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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

Generative models excel at synthesizing high-fidelity samples from complex data distributions, but they often violate hard constraints arising from physical laws or task specifications. A common remedy is to project intermediate samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jinhao Liang , Yixuan Sun , Anirban Samaddar , Sandeep Madireddy , Ferdinando Fioretto

Consistency Models (CMs) have made significant progress in accelerating the generation of diffusion models. However, their application to high-resolution, text-conditioned image generation in the latent space remains unsatisfactory. In this…

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a powerful approach for high-quality visual generation. However, their prohibitively slow inference due to a large number of denoising steps limits their potential use in real-time or interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Shubham Agarwal , Apoorv Saxena , Kuldeep Kulkarni , Subrata Mitra , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Despite rapid improvements in the performance of central processing unit (CPU), the calculation cost of simulating chemically reacting flow using CFD remains infeasible in many cases. The application of the convolutional neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Joongoo Jeon , Juhyeong Lee , Sung Joong Kim

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks through high-fidelity outputs, yet flow matching (FM) offers faster inference and empirical performance gains. However, current foundation FM models are computationally prohibitive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Frank Fundel , Björn Ommer

Standard flow matching scales well but typically relies on an unstructured source distribution, limiting its ability to learn interpretable latent structure. Latent-variable models, by contrast, capture structure but often sacrifice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xavier Sumba , Carles Balsells-Rodas , Yingzhen Li

We propose FlowAnchor, a training-free framework for stable and efficient inversion-free, flow-based video editing. Inversion-free editing methods have recently shown impressive efficiency and structure preservation in images by directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ze Chen , Lan Chen , Yuanhang Li , Qi Mao

The detection of anomalies in non-stationary time-series streams is a critical but challenging task across numerous industrial and scientific domains. Traditional models, trained offline, suffer significant performance degradation when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ashok Devireddy , Shunping Huang

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

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

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

In this work, we show that Latent Flow-Matching (LFM) models are robust to different types of perturbations, including data reduction and model capacity shrinkage. We characterize this stability by their tendency to generate similar outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rania Briq , Michael Kamp , Ohad Fried , Sarel Cohen , Stefan Kesselheim

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to grow in complexity with Large Language Models (LLMs) incorporating vast numbers of parameters. Handling these parameters efficiently in traditional accelerators is limited by data-transmission…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Swastik Bhattacharya , Sanjay Das , Anand Menon , Shamik Kundu , Arnab Raha , Kanad Basu

Continuous diffusion and flow matching models could represent a powerful alternative to autoregressive approaches for language modelling (LM), as they unlock a host of advantages currently reserved for continuous modalities, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Oscar Davis , Anastasiia Filippova , Pierre Ablin , Victor Turrisi , Amitis Shidani , Marco Cuturi , Louis Béthune

Generating high-quality time-series data is challenging because real-world signals often exhibit multimodal patterns and multiscale dynamics, including oscillations and high-frequency variations. Flow Matching (FM) offers an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junru Zhang , Lang Feng , Jinbo Wang , Xu Guo , Yucheng Wang , Han Yu , Min Wu , Yabo Dong , Duanqing Xu

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

Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is crucial for adapting to the complex open-world environments. Contemporary prospective learning-based space construction methods struggle to balance old and new knowledge, as prototype bias and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Qinzhe Wang , Zixuan Chen , Keke Huang , Xiu Su , Chunhua Yang , Chang Xu

We present FlowLM, a flow matching language model transformed from pre-trained diffusion language models via efficient fine-tuning. By re-aligning the curved sampling trajectories of diffusion models into straight-line flows, FlowLM enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Runzhe Zhang , Letian Chen , Wenpeng Zhang , Zhouhan Lin , Peilin Zhao

Two fundamental problems in unsupervised learning are efficient inference for latent-variable models and robust density estimation based on large amounts of unlabeled data. Algorithms for the two tasks, such as normalizing flows and…

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