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Flow-based generative models are an important class of exact inference models that admit efficient inference and sampling for image synthesis. Owing to the efficiency constraints on the design of the flow layers, e.g. split coupling flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Shweta Mahajan , Apratim Bhattacharyya , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele , Stefan Roth

Advances in language modeling have led to the development of deep attention-based models that are performant across a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) problems. These language models are typified by a pre-training process…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Joseph F DeRose , Jiayao Wang , Matthew Berger

While image generation techniques are now capable of producing high-quality images that respect prompts which span multiple sentences, the task of text-guided image editing remains a challenge. Even edit requests that consist of only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Saba Ahmadi , Rabiul Awal , Ankur Sikarwar , Amirhossein Kazemnejad , Ge Ya Luo , Juan A. Rodriguez , Sai Rajeswar , Siva Reddy , Christopher Pal , Benno Krojer , Aishwarya Agrawal

Neural sequence-to-sequence models are finding increasing use in editing of documents, for example in correcting a text document or repairing source code. In this paper, we argue that common seq2seq models (with a facility to copy single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sheena Panthaplackel , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

Flow-based generative models, conceptually attractive due to tractability of both the exact log-likelihood computation and latent-variable inference, and efficiency of both training and sampling, has led to a number of impressive empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xuezhe Ma , Xiang Kong , Shanghang Zhang , Eduard Hovy

Diffusion and flow-based models have become the de facto approaches for generating continuous data, e.g., in domains such as images and videos. Their success has attracted growing interest in applying them to language modeling. Unlike their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Keya Hu , Linlu Qiu , Yiyang Lu , Hanhong Zhao , Tianhong Li , Yoon Kim , Jacob Andreas , Kaiming He

Combining discrete and continuous data is an important capability for generative models. We present Discrete Flow Models (DFMs), a new flow-based model of discrete data that provides the missing link in enabling flow-based generative models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-07 Andrew Campbell , Jason Yim , Regina Barzilay , Tom Rainforth , Tommi Jaakkola

Normalizing flows and variational autoencoders are powerful generative models that can represent complicated density functions. However, they both impose constraints on the models: Normalizing flows use bijective transformations to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Didrik Nielsen , Priyank Jaini , Emiel Hoogeboom , Ole Winther , Max Welling

Autoregressive language models are the currently dominant paradigm for text generation, but they have some fundamental limitations that cannot be remedied by scale-for example inherently sequential and unidirectional generation. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuchen Li , Alexandre Kirchmeyer , Aashay Mehta , Yilong Qin , Boris Dadachev , Kishore Papineni , Sanjiv Kumar , Andrej Risteski

Standard autoregressive language models generate text by repeatedly selecting a discrete next token, coupling prediction with irreversible commitment at every step. We show that token selection is not the only viable autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Oshri Naparstek

Self-modulating mechanisms introduce dynamic adaptation capabilities within language models through contextual realignment strategies that influence token embedding trajectories across extended sequences. Contextual Flux is explored as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Henry Evidail , Zachary Mountebank , Alistair Hathersage , Peter Stanhope , Basil Ravenscroft , Tobias Waddingham

Robotic manipulation in unstructured environments requires the generation of robust and long-horizon trajectory-level policy with conditions of perceptual observations and benefits from the advantages of SE(3)-equivariant diffusion models…

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With recent advancements in large-scale pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models, training-free image editing methods have demonstrated remarkable success. Typically, these methods involve adding noise to a clean image via an inversion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Desong Yang , Mang Ye

Generative models using neural network have opened a door to large-scale studies for various application domains, especially for studies that suffer from lack of real samples to obtain statistically robust inference. Typically, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Seong Jae Hwang , Zirui Tao , Won Hwa Kim , Vikas Singh

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as a promising family of generative models, enabling a wide range of downstream vision tasks such as text-guided image editing. By shifting the editing paradigm from noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tao Xia , Jiawei Liu , Yukun Zhang , Ting Liu , Wei Wang , Lei Zhang

Autoregressive conditional image generation algorithms are capable of generating photorealistic images that are consistent with given textual or image conditions, and have great potential for a wide range of applications. Nevertheless, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Qiaoying Qu , Shiyu Shen

Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) aims to infer extinct protein sequences at internal nodes of a phylogenetic tree. Classical ASR methods are typically based on continuous-time Markov substitution models, but they treat sites largely…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-07 Emil Sharafutdinov , Ingemar André

Generative modeling techniques such as Diffusion and Flow Matching have achieved significant successes in generating designable and diverse protein backbones. However, many current models are computationally expensive, requiring hundreds or…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-30 Junhua Chen , Simon Mathis , Charles Harris , Kieran Didi , Pietro Lio

MeanFlow (MF) has recently been established as a framework for one-step generative modeling. However, its ``fastforward'' nature introduces key challenges in both the training objective and the guidance mechanism. First, the original MF's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhengyang Geng , Yiyang Lu , Zongze Wu , Eli Shechtman , J. Zico Kolter , Kaiming He

Training-free image editing has attracted increasing attention for its efficiency and independence from training data. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on inversion-reconstruction trajectories, which impose an inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Menglin Han , Zhangkai Ni