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Flow Matching (FM) is a recent generative modelling technique: we aim to learn how to sample from distribution $\mathfrak{X}_1$ by flowing samples from some distribution $\mathfrak{X}_0$ that is easy to sample from. The key trick is that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Finn M. Sherry , Bart M. N. Smets

We introduce Spectral Generative Flow Models (SGFMs), a physics-inspired alternative to transformer-based large language models. Instead of representing text or video as sequences of discrete tokens processed by attention, SGFMs treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Andrew Kiruluta

Fine-tuning flow matching models is a central challenge in settings with limited data, evolving distributions, or strict efficiency demands, where unconstrained fine-tuning can erode the accuracy and efficiency gains learned during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gudrun Thorkelsdottir , Arindam Banerjee

Diffusion- and flow-based models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative modeling approaches, but they require many sampling steps. Consistency models can distill these models into efficient one-step generators; however, unlike flow-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Amirmojtaba Sabour , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Generative models excel at motion synthesis for a fixed number of agents but struggle to generalize with variable agents. Based on limited, domain-specific data, existing methods employ autoregressive models to generate motion recursively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Guanhe Huang , Oya Celiktutan

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields that guide transformations from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Hertrich , Antonin Chambolle , Julie Delon

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

High-dimensional generative modeling is fundamentally a manifold-learning problem: real data concentrate near a low-dimensional structure embedded in the ambient space. Effective generators must therefore balance support fidelity -- placing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Xinyu Tian , Xiaotong Shen

Federated learning in vehicular edge networks faces major challenges in efficient resource allocation, largely due to high vehicle mobility and the presence of imperfect channel state information. Many existing methods oversimplify these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Metehan Karatas , Subhrakanti Dey , Christian Rohner , Jose Mairton Barros da Silva

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

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

Creating novel images by fusing visual cues from multiple sources is a fundamental yet underexplored problem in image-to-image generation, with broad applications in artistic creation, virtual reality and visual media. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zeren Xiong , Yue Yu , Zedong Zhang , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang , Jun Li

Planning is a critical component of end-to-end autonomous driving. However, prevailing imitation learning methods often suffer from mode collapse, failing to produce diverse trajectory hypotheses. Meanwhile, existing generative approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Lin Liu , Guanyi Yu , Ziying Song , Junqiao Li , Caiyan Jia , Feiyang Jia , Peiliang Wu , Yandan Luo

Simulation-free methods for training continuous-time generative models construct probability paths that go between noise distributions and individual data samples. Recent works, such as Flow Matching, derived paths that are optimal for each…

As a powerful technique in generative modeling, Flow Matching (FM) aims to learn velocity fields from noise to data, which is often explained and implemented as solving Optimal Transport (OT) problems. In this study, we bridge FM and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Angxiao Yue , Anqi Dong , Hongteng Xu

Large displacement optical flow is an integral part of many computer vision tasks. Variational optical flow techniques based on a coarse-to-fine scheme interpolate sparse matches and locally optimize an energy model conditioned on colour,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

Visually-guided acoustic highlighting seeks to rebalance audio in alignment with the accompanying video, creating a coherent audio-visual experience. While visual saliency and enhancement have been widely studied, acoustic highlighting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Hugo Malard , Gael Le Lan , Daniel Wong , David Lou Alon , Yi-Chiao Wu , Sanjeel Parekh

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

Data today is decentralized, generated and stored across devices and institutions where privacy, ownership, and regulation prevent centralization. This motivates the need to train generative models directly from distributed data locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zifan Wang , Anqi Dong , Mahmoud Selim , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

The simulation of high-energy physics collision events is a key element for data analysis at present and future particle accelerators. The comparison of simulation predictions to data allows looking for rare deviations that can be due to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-16 Francesco Vaselli , Filippo Cattafesta , Patrick Asenov , Andrea Rizzi