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High-fidelity modeling of turbulent flows requires capturing complex spatiotemporal dynamics and multi-scale intermittency, posing a fundamental challenge for traditional knowledge-based systems. While deep generative models, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Li Kunpeng , Wan Chenguang , Qu Zhisong , Lim Kyungtak , Virginie Grandgirard , Xavier Garbet , Yu Hua , Ong Yew Soon

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…

Despite their popularity, to date, the application of normalizing flows on categorical data stays limited. The current practice of using dequantization to map discrete data to a continuous space is inapplicable as categorical data has no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Phillip Lippe , Efstratios Gavves

Physics-constrained generative modeling aims to produce high-dimensional samples that are both physically consistent and distributionally accurate, a task that remains challenging due to often conflicting optimization objectives. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Giacomo Baldan , Qiang Liu , Alberto Guardone , Nils Thuerey

Flow Matching is a powerful framework for learning transport maps between probability distributions. Yet its standard single-parameter formulation is not designed to capture multi-parameter variations where the resulting transport should be…

Flow matching has emerged as a promising framework for training generative models, demonstrating impressive empirical performance while offering relative ease of training compared to diffusion-based models. However, this method still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Trung Dao , Dimitris Metaxas , Anh Tran

We introduce $\texttt{PairFlow}$, a lightweight preprocessing step for training Discrete Flow Models (DFMs) to achieve few-step sampling without requiring a pretrained teacher. DFMs have recently emerged as a new class of generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingue Park , Jisung Hwang , Seungwoo Yoo , Kyeongmin Yeo , Minhyuk Sung

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are \emph{discriminative models} that directly model the class posterior $p(y|\mathbf{x})$ for semi-supervised classification of graph data. While being effective, as a representation learning approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tianchun Wang , Farzaneh Mirzazadeh , Xiang Zhang , Jie Chen

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) are a fundamental representation in robot motion planning. Their configuration-space counterpart, the Configuration Space Distance Field (CDF), directly encodes distances in joint space, offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mengzhu Li , Yunyu Zhou , He Ying , F. Richard Yu

Diffusion Bridge and Flow Matching have both demonstrated compelling empirical performance in transformation between arbitrary distributions. However, there remains confusion about which approach is generally preferable, and the substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kaizhen Zhu , Mokai Pan , Zhechuan Yu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Many dynamical systems can be described in terms of structured flows combining source/sink behavior, cyclic dynamics, and topology-constrained transport. These features arise across a wide range of domains, including physical, engineered,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego Casadei

The efficient construction of accurate channel knowledge maps (CKMs) is crucial for unleashing the full potential of environment-aware wireless networks, yet it remains a difficult ill-posed problem due to the sparsity of available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ziyu Huang , Yong Zeng , Shen Fu , Xiaoli Xu , Hongyang Du

While denoising diffusion and flow matching have driven major advances in generative modeling, their application to tabular data remains limited, despite its ubiquity in real-world applications. To this end, we develop TabbyFlow, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Andrés Guzmán-Cordero , Floor Eijkelboom , Jan-Willem van de Meent

Flow-based generative models are powerful exact likelihood models with efficient sampling and inference. Despite their computational efficiency, flow-based models generally have much worse density modeling performance compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ho , Xi Chen , Aravind Srinivas , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel

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

Energy based models (EBMs) are appealing for their generality and simplicity in data likelihood modeling, but have conventionally been difficult to train due to the unstable and time-consuming implicit MCMC sampling during contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Junn Yong Loo , Michelle Adeline , Arghya Pal , Vishnu Monn Baskaran , Chee-Ming Ting , Raphael C. -W. Phan

Discrete diffusion and flow matching models capture complex, non-additive and non-autoregressive structure in high-dimensional objective landscapes through parallel, iterative refinement. However, their implicit generative nature precludes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yashvir S. Grewal , Daniel M. Steinberg , Thang D. Bui , Cheng Soon Ong , Edwin V. Bonilla

We propose Shallow Flow Matching (SFM), a novel mechanism that enhances flow matching (FM)-based text-to-speech (TTS) models within a coarse-to-fine generation paradigm. Unlike conventional FM modules, which use the coarse representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Dong Yang , Yiyi Cai , Yuki Saito , Lixu Wang , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Recent progress in large-scale flow and diffusion models raised two fundamental algorithmic challenges: (i) control-based reward adaptation of pre-trained flows, and (ii) integration of multiple models, i.e., flow merging. While current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Riccardo De Santi , Malte Franke , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Andreas Krause

In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical comparison of diffusion and flow matching under the Generator Matching framework. Despite their apparent differences, both diffusion and flow matching can be viewed under the unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zeeshan Patel , James DeLoye , Lance Mathias