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Conditional flow matching (CFM) has emerged as a powerful framework for training continuous normalizing flows due to its computational efficiency and effectiveness. However, standard CFM often produces paths that deviate significantly from…

Learning the dynamics of a process given sampled observations at several time points is an important but difficult task in many scientific applications. When no ground-truth trajectories are available, but one has only snapshots of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Oskar Kviman , Kirill Tamogashev , Nicola Branchini , Víctor Elvira , Jens Lagergren , Nikolay Malkin

Understanding cellular trajectories via time-resolved single-cell transcriptomics is vital for studying development, regeneration, and disease. A key challenge is inferring continuous trajectories from discrete snapshots. Biological…

Recent flow matching (FM) methods improve the few-shot adaptation of vision-language models, by modeling cross-modal alignment as a continuous multi-step flow. In this paper, we argue that existing FM methods are inherently constrained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hongxu Chen , Yanghao Wang , Bowei Zhu , Hongxiang Li , Zhen Wang , Ziqi Jiang , Lin Li , Rui Liu , Long Chen

Graph-structured data jointly contain discrete topology and continuous geometry, which poses fundamental challenges for generative modeling due to heterogeneous distributions, incompatible noise dynamics, and the need for equivariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Rongjian Xu , Teng Pang , Zhiqiang Dong , Guoqiang Wu

Flow maps enable high-quality image generation in a single forward pass. However, unlike iterative diffusion models, their lack of an explicit sampling trajectory impedes incorporating external constraints for conditional generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abbas Mammadov , So Takao , Bohan Chen , Ricardo Baptista , Morteza Mardani , Yee Whye Teh , Julius Berner

Forecasting conditional stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems is a fundamental challenge repeatedly encountered across the biological and physical sciences. While flow-based models can impressively predict the temporal evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Adam P. Generale , Andreas E. Robertson , Surya R. Kalidindi

Simulating the long-time evolution of Hamiltonian systems is limited by the small timesteps required for stable numerical integration. To overcome this constraint, we introduce a framework to learn Hamiltonian Flow Maps by predicting the…

Graph generation is a fundamental task with wide applications in modeling complex systems. Although existing methods align the spectrum or degree profile of the target graph, they often ignore the geometry induced by eigenvectors and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xikun Huang , Tianyu Ruan , Chihao Zhang , Shihua Zhang

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) are an attractive generative modeling technique, but they have been held back by limitations in their simulation-based maximum likelihood training. We introduce the generalized conditional flow matching…

Motivation: Structure-based drug design (SBDD) has advanced with deep generative models, but bridging the gap between continuous atomic coordinates and discrete atom types remains a challenge. Current approaches, such as diffusion and flow…

In recent years, point cloud generation has gained significant attention in 3D generative modeling. Among existing approaches, point-based methods directly generate point clouds without relying on other representations such as latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Petr Molodyk , Jaemoo Choi , David W. Romero , Ming-Yu Liu , Yongxin Chen

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

Generative models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving physics systems and modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamics. However, achieving high physical accuracy without incurring high computational cost remains a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiahe Huang , Sihan Xu , Sharvaree Vadgama , Rose Yu

Classifier-free guidance is a key component for enhancing the performance of conditional generative models across diverse tasks. While it has previously demonstrated remarkable improvements for the sample quality, it has only been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qinqing Zheng , Matt Le , Neta Shaul , Yaron Lipman , Aditya Grover , Ricky T. Q. Chen

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

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, offering faster sampling and simpler training by learning continuous flows governed by ordinary differential equations. Despite growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mudit Gaur , Prashant Trivedi , Shuchin Aeron , Amrit Singh Bedi , George K. Atia , Vaneet Aggarwal

We propose a principled and effective framework for one-step generative modeling. We introduce the notion of average velocity to characterize flow fields, in contrast to instantaneous velocity modeled by Flow Matching methods. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhengyang Geng , Mingyang Deng , Xingjian Bai , J. Zico Kolter , Kaiming He

Generative modeling typically concerns transporting a single source distribution to a target distribution via simple probability flows. However, in fields like computer graphics and single-cell genomics, samples themselves can be viewed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Doron Haviv , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Dana Pe'er , Brandon Amos

Flow matching casts sample generation as learning a continuous-time velocity field that transports noise to data. Existing flow matching networks typically predict each point's velocity independently, considering only its location and time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber