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Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful method for generative modeling on domains like images or videos, and even on irregular or unstructured data like 3D point clouds or even protein structures. These models are commonly trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuyang Wang , Anurag Ranjan , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful framework for realistic image generation by learning to reverse a corruption process that progressively adds Gaussian noise. However, because noise is injected in the latent domain, its impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sucheng Ren , Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a classical family of likelihood-based methods that have received revived attention. Recent efforts such as TARFlow have shown that NFs are capable of achieving promising performance on image modeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , David Berthelot , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

3D human reaction generation faces three main challenges:(1) high motion fidelity, (2) real-time inference, and (3) autoregressive adaptability for online scenarios. Existing methods fail to meet all three simultaneously. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zichen Geng , Zeeshan Hayder , Wei Liu , Hesheng Wang , Ajmal Mian

Diffusion models promise efficient parallel text generation but rely on bidirectional attention, creating a structural mismatch with pre-trained Autoregressive (AR) models. This incompatibility precludes reusing robust AR priors,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiangyu Ma , Teng Xiao , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang

Normalizing flows provide an elegant method for obtaining tractable density estimates from distributions by using invertible transformations. The main challenge is to improve the expressivity of the models while keeping the invertibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Avideep Mukherjee , Badri Narayan Patro , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Vector quantization (VQ) with autoregressive (AR) token modeling is a widely adopted and highly competitive paradigm for time-series generation. However, such models are fundamentally limited by exposure bias: during inference, errors can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Li , Shibo Feng , Pengcheng Wu , Xingyu Gao , Min Wu , Peilin Zhao

Forecasting neural activity in response to naturalistic stimuli remains a key challenge for understanding brain dynamics and enabling downstream neurotechnological applications. Here, we introduce a generative forecasting framework for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-14 Nicole Rogalla , Yuzhen Qin , Mario Senden , Ahmed El-Gazzar , Marcel van Gerven

Flow-based generation in high-dimensional spaces is difficult because velocity prediction requires modeling high-dimensional noise, even when data has strong low-rank structure. We present Asymmetric Flow Modeling (AsymFlow), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hansheng Chen , Jan Ackermann , Minseo Kim , Gordon Wetzstein , Leonidas Guibas

Despite tremendous recent progress, Flow Matching methods still suffer from exposure bias due to discrepancies in training and inference. This paper investigates the root causes of exposure bias in Flow Matching, including: (1) the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Guanbo Huang , Jingjia Mao , Fanding Huang , Fengkai Liu , Xiangyang Luo , Yaoyuan Liang , Jiasheng Lu , Xiaoe Wang , Pei Liu , Ruiliu Fu , Shao-Lun Huang

Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in both image and video generation while still suffering from huge computation costs. As an effective solution, flow matching aims to reflow the diffusion process of diffusion models into…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lei Ke , Haohang Xu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Li , Jiajun Li , Haoling Li , Yuxuan Lin , Dongsheng Jiang , Yujiu Yang , Linfeng Zhang

Mean flow (MeanFlow) enables efficient, high-fidelity image generation, yet its single-function evaluation (1-NFE) generation often cannot yield compelling results. We address this issue by introducing RMFlow, an efficient multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Shih-Hsin Wang , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Bao Wang

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image deblurring poses significant challenges for UHD restoration methods, which must balance fine-grained detail recovery and practical inference efficiency. Although prominent discriminative and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yucheng Xin , Dawei Zhao , Xiang Chen , Chen Wu , Pu Wang , Dianjie Lu , Guijuan Zhang , Xiuyi Jia , Zhuoran Zheng

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are likelihood-based models for continuous inputs. They have demonstrated promising results on both density estimation and generative modeling tasks, but have received relatively little attention in recent years. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shuangfei Zhai , Ruixiang Zhang , Preetum Nakkiran , David Berthelot , Jiatao Gu , Huangjie Zheng , Tianrong Chen , Miguel Angel Bautista , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind

Flow-based methods have demonstrated promising results in addressing the ill-posed nature of super-resolution (SR) by learning the distribution of high-resolution (HR) images with the normalizing flow. However, these methods can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Jie-En Yao , Li-Yuan Tsao , Yi-Chen Lo , Roy Tseng , Chia-Che Chang , Chun-Yi Lee

We present UniFluid, a unified autoregressive framework for joint visual generation and understanding leveraging continuous visual tokens. Our unified autoregressive architecture processes multimodal image and text inputs, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lijie Fan , Luming Tang , Siyang Qin , Tianhong Li , Xuan Yang , Siyuan Qiao , Andreas Steiner , Chen Sun , Yuanzhen Li , Tao Zhu , Michael Rubinstein , Michalis Raptis , Deqing Sun , Radu Soricut

Flow-based latent generative models such as Stable Diffusion 3 are able to generate images with remarkable quality, even enabling photorealistic text-to-image generation. Their impressive performance suggests that these models should also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Julius Erbach , Dominik Narnhofer , Andreas Dombos , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen , Konrad Schindler

We introduce CAFLOW, a new diverse image-to-image translation model that simultaneously leverages the power of auto-regressive modeling and the modeling efficiency of conditional normalizing flows. We transform the conditioning image into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Georgios Batzolis , Marcello Carioni , Christian Etmann , Soroosh Afyouni , Zoe Kourtzi , Carola Bibiane Schönlieb

We present NextFlow, a unified decoder-only autoregressive transformer trained on 6 trillion interleaved text-image discrete tokens. By leveraging a unified vision representation within a unified autoregressive architecture, NextFlow…

Despite significant progress in deep learning-based optical flow methods, accurately estimating large displacements and repetitive patterns remains a challenge. The limitations of local features and similarity search patterns used in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Navid Eslami , Farnoosh Arefi , Amir M. Mansourian , Shohreh Kasaei