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Training-free conditional generation based on flow matching aims to leverage pre-trained unconditional flow matching models to perform conditional generation without retraining. Recently, a successful training-free conditional generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan , Kun Yue , Jian yin

High-fidelity Monte Carlo simulations and complex inverse problems, such as mapping smeared experimental observations to ground-truth states, are computationally intensive yet essential for robust data analysis. Conditional Flow Matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zeyu Xia , Tyler Kim , Trevor Reed , Judy Fox , Geoffrey Fox , Adam Szczepaniak

Diffusion models can learn rich representations during data generation, showing potential for Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), but they face a trade-off between generative quality and discriminative performance. Their iterative sampling also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kosuke Ukita , Tsuyoshi Okita

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

This article makes discrete masked models for the generative modeling of discrete data controllable. The goal is to generate samples of a discrete random variable that adheres to a posterior distribution, satisfies specific constraints, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wei Guo , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Yongxin Chen

Recent studies suggest utilizing generative models instead of traditional auto-regressive algorithms for time series forecasting (TSF) tasks. These non-auto-regressive approaches involving different generative methods, including GAN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jiangxuan Long , Zhao Song , Chiwun Yang

Generative modeling has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning, but its direct applicability to challenging fields like medical imaging remains limited: mere generation, without task alignment, fails to provide a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Luca Caldera , Giacomo Bottacini , Lara Cavinato

Recent diffusion and flow matching models have demonstrated strong capabilities in image generation and editing by progressively removing noise through iterative sampling. While this enables flexible inversion for semantic-preserving edits,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yasong Dai , Zeeshan Hayder , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Hongdong Li

Bifurcation phenomena in nonlinear dynamical systems often lead to multiple coexisting stable solutions, particularly in the presence of symmetry breaking. Deterministic machine learning models are unable to capture this multiplicity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Fleur Hendriks , Ondřej Rokoš , Martin Doškář , Marc G. D. Geers , Vlado Menkovski

Training-free guided generation is a widely used and powerful technique that allows the end user to exert further control over the generative process of flow/diffusion models. Generally speaking, two families of techniques have emerged for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zander W. Blasingame , Chen Liu

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) unifies conventional generative paradigms such as diffusion models and flow matching. Interaction Field Matching (IFM) is a newer framework that generalizes Electrostatic Field Matching (EFM) rooted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniil Shlenskii , Alexander Varlamov , Nazar Buzun , Alexander Korotin

Beyond estimating parameters of interest from data, one of the key goals of statistical inference is to properly quantify uncertainty in these estimates. In Bayesian inference, this uncertainty is provided by the posterior distribution, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daniela de Albuquerque , John Pearson

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides high-fidelity simulations of fluid flows but remains computationally expensive for many-query applications. In recent years deep learning (DL) has been used to construct data-driven fluid-dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 David Ramos , Lucas Lacasa , Fermín Gutiérrez , Eusebio Valero , Gonzalo Rubio

Energy-based models (EBMs) are a powerful class of probabilistic generative models due to their flexibility and interpretability. However, relationships between potential flows and explicit EBMs remain underexplored, while contrastive…

Controllable generation is one of the key requirements for successful adoption of deep generative models in real-world applications, but it still remains as a great challenge. In particular, the compositional ability to generate novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

We investigate large-scale latent variable models (LVMs) for neural story generation -- an under-explored application for open-domain long text -- with objectives in two threads: generation effectiveness and controllability. LVMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Le Fang , Tao Zeng , Chaochun Liu , Liefeng Bo , Wen Dong , Changyou Chen

Estimating an individual's counterfactual outcomes under interventions is a challenging task for traditional causal inference and supervised learning approaches when the outcome is high-dimensional (e.g. gene expressions, facial images) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yulun Wu , Louie McConnell , Claudia Iriondo

Fast and accurate generation of molecular conformers is desired for downstream computational chemistry and drug discovery tasks. Currently, training and sampling state-of-the-art diffusion or flow-based models for conformer generation…

Conditional visual generation has witnessed remarkable progress with the advent of diffusion models (DMs), especially in tasks like control-to-image generation. However, challenges such as expensive computational cost, high inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Xiang Li , Kai Qiu , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Flow matching has become a leading framework for generative modeling, but quantifying the uncertainty of its samples remains an open problem. Existing approaches retrain the model with auxiliary variance heads, maintain costly ensembles, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiarui Xing , Song Wang , Jian Wang