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Step distillation has become a leading technique for accelerating diffusion models, among which Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) and Consistency Distillation are two representative paradigms. While consistency methods enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tao Liu , Hao Yan , Mengting Chen , Taihang Hu , Zhengrong Yue , Zihao Pan , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Zheng , Yaxing Wang

Recently, flow-based generative models have shown superior efficiency compared to diffusion models. In this paper, we study rectified flow models, which constrain transport trajectories to be linear from the base distribution to the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hari Krishna Sahoo , Mudit Gaur , Vaneet Aggarwal

Channel estimation is a fundamental challenge in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, where estimation accuracy governs the spectral efficiency and link reliability. In this work, we introduce Recursive Flow (RC-Flow), a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zehua Jiang , Fenghao Zhu , Chongwen Huang , Richeng Jin , Zhaohui Yang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah

Mask-based Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) struggle to revise incorrect tokens: once a token is generated, it typically remains fixed. The key challenge is to identify potential errors in the inputs. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zemin Huang , Yuhang Wang , Zhiyang Chen , Guo-Jun Qi

Building LiDAR generative models holds promise as powerful data priors for restoration, scene manipulation, and scalable simulation in autonomous mobile robots. In recent years, approaches using diffusion models have emerged, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kazuto Nakashima , Xiaowen Liu , Tomoya Miyawaki , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume

Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free method for learning a continuous and invertible flow to interpolate between two distributions, and in particular to generate data from noise. Inspired by the variational nature of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

This paper introduces a discrete diffusion model (DDM) framework for text-aligned speech tokenization and reconstruction. By replacing the auto-regressive speech decoder with a discrete diffusion counterpart, our model achieves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Pin-Jui Ku , He Huang , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Zhehuai Chen , Ante Jukić

We present a comprehensive comparative study of three generative modeling paradigms: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM), Conditional Flow Matching (CFM), and MeanFlow. While DDPM and CFM require iterative sampling, MeanFlow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Umang Agarwal , Rudraksh Sangore , Sumit Laddha

Image enhancement holds extensive applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and limitations of imaging devices. Conventional methods are often constrained by their tailored models, resulting in diminished robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yixuan Zhu , Wenliang Zhao , Ao Li , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) aims to localise changes between two images of the same geographic region. In practice, change masks often follow region-level annotation conventions rather than purely local appearance differences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Blaž Rolih , Matic Fučka , Filip Wolf , Luka Čehovin Zajc

Although the diffusion model has achieved remarkable performance in the field of image generation, its high inference delay hinders its wide application in edge devices with scarce computing resources. Therefore, many training-free sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

Diversified distribution matching (DDM) finds a unified translation function mapping a diverse collection of conditional source distributions to their target counterparts. DDM was proposed to resolve content misalignment issues in unpaired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sagar Shrestha , Xiao Fu

We introduce Time-Conditioned Contraction Matching (TCCM), a novel method for semi-supervised anomaly detection in tabular data. TCCM is inspired by flow matching, a recent generative modeling framework that learns velocity fields between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Yuxuan Zhu , Lincen Yang , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Niki van Stein , Matthijs van Leeuwen

While generative modeling has achieved remarkable success on tasks like natural language-conditioned image generation, enabling model adaptation from example data points remains a relatively underexplored and challenging problem. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tyler Ingebrand , Ruihan Zhao , Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

The Reflow operation aims to straighten the inference trajectories of the rectified flow during training by constructing deterministic couplings between noises and images, thereby improving the quality of generated images in single-step or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jimin Dai , Jiexi Yan , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

Diffusion policies have achieved great success in online reinforcement learning (RL) due to their strong expressive capacity. However, the inference of diffusion policy models relies on a slow iterative sampling process, which limits their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Tianyi Chen , Haitong Ma , Na Li , Kai Wang , Bo Dai

Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly growing ability to generate coherent natural language, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Michael Cardei , Jacob K Christopher , Thomas Hartvigsen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ferdinando Fioretto

Rectified-Flow (RF)-based generative models have recently emerged as strong alternatives to traditional diffusion models, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. By learning a continuous velocity field that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Chenru Wang , Beier Zhu , Chi Zhang

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Qianli Ma , Zhi Yao , Weijia Jia

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang