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Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool for measuring the distance between two defined probability distributions. In this paper, we develop a new manifold named the coupling matrix manifold (CMM), where each point on CMM can be regarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Dai Shi , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , S. T. Boris Choy , Zhiyong Wang

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

Flow Matching enables simulation-free training of generative models on Riemannian manifolds, yet sampling typically still relies on numerically integrating a probability-flow ODE. We propose Riemannian MeanFlow (RMF), extending MeanFlow to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zichen Zhong , Haoliang Sun , Yukun Zhao , Yongshun Gong , Yilong Yin

Optimal power flow (OPF) is one of the most important optimization problems in the energy industry. In its simplest form, OPF attempts to find the optimal power that the generators within the grid have to produce to satisfy a given demand.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Damian Owerko , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

Rectified Flow (RF) models have advanced high-quality image and video synthesis via optimal transport theory. However, when applied to image-to-image translation, they still depend on costly multi-step denoising, hindering real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shengqian Li , Ming Gao , Yi Liu , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Feng Dai

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recent direct-regression methods using deep neural networks achieve remarkable performance improvement. However, they do not explicitly capture long-term motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Shiyu Zhao , Long Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Enyu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Human motion synthesis is a fundamental task in computer animation. Recent methods based on diffusion models or GPT structure demonstrate commendable performance but exhibit drawbacks in terms of slow sampling speeds and error accumulation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Vincent Tao Hu , Wenzhe Yin , Pingchuan Ma , Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Yuki M Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Pascal Mettes , Bjorn Ommer , Cees G. M. Snoek

Recent advances in cross-modal few-shot adaptation treat visual-semantic alignment as a continuous feature transport problem via Flow Matching (FM). However, we argue that Euclidean-based FM overlooks fundamental limitations of flat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Lin Li , Ziqi Jiang , Gefan Ye , Zhenqi He , Jiahui Li , Jun Xiao , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Long Chen

Optimal transport (OT) is a popular tool in machine learning to compare probability measures geometrically, but it comes with substantial computational burden. Linear programming algorithms for computing OT distances scale cubically in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Gaspard Beugnot , Aude Genevay , Kristjan Greenewald , Justin Solomon

This paper presents novel methods to approximate the nonlinear AC optimal power flow (OPF) into tractable linear/quadratic programming (LP/QP) based OPF problems that can be used for power system planning and operation. We derive a linear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Philipp Fortenbacher , Turhan Demiray

Optimal Transport (OT) problem aims to find a transport plan that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. OT theory has been widely utilized in generative modeling. In the beginning, OT distance has been used as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Autonomous vehicle navigation is a key challenge in artificial intelligence, requiring robust and accurate decision-making processes. This research introduces a new end-to-end method that exploits multimodal information from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Fouad Makiyeh , Mark Bastourous , Anass Bairouk , Wei Xiao , Mirjana Maras , Tsun-Hsuan Wangb , Marc Blanchon , Ramin Hasani , Patrick Chareyre , Daniela Rus

We show that the matching problem that underlies optical flow requires multiple strategies, depending on the amount of image motion and other factors. We then study the implications of this observation on training a deep neural network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Tal Schuster , Lior Wolf , David Gadot

Synthetic data generation is an important tool for privacy-preserving data sharing. Although diffusion models have set recent benchmarks, flow matching (FM) offers a promising alternative. This paper presents different ways to implement FM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Bahrul Ilmi Nasution , Floor Eijkelboom , Mark Elliot , Richard Allmendinger , Christian A. Naesseth

We address the convergence problem in learning the Optimal Transport (OT) map, where the OT Map refers to a map from one distribution to another while minimizing the transport cost. Semi-dual Neural OT, a widely used approach for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Dohyun Kwon

Flow-based diffusion models have emerged as a leading paradigm for training generative models across images and videos. However, their memorization-generalization behavior remains poorly understood. In this work, we revisit the flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Haoming Liu , Jinnuo Liu , Yanhao Li , Liuyang Bai , Yunkai Ji , Yuanhe Guo , Shenji Wan , Hongyi Wen

Flow matching has emerged as a compelling generative modeling approach that is widely used across domains. To generate data via a flow matching model, an ordinary differential equation (ODE) is numerically solved via forward integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yichi Zhang , Yici Yan , Alex Schwing , Zhizhen Zhao

Motion detection is a fundamental but challenging task for autonomous driving. In particular scenes like highway, remote objects have to be paid extra attention for better controlling decision. Aiming at distant vehicles, we train a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Ka Man Lo

We present a global optimization approach to optical flow estimation. The approach optimizes a classical optical flow objective over the full space of mappings between discrete grids. No descriptor matching is used. The highly regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Recent advances have reformulated diffusion models as deterministic ordinary differential equations (ODEs) through the framework of flow matching, providing a unified formulation for the noise-to-data generative process. Various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yan Luo , Henry Huang , Todd Y. Zhou , Mengyu Wang