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Flow matching has emerged as a simulation-free alternative to diffusion-based generative modeling, producing samples by solving an ODE whose time-dependent velocity field is learned along an interpolation between a simple source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Shivam Kumar , Yixin Wang , Lizhen Lin

We propose Functional Flow Matching (FFM), a function-space generative model that generalizes the recently-introduced Flow Matching model to operate in infinite-dimensional spaces. Our approach works by first defining a path of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Gavin Kerrigan , Giosue Migliorini , Padhraic Smyth

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated impressive performance in novel view synthesis. However, NeRF and most of its variants still rely on traditional complex pipelines to provide extrinsic and intrinsic camera parameters, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Qingsong Yan , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Jie Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu , Fei Deng

Instance retrieval requires one to search for images that contain a particular object within a large corpus. Recent studies show that using image features generated by pooling convolutional layer feature maps (CFMs) of a pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Jiewei Cao , Lingqiao Liu , Peng Wang , Zi Huang , Chunhua Shen , Heng Tao Shen

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photorealism, image editing, and solving inverse problems, aided by classifier-free guidance and image inversion techniques. However, rectified flow models (RFMs) remain underexplored for these tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maitreya Patel , Song Wen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Yezhou Yang

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

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) unifies conventional generative paradigms such as diffusion models and flow matching. Interaction Field Matching (IFM) is a newer framework that generalizes Electrostatic Field Matching (EFM) rooted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniil Shlenskii , Alexander Varlamov , Nazar Buzun , Alexander Korotin

We are interested in learning generative models for complex geometries described via manifolds, such as spheres, tori, and other implicit surfaces. Current extensions of existing (Euclidean) generative models are restricted to specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Noam Rozen , Aditya Grover , Maximilian Nickel , Yaron Lipman

Normalizing flows are a powerful class of generative models demonstrating strong performance in several speech and vision problems. In contrast to other generative models, normalizing flows are latent variable models with tractable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Dmitry Baranchuk , Vladimir Aliev , Artem Babenko

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a principled and efficient alternative to diffusion models. Standard FM encourages the learned velocity field to follow a target direction; however, it may accumulate errors along the trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zong-Wei Hong , Jing-lun Li , Lin-Ze Li , Shen Zhang , Yao Tang

Regional climate information at kilometer scales is essential for assessing the impacts of climate change, but generating it with global climate models is too expensive due to their high computational costs. Machine learning models offer a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Kevin Debeire , Aytaç Paçal , Pierre Gentine , Luis Medrano-Navarro , Nils Thuerey , Veronika Eyring

The ability of Flow Matching (FM) to model complex conditional distributions has established it as the state-of-the-art for prediction tasks (e.g., robotics, weather forecasting). However, deployment in safety-critical settings is hindered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Constantinos Tsakonas , Serena Ivaldi , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Enhancing the efficiency of high-quality image generation using Diffusion Models (DMs) is a significant challenge due to the iterative nature of the process. Flow Matching (FM) is emerging as a powerful generative modeling paradigm based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Pascal Zwick , Nils Friederich , Maximilian Beichter , Lennart Hilbert , Ralf Mikut , Oliver Bringmann

The ribosome flow model (RFM) is a phenomenological model for the unidirectional flow of particles along a 1D chain of $n$ sites. The RFM has been extensively used to study the dynamics of ribosome flow along a single mRNA molecule during…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-09 Aliza Ehrman , Thomas Kriecherbauer , Lars Gruene , Michael Margaliot

Given an inverse problem with a normalizing flow prior, we wish to estimate the distribution of the underlying signal conditioned on the observations. We approach this problem as a task of conditional inference on the pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-16 Jay Whang , Erik M. Lindgren , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Convolution neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks of computing vision. However, CNN tends to bias to low frequency components. They prioritize capturing low frequency patterns which lead them fail when suffering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Weiyu Guo , Yidong Ouyang

Flow Matching (FM) models achieve remarkable results in generative tasks. Building upon diffusion models, FM's simulation-free training paradigm enables simplicity and efficiency but introduces a train-inference gap: model outputs cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhaoyi Li , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Shihua Li

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

We present a formulation of flow matching as variational inference, which we refer to as variational flow matching (VFM). Based on this formulation we develop CatFlow, a flow matching method for categorical data. CatFlow is easy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Floor Eijkelboom , Grigory Bartosh , Christian Andersson Naesseth , Max Welling , Jan-Willem van de Meent

Conventional diffusion models typically relies on a fixed forward process, which implicitly defines complex marginal distributions over latent variables. This can often complicate the reverse process' task in learning generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth