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We present FlowDet, the first formulation of object detection using modern Conditional Flow Matching techniques. This work follows from DiffusionDet, which originally framed detection as a generative denoising problem in the bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Enis Baty , C. P. Bridges , Simon Hadfield

Virtual instrument generation requires maintaining consistent timbre across different pitches and velocities, a challenge that existing note-level models struggle to address. We present FlowSynth, which combines distributional flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Qihui Yang , Randal Leistikow , Yongyi Zang

We present GIGA-Lens: a gradient-informed, GPU-accelerated Bayesian framework for modeling strong gravitational lensing systems, implemented in TensorFlow and JAX. The three components, optimization using multi-start gradient descent,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 A. Gu , X. Huang , W. Sheu , G. Aldering , A. S. Bolton , K. Boone , A. Dey , A. Filipp , E. Jullo , S. Perlmutter , D. Rubin , E. F. Schlafly , D. J. Schlegel , Y. Shu , S. H. Suyu

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing is not only a valuable probe of the dark matter distribution of massive galaxies, but can also provide valuable cosmological constraints, either by studying the population of strong lenses or by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Francois Lanusse , Quanbin Ma , Nan Li , Thomas E. Collett , Chun-Liang Li , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Barnabas Poczos

Strong gravitational lensing, which can make a background source galaxy appears multiple times due to its light rays being deflected by the mass of one or more foreground lens galaxies, provides astronomers with a powerful tool to study…

The difficult task of observing Dark Matter subhaloes is of paramount importance since it would constrain Dark Matter particle properties (cold or warm relic) and confirm once again the longstanding $\Lambda$CDM model. In the near future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Marco Chianese

The gravitational lensing signal produced by a galaxy or a galaxy cluster is determined by its total matter distribution, providing us with a way to directly constrain their dark matter content. State-of-the-art numerical simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Giulia Despali , Felix M. Heinze , Claudio Mastromarino

Strong gravitational lenses allow us to peer into the farthest reaches of space by bending the light from a background object around a massive object in the foreground. Unfortunately, these lenses are extremely rare, and manually finding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 Stephen Sheng , Keerthi Vasan G. C , Chi Po Choi , James Sharpnack , Tucker Jones

Flow Matching (FM) models achieve remarkable results in generative tasks. Building upon diffusion models, FM's simulation-free training paradigm enables simplicity and efficiency but introduces a train-inference gap: model outputs cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhaoyi Li , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Shihua Li

Allocating extra computation at inference time has recently improved sample quality in large language models and diffusion-based image generation. In parallel, Flow Matching (FM) has gained traction in language, vision, and scientific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Adam Stecklov , Noah El Rimawi-Fine , Mathieu Blanchette

Gravitational lensing directly measures mass density fluctuations along the lines of sight to very distant objects. No assumptions need to be made concerning bias, the ratio of fluctuations in galaxy density to mass density. Hence, lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Wambsganss , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We present a strong lensing modeling technique based on versatile basis sets for the lens and source planes. Our method uses high performance Monte Carlo algorithms, allows for an adaptive build up of complexity and bridges the gap between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Simon Birrer , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

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

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

In this study, we explore gravitational lensing using more realistic dark matter halo models, moving beyond the limitations of spherical-collapse approximations. Through analytical calculations employing various mass functions, we address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Ali Tizfahm , Saeed Fakhry , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Antonino Del Popolo

Flow-matching models deliver state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video generation, but the inherent sequential denoising process renders them slower. Existing acceleration methods like distillation, trajectory truncation, and consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Dhruv Bhardwaj , Soumya Roy , Tejas Duseja , Harsh Agarwal , Aashay Sandansing , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Flow matching has shown state-of-the-art performance in various generative tasks, ranging from image generation to decision-making, where generation under energy guidance (abbreviated as guidance in the following) is pivotal. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ruiqi Feng , Chenglei Yu , Wenhao Deng , Peiyan Hu , Tailin Wu

The growing demand for text-to-image generation has led to rapid advances in generative modeling. Recently, text-to-image diffusion models trained with flow matching algorithms, such as FLUX, have achieved remarkable progress and emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zikai Zhou , Muyao Wang , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Haoyi Xiong , Bo Han , Zeke Xie

Despite the success of Large-Vision Language Models (LVLMs), general optimization objectives (e.g., standard MLE) fail to constrain visual trajectories, leading to language bias and hallucination. To mitigate this, current methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yangfu Li , Yuning Gong , Hongjian Zhan , Teng Li , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Tianyi Chen , Qi Liu , Ziyuan Huang , Zhihang Zhong , Dandan Zheng , Yue Lu