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We consider the problem of designing constraint-aware flow matching (FM) models that address the issue of constraint violations commonly observed in vanilla generative models. We consider two scenarios, viz.: (a) when a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zhengyan Huan , Jacob Boerma , Li-Ping Liu , Shuchin Aeron

Traditional discriminative computer vision relies predominantly on static projections, mapping input features to outputs in a single computational step. Although efficient, this paradigm lacks the iterative refinement and robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Om Govind Jha , Manoj Bamniya , Ayon Borthakur

Recently, Flow Matching models have pushed the boundaries of high-fidelity data generation across a wide range of domains. It typically employs a single large network to learn the entire generative trajectory from noise to data. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Dogyun Park , Taehoon Lee , Minseok Joo , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Flow matching has emerged as a promising generative approach that addresses the lengthy sampling times associated with state-of-the-art diffusion models and enables a more flexible trajectory design, while maintaining high-quality image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Arnela Hadzic , Franz Thaler , Lea Bogensperger , Simon Johannes Joham , Martin Urschler

Flow-based models have proven successful for time-series generation, particularly when defined in lower-dimensional latent spaces that enable efficient sampling. However, how to design latent representations with desirable equivariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Camilo Carvajal Reyes , Felipe Tobar

Aligning diffusion model outputs with downstream objectives is essential for improving task-specific performance. Broadly, inference-time training-free approaches for aligning diffusion models can be categorized into two main strategies:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Maurya Goyal , Anuj Singh , Hadi Jamali-Rad

Generative modelling has seen significant advances through simulation-free paradigms such as Flow Matching, and in particular, the MeanFlow framework, which replaces instantaneous velocity fields with average velocities to enable efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yang Cao , Yubin Chen , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

The importance of mobile phone GPS trajectory data is widely recognized across many fields, yet the use of real data is often hindered by privacy concerns, limited accessibility, and high acquisition costs. As a result, generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Peiran Li , Jiawei Wang , Haoran Zhang , Xiaodan Shi , Noboru Koshizuka , Chihiro Shimizu , Renhe Jiang

Generative flow and diffusion models provide the continuous, multimodal action distributions needed for high-precision robotic policies. However, their reliance on iterative sampling introduces severe inference latency, degrading control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Shaolong Li , Lichao Sun , Yongchao Chen

Robot manipulation has increasingly adopted data-driven generative policy frameworks, yet the field faces a persistent trade-off: diffusion models suffer from high inference latency, while flow-based methods often require complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Han Fang , Yize Huang , Yuheng Zhao , Paul Weng , Xiao Li , Yutong Ban

Generative models have shown great promise as trajectory planners, given their affinity to modeling complex distributions and guidable inference process. Previous works have successfully applied these in the context of robotic manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reece O'Mahoney , Wanming Yu , Ioannis Havoutis

Dynamic obstacle avoidance is a challenging topic for optimal control and optimization-based trajectory planning problems. Many existing works use Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) to enforce safety constraints for control systems. CBFs are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Shuo Liu , Yihui Mao , Calin A. Belta

In image restoration, single-step discriminative mappings often lack fine details via expectation learning, whereas generative paradigms suffer from inefficient multi-step sampling and noise-residual coupling. To address this dilemma, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Jie Xiao , Dong Li , Jie Huang , Xueyang Fu

Despite the remarkable success of sampling-based generative models such as flow matching, they can still produce samples of inconsistent or degraded quality. To assess sample reliability and generate higher-quality outputs, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Juyeop Han , Lukas Lao Beyer , Sertac Karaman

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to generate safe and plausible planning policies from raw sensor input. Driving world models have shown great potential in learning rich representations by predicting the future evolution of a driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingtai Gui , Meijie Zhang , Tianyi Yan , Wencheng Han , Jiahao Gong , Feiyang Tan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

We survey continuous-time generative modeling methods based on transporting a simple reference distribution to a data distribution via stochastic or deterministic dynamics. We present a unified framework in which diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal

Sampling-based model predictive controllers generate trajectories by sampling control inputs from a fixed, simple distribution such as the normal or uniform distributions. This sampling method yields trajectory samples that are tightly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 O. Goktug Poyrazoglu , Rahul Moorthy , Yukang Cao , William Chastek , Volkan Isler

This paper presents a novel feedback method on the motion planning for unicycle robots in environments with static obstacles, along with an extension to the distributed planning and coordination in multi-robot systems. The method employs a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Dimitra Panagou

Recent advancements in generative video models demonstrate high visual fidelity, yet their integration into enterprise environments is restricted by temporal inconsistencies and severe brand misalignment. Current monolithic architectures…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Debanshu Das , Lavi Nigam , Sunil Kumar Jang Bahadur , Gopala Dhar

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