbitrary data distributions is a fundamental scientific challenge, arising in applications like drug discovery and evolutionary simulation. While flow matching offers a natural framework for this task, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shiye Su , Yuhui Zhang , Linqi Zhou , Rajesh Ranganath , Serena Yeung-Levy

A nonlinear ensemble-variational (EnVar) data assimilation is performed in order to estimate the unknown flow field over a slender cone at Mach-6, from isolated wall-pressure measurements. The cost functional accounts for discrepancies in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-14 David A. Buchta , Stuart J. Laurence , Tamer A. Zaki

In this review I summarize how machine learning can be used in lattice gauge theory simulations and what ap\-proaches are currently available to improve the sampling of gauge field configurations, with a focus on applications in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-15 Urs Wenger

We contribute to the vastly growing field of machine learning for engineering systems by demonstrating that equivariant graph neural networks have the potential to learn more accurate dynamic-interaction models than their non-equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Artur P. Toshev , Gianluca Galletti , Johannes Brandstetter , Stefan Adami , Nikolaus A. Adams

Coupling-based normalizing flows (e.g. RealNVP) are a popular family of normalizing flow architectures that work surprisingly well in practice. This calls for theoretical understanding. Existing work shows that such flows weakly converge to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Felix Draxler , Christoph Schnörr , Ullrich Köthe

The distribution of flow harmonics in heavy ion experiment can be characterized by standardized cumulants. We first model the ellipticity and power parameters of the elliptic-power distribution by employing MC-Glauber model. Then we use the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-08 Navid Abbasi , Davood Allahbakhshi , Ali Davody , Seyed Farid Taghavi

Normalizing flows are a powerful class of generative models for continuous random variables, showing both strong model flexibility and the potential for non-autoregressive generation. These benefits are also desired when modeling discrete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Zachary M. Ziegler , Alexander M. Rush

We propose a novel method for sampling from unnormalized Boltzmann densities based on a probability flow ordinary differential equation (ODE) derived from linear stochastic interpolants. The key innovation of our approach is the use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Gabriele Steidl , Christian Wald , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Ruizhe Zhang

Normalizing flows are flexible, parameterized distributions that can be used to approximate expectations from intractable distributions via importance sampling. However, current flow-based approaches are limited on challenging targets where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Laurence Illing Midgley , Vincent Stimper , Gregor N. C. Simm , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

The performance of flow matching and diffusion models can be greatly improved at inference time using reward alignment algorithms, yet efficiency remains a major limitation. While several algorithms were proposed, we demonstrate that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Peter Holderrieth , Uriel Singer , Tommi Jaakkola , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yaron Lipman , Brian Karrer

Standard flow matching scales well but typically relies on an unstructured source distribution, limiting its ability to learn interpretable latent structure. Latent-variable models, by contrast, capture structure but often sacrifice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xavier Sumba , Carles Balsells-Rodas , Yingzhen Li

Analytical solutions to the lattice Boltzmann Equation make it possible to study the method itself, explore the properties of its collision operator, and identify implementations of boundary conditions. In this paper, we propose a method to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-02 Jordan Larson , Alexander J. Wagner

Sampling a target probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental challenge in computational science and engineering. Recent work shows that algorithms derived by considering gradient flows in the space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M Stuart

The recent introduction of machine learning techniques, especially normalizing flows, for the sampling of lattice gauge theories has shed some hope on improving the sampling efficiency of the traditional HMC algorithm. Naive use of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-06 David Albandea , Luigi Del Debbio , Pilar Hernández , Richard Kenway , Joe Marsh Rossney , Alberto Ramos

Many systems in physics, engineering, and biology exhibit multiscale stochastic dynamics, where low-dimensional slow variables evolve under the influence of high-dimensional fast processes. In practice, observations are often limited to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Anan Saha , Arnab Ganguly

Sampling equilibrium distributions is fundamental to statistical mechanics. While flow matching has emerged as scalable state-of-the-art paradigm for generative modeling, its potential for equilibrium sampling in condensed-phase systems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Emil Hoffmann , Maximilian Schebek , Leon Klein , Frank Noé , Jutta Rogal

The inverse Potts problem to infer a Boltzmann distribution for homologous protein sequences from their single-site and pairwise amino acid frequencies recently attracts a great deal of attention in the studies of protein structure and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-23 Sanzo Miyazawa

Sampling-based motion planning is the predominant paradigm in many real-world robotic applications, but its performance is immensely dependent on the quality of the samples. The majority of traditional planners are inefficient as they use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tin Lai , Fabio Ramos