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Inverse problems occur in a variety of parameter identification tasks in engineering. Such problems are challenging in practice, as they require repeated evaluation of computationally expensive forward models. We introduce a unifying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Simon Weissmann , Ashia Wilson , Jakob Zech

We propose injective generative models called Trumpets that generalize invertible normalizing flows. The proposed generators progressively increase dimension from a low-dimensional latent space. We demonstrate that Trumpets can be trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Konik Kothari , AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh , Maarten de Hoop , Ivan Dokmanić

The success of a specific neural network architecture is closely tied to the dataset and task it tackles; there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Thus, considerable efforts have been made to quickly and accurately estimate the performances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Dongyeong Hwang , Hyunju Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Kijung Shin

Estimating three-dimensional conformations of a molecular graph allows insight into the molecule's biological and chemical functions. Fast generation of valid conformations is thus central to molecular modeling. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

We investigate the inverse scale space flow as a decomposition method for decomposing data into generalised singular vectors. We show that the inverse scale space flow, based on convex and absolutely one-homogeneous regularisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Marie Foged Schmidt , Martin Benning , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This study presents a conditional flow matching framework for solving physics-constrained Bayesian inverse problems. In this setting, samples from the joint distribution of inferred variables and measurements are assumed available, while…

Imaging inverse problems can be solved in an unsupervised manner using pre-trained diffusion models, but doing so requires approximating the gradient of the measurement-conditional score function in the diffusion reverse process. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Matt C. Bendel , Saurav K. Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

Rectified flow models have become a de facto standard in image generation due to their stable sampling trajectories and high-fidelity outputs. Despite their strong generative capabilities, they face critical limitations in image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sung-Hoon Yoon , Minghan Li , Gaspard Beaudouin , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Rafay Azhar , Mengyu Wang

A new sampling method for inverse scattering problems is proposed to process far field data of one incident wave. As the linear sampling method, the method sets up ill-posed integral equations and uses the (approximate) solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Juan Liu , Jiguang Sun

The inverse scattering problem, whose goal is to reconstruct an unknown scattering object from its scattered wave, is essential in fundamental wave physics and its wide applications in imaging sciences. However, it remains challenging to…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-08 Moosung Lee , Herve Hugonnet , YongKeun Park

We introduce a method for reconstructing an infinitesimal normalizing flow given only an infinitesimal change to a (possibly unnormalized) probability distribution. This reverses the conventional task of normalizing flows -- rather than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-04 David Pfau , Danilo Rezende

This paper proposes a new mathematical formulation for flow measurement based on the inverse source problem for wave equations with partial boundary measurement. Inspired by the design of acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Jiwei Li , Lingyun Qiu , Zhongjing Wang , Hui Yu

Reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for aligning diffusion and flow-matching models with human preferences, yet practitioners face fragmented codebases, model-specific implementations, and engineering complexity. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bowen Ping , Chengyou Jia , Minnan Luo , Hangwei Qian , Ivor Tsang

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields that guide transformations from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Hertrich , Antonin Chambolle , Julie Delon

Inverse problems are central to a wide range of fields, including healthcare, climate science, and agriculture. They involve the estimation of inputs, typically via iterative optimization, to some known forward model so that it produces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sean Memery , Kevin Denamganai , Anna Kapron-King , Kartic Subr

Column generation is often used to solve multi-commodity flow problems. A program for column generation always includes a module that solves a linear equation. In this paper, we address three major issues in solving linear problem during…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Liyun Dai , Hengjun Zhao , Zhiming Liu

Deep homography estimation has broad applications in computer vision and robotics. Remarkable progresses have been achieved while the existing methods typically treat it as a direct regression or iterative refinement problem and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mengfan He , Liangzheng Sun , Chunyu Li , Ziyang Meng

Learning the inverse dynamics of soft continuum robots remains challenging due to high-dimensional nonlinearities and complex actuation coupling. Conventional feedback-based controllers often suffer from control chattering due to corrective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hang Yang , Fangju Yang , Yangming Zhang , Ibrahim Alsarraj , Yuhao Wang , Zhenye Luo , Zixi Chen , Ke Wu

We propose a generative multivariate posterior sampler via flow matching. It offers a simple training objective, and does not require access to likelihood evaluation. The method learns a dynamic, block-triangular velocity field in the joint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Percy S. Zhai , So Won Jeong , Veronika Ročková

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, offering faster sampling and simpler training by learning continuous flows governed by ordinary differential equations. Despite growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mudit Gaur , Prashant Trivedi , Shuchin Aeron , Amrit Singh Bedi , George K. Atia , Vaneet Aggarwal