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Trajectory prediction and generation are crucial for autonomous robots in dynamic environments. While prior research has typically focused on either prediction or generation, our approach unifies these tasks to provide a versatile framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sean Ye , Matthew Gombolay

Generating high-quality time series data has emerged as a critical research topic due to its broad utility in supporting downstream time series mining tasks. A major challenge lies in modeling the intrinsic stochasticity of temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-20 He Panjing , Cheng Mingyue , Li Li , Zhang XiaoHan

Flow map learning (FML), in conjunction with deep neural networks (DNNs), has shown promises for data driven modeling of unknown dynamical systems. A remarkable feature of FML is that it is capable of producing accurate predictive models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Victor Churchill , Dongbin Xiu

Optical flow is a useful input for various applications, including 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, tracking, and structure-from-motion. Despite its utility, the field of dense long-term tracking, especially over wide baselines, has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tomáš Jelínek , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

Flow Matching enables simulation-free training of generative models on Riemannian manifolds, yet sampling typically still relies on numerically integrating a probability-flow ODE. We propose Riemannian MeanFlow (RMF), extending MeanFlow to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zichen Zhong , Haoliang Sun , Yukun Zhao , Yongshun Gong , Yilong Yin

Occlusions between consecutive frames have long posed a significant challenge in optical flow estimation. The inherent ambiguity introduced by occlusions directly violates the brightness constancy constraint and considerably hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shangkun Sun , Jiaming Liu , Thomas H. Li , Huaxia Li , Guoqing Liu , Wei Gao

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

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a leading approach for high-fidelity visual generation, offering a robust continuous-time alternative to ordinary differential equation (ODE) based models. However, despite their success, FM models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dayu Wang , Jiaye Yang , Weikang Li , Jiahui Liang , Yang Li

High-dimensional count data arise in applications such as single-cell RNA sequencing and neural spike trains, where mapping between distributions across successive batches or time points form critical components of data analysis. The recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Ganchao Wei , John Pearson

Modeling transformations between arbitrary data distributions is a fundamental scientific challenge, arising in applications like drug discovery and evolutionary simulation. While flow matching offers a natural framework for this task, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shiye Su , Yuhui Zhang , Linqi Zhou , Rajesh Ranganath , Serena Yeung-Levy

Reliable medical image classification requires accurate predictions and well-calibrated uncertainty estimates, especially in high-stakes clinical settings. This work presents MedSymmFlow, a generative-discriminative hybrid model built on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Francisco Caetano , Lemar Abdi , Christiaan Viviers , Amaan Valiuddin , Fons van der Sommen

Granular flows govern many natural and industrial processes, yet their interior kinematics and mechanics remain largely unobservable, as experiments access only boundaries or free surfaces. Conventional numerical simulations are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xuyang Li , Rui Li , Teng Man , Yimin Lu

Human trajectory forecasting is important for intelligent multimedia systems operating in visually complex environments, such as autonomous driving and crowd surveillance. Although Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) has shown strong ability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xuepeng Jing , Wenhuan Lu , Hao Meng , Zhizhi Yu , Jianguo Wei

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

High-dimensional recordings of dynamical processes are often characterized by a much smaller set of effective variables, evolving on low-dimensional manifolds. Identifying these latent dynamics requires solving two intertwined problems:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Manuel Hinz , Maximilian Mauel , Patrick Seifner , David Berghaus , Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramses J. Sanchez

Learning from multimodal datasets can leverage complementary information and improve performance in prediction tasks. A commonly used strategy to account for feature correlations in high-dimensional datasets is the latent variable approach.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lingchao Mao , Qi wang , Yi Su , Fleming Lure , Jing Li

Robust robot planning in dynamic, human-centric environments remains challenging due to multimodal uncertainty, the need for real-time adaptation, and safety requirements. Optimization-based planners enable explicit constraint handling but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kazuki Mizuta , Karen Leung

Model-based and learning-based methods are two major types of methodologies to model car following behaviors. Model-based methods describe the car-following behaviors with explicit mathematical equations, while learning-based methods focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Yilin Wang , Yiheng Feng

We propose GoalFlow, an end-to-end autonomous driving method for generating high-quality multimodal trajectories. In autonomous driving scenarios, there is rarely a single suitable trajectory. Recent methods have increasingly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zebin Xing , Xingyu Zhang , Yang Hu , Bo Jiang , Tong He , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Wei Yin

While most scene flow methods use either variational optimization or a strong rigid motion assumption, we show for the first time that scene flow can also be estimated by dense interpolation of sparse matches. To this end, we find sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Georg Kuschk , Christian Bailer , Didier Stricker