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Strong semantic representations improve the convergence and generation quality of diffusion and flow models. Existing approaches largely rely on external models, which require separate training, operate on misaligned objectives, and exhibit…

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Generative models like Flow Matching have achieved state-of-the-art performance but are often hindered by a computationally expensive iterative sampling process. To address this, recent work has focused on few-step or one-step generation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yi Guo , Wei Wang , Zhihang Yuan , Rong Cao , Kuan Chen , Zhengyang Chen , Yuanyuan Huo , Yang Zhang , Yuping Wang , Shouda Liu , Yuxuan Wang

Sampling from unnormalized densities presents a fundamental challenge with wide-ranging applications, from posterior inference to molecular dynamics simulations. Continuous flow-based neural samplers offer a promising approach, learning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wuhao Chen , Zijing Ou , Yingzhen Li

Sampling from high-dimensional distributions is a fundamental problem in statistical research and practice. However, great challenges emerge when the target density function is unnormalized and contains isolated modes. We tackle this…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-11 Yixuan Qiu , Xiao Wang

Accurate and efficient fluid flow models are essential for applications relating to many physical phenomena including geophysical, aerodynamic, and biological systems. While these flows may exhibit rich and multiscale dynamics, in many…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-27 Benjamin D. Shaffer , Jeremy R. Vorenberg , M. Ani Hsieh

Learning latent actions from large-scale videos is crucial for the pre-training of scalable embodied foundation models, yet existing methods often struggle with action-irrelevant distractors. Although incorporating action supervision can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xizhou Bu , Jiexi Lyu , Fulei Sun , Ruichen Yang , Zhiqiang Ma , Wei Li

Flow-based generative modeling in continuous spaces exploit Tweedie's formula to express the denoiser (learned in training) as a score function (used in sampling). In contrast, this relation has been largely missing in the discrete setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yair Shenfeld , Ricardo Baptista , Stefano Peluchetti

We present a generative modeling framework for synthesizing physically feasible two-dimensional incompressible flows under arbitrary obstacle geometries and boundary conditions. Whereas existing diffusion-based flow generators either ignore…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Noah Trupin , Rahul Ghosh , Aadi Jangid

Understanding the world around us and making decisions about the future is a critical component to human intelligence. As autonomous systems continue to develop, their ability to reason about the future will be the key to their success.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Adam M. Terwilliger , Garrick Brazil , Xiaoming Liu

We introduce TzK (pronounced "task"), a conditional probability flow-based model that exploits attributes (e.g., style, class membership, or other side information) in order to learn tight conditional prior around manifolds of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Micha Livne , David J. Fleet

This paper introduces equivariant hamiltonian flows, a method for learning expressive densities that are invariant with respect to a known Lie-algebra of local symmetry transformations while providing an equivariant representation of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Danilo Jimenez Rezende , Sébastien Racanière , Irina Higgins , Peter Toth

Accurate perception of dynamic traffic scenes is crucial for high-level autonomous driving systems, requiring robust object motion estimation and instance segmentation. However, traditional methods often treat them as separate tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yinqi Chen , Meiying Zhang , Qi Hao , Guang Zhou

Reduced-order modelling and system identification can help us figure out the elementary degrees of freedom and the underlying mechanisms from the high-dimensional and nonlinear dynamics of fluid flow. Machine learning has brought new…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-13 Nan Deng , Luc R. Pastur , Bernd R. Noack

Multi-task learning for dense prediction is limited by the need for extensive annotation for every task, though recent works have explored training with partial task labels. Leveraging the generalization power of diffusion models, we extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anh-Quan Cao , Ivan Lopes , Raoul de Charette

The presence of missing values within high-dimensional data is an ubiquitous problem for many applied sciences. A serious limitation of many available data mining and machine learning methods is their inability to handle partially missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qi Ma , Sujit K. Ghosh

A normalizing flow models a complex probability density as an invertible transformation of a simple base density. Flows based on either coupling or autoregressive transforms both offer exact density evaluation and sampling, but rely on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Conor Durkan , Artur Bekasov , Iain Murray , George Papamakarios

Generative models have achieved remarkable progress with the emergence of flow matching (FM). It has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and attracted significant attention as a simulation-free flow-based framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Hoang Anh Nguyen Kim , Toan Nguyen Hai , Long Tran Quoc

Modern diffusion/flow-based models for image generation typically exhibit two core characteristics: (i) using multi-step sampling, and (ii) operating in a latent space. Recent advances have made encouraging progress on each aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yiyang Lu , Susie Lu , Qiao Sun , Hanhong Zhao , Zhicheng Jiang , Xianbang Wang , Tianhong Li , Zhengyang Geng , Kaiming He

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, with a training objective that makes them approximately sample in proportion to a given reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoshua Bengio , Salem Lahlou , Tristan Deleu , Edward J. Hu , Mo Tiwari , Emmanuel Bengio

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