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Normalizing flows are powerful non-parametric statistical models that function as a hybrid between density estimators and generative models. Current learning algorithms for normalizing flows assume that data points are sampled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Matthias Kirchler , Christoph Lippert , Marius Kloft

Deep generative models provide state-of-the-art performance across a wide array of applications, with recent studies showing increasing applicability for science and engineering. Despite a growing corpus of literature focused on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jacob K. Christopher , James E. Warner , Ferdinando Fioretto

Equations of State model relations between thermodynamic variables and are ubiquitous in scientific modelling, appearing in modern day applications ranging from Astrophysics to Climate Science. The three desired properties of a general…

Determining the kinetic bottlenecks that make transitions between metastable states difficult is key to understanding important physical problems like crystallization, chemical reactions, or protein folding. In all these phenomena, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Peilin Kang , Enrico Trizio , Michele Parrinello

Many processes in chemistry and physics take place on timescales that cannot be explored using standard molecular dynamics simulations. This renders the use of enhanced sampling mandatory. Here we introduce an enhanced sampling method that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Jayashrita Debnath , Michele Parrinello

A popular way to plan trajectories in dynamic urban scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles is to rely on explicitly specified and hand crafted cost functions, coupled with random sampling in the trajectory space to find the minimum cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shubhankar Agarwal , Harshit Sikchi , Cole Gulino , Eric Wilkinson , Shivam Gautam

Real-world data is often assumed to lie within a low-dimensional structure embedded in high-dimensional space. In practical settings, we observe only a finite set of samples, forming what we refer to as the sample data subspace. It serves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Weiguo Gao , Ming Li

Flow and bridge matching are a novel class of processes which encompass diffusion models. One of the main aspect of their increased flexibility is that these models can interpolate between arbitrary data distributions i.e. they generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Valentin De Bortoli , Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Weilie Nie

State-space models are successfully used in many areas of science, engineering and economics to model time series and dynamical systems. We present a fully Bayesian approach to inference \emph{and learning} (i.e. state estimation and system…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-18 Roger Frigola , Fredrik Lindsten , Thomas B. Schön , Carl E. Rasmussen

We propose a framework for learning maps between probability distributions that broadly generalizes the time dynamics of flow and diffusion models. To enable this, we generalize stochastic interpolants by replacing the scalar time variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Hugo Negrel , Florentin Coeurdoux , Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

We study Variational Rectified Flow Matching, a framework that enhances classic rectified flow matching by modeling multi-modal velocity vector-fields. At inference time, classic rectified flow matching 'moves' samples from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Pengsheng Guo , Alexander G. Schwing

As tools for dynamic system modelling both conventional methods such as transfer function or state space representation and modern power flow based methods are available. The latter methods do not depend on energy domain, are able to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Gert-Helge Geitner , Guven Komurgoz

Flow Matching has limited ability in achieving one-step generation due to its reliance on learned curved trajectories. Previous studies have attempted to address this limitation by either modifying the coupling distribution to prevent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Yanning Shen

We examine the problem of learning mappings from state to state, suitable for use in a model-based reinforcement-learning setting, that simultaneously generalize to novel states and can capture stochastic transitions. We show that currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Yuhang Song , Christopher Grimm , Xianming Wang , Michael L. Littman

Normalizing flows are generative models that provide tractable density estimation via an invertible transformation from a simple base distribution to a complex target distribution. However, this technique cannot directly model data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-15 Brendan Leigh Ross , Jesse C. Cresswell

Fast and stable fluid simulations are an essential prerequisite for applications ranging from computer-generated imagery to computer-aided design in research and development. However, solving the partial differential equations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Nils Wandel , Michael Weinmann , Reinhard Klein

Normalizing flow (NF) has gained popularity over traditional maximum likelihood based methods due to its strong capability to model complex data distributions. However, the standard approach, which maps the observed data to a normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Hanze Dong , Shizhe Diao , Weizhong Zhang , Tong Zhang

It is understood that congestion in traffic can be interpreted in terms of the instability of the equation of dynamic motion. The evolution of a traffic system from an unstable or metastable state to a globally stable state bears a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Kai Lin , Romuel F. Machado , Yogiro Hama

We propose Flow Mismatching, an unsupervised anomaly detection method that deliberately avoids reconstruction-based paradigms. Instead, we treat flow matching as geometric dynamics and leverage a key insight: anomalies occur at places where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shengzhe Chen , Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar , Hao Yan

Biomolecular folding, at least in simple systems, can be described as a two state transition in a free energy landscape with two deep wells separated by a high barrier. Transition paths are the short part of the trajectories that cross the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-10 M. Laleman , E. Carlon , H. Orland