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Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative modeling approach with flexible choices of source distribution. While Gaussian distributions are commonly used, the potential for better alternatives in high-dimensional data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junho Lee , Kwanseok Kim , Joonseok Lee

Energy-harvesting systems in complex flow environments, such as floating offshore wind turbines, tidal turbines, and ground-fixed turbines in axial gusts, encounter unsteady streamwise flow conditions that affect their power generation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Nathaniel J. Wei , John O. Dabiri

This paper motivates the use of random-bridges -- stochastic processes conditioned to take target distributions at fixed timepoints -- in the realm of generative modelling. Herein, random-bridges can act as stochastic transports between two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Stefano Goria , Levent A. Mengütürk , Murat C. Mengütürk , Berkan Sesen

The paper investigates the throughput behavior of single-commodity dynamical flow networks governed by monotone distributed routing policies. The networks are modeled as systems of ODEs based on mass conversation laws on directed graphs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-08 Giacomo Como , Enrico Lovisari , Ketan Savla

Conditional generative models represent a significant advancement in the field of machine learning, allowing for the controlled synthesis of data by incorporating additional information into the generation process. In this work we introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-27 Hanwen Huang

A simple algorithm for constructing an effective traffic model is presented. The algorithm uses statistically well-defined quantities extracted from the flow-density plot, and the resulting effective model naturally captures and predicts…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-12-16 Bo Yang , Christopher Monterola

We consider equations of nonlinear transport on the circle with regular self interactions appearing in aggregation models and deterministic mean field dynamics. We introduce a random perturbation of such systems through a stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Max-K. von Renesse , Feng-Yu Wang , Alexander Weiß

We prove an existence result for the steady state flow of gas mixtures on networks. The basis of the model are the physical principles of the isothermal Euler equation, coupling conditions for the flow and pressure, and the mixing of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Alena Ulke , Michael Schuster , Simone Göttlich

Tuning of measurement models is challenging in real-world applications of sequential Monte Carlo methods. Recent advances in differentiable particle filters have led to various efforts to learn measurement models through neural networks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Xiongjie Chen , Yunpeng Li

In this paper we systematically apply the mathematical structures by time-evolving measures developed in a previous work to the macroscopic modeling of pedestrian flows. We propose a discrete-time Eulerian model, in which the space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-02 Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

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

Despite the remarkable success of sampling-based generative models such as flow matching, they can still produce samples of inconsistent or degraded quality. To assess sample reliability and generate higher-quality outputs, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Juyeop Han , Lukas Lao Beyer , Sertac Karaman

Diffusion-based generative models employ stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and their equivalent probability flow ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to establish a smooth transformation between complex high-dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Defang Chen , Zhenyu Zhou , Can Wang , Siwei Lyu

We simulate the nonlocal Stokesian hydrodynamics of an elastic filament which is active due a permanent distribution of stresslets along its contour. A bending instability of an initially straight filament spontaneously breaks flow symmetry…

We consider transport networks with nodes scattered at random in a large domain. At certain local rates, the nodes generate traffic flowing according to some navigation scheme in a given direction. In the thermodynamic limit of a growing…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Christian Hirsch , Benedikt Jahnel , Paul Keeler , Robert I. A. Patterson

In this paper, we propose a stochastic cellular automaton model of traffic flow extending two exactly solvable stochastic models, i.e., the asymmetric simple exclusion process and the zero range process. Moreover it is regarded as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-26 Masahiro Kanai , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Tetsuji Tokihiro

In this work, we derive first order continuum traffic flow models from a microscopic delayed follow-the-leader model. Those are applicable in the context of vehicular traffic flow as well as pedestrian traffic flow. The microscopic model is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Antoine Tordeux , Guillaume Costeseque , Michael Herty , Armin Seyfried

In recent works, we have proposed a stochastic cellular automaton model of traffic flow connecting two exactly solvable stochastic processes, i.e., the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and the Zero Range Process, with an additional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-19 Masahiro Kanai , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Tetsuji Tokihiro

This paper proposes the TrafficFlowGAN, a physics-informed flow based generative adversarial network (GAN), for uncertainty quantification (UQ) of dynamical systems. TrafficFlowGAN adopts a normalizing flow model as the generator to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zhaobin Mo , Yongjie Fu , Daran Xu , Xuan Di

Recent ODE/SDE-based generative models, such as diffusion models, rectified flows, and flow matching, define a generative process as a time reversal of a fixed forward process. Even though these models show impressive performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sangyun Lee , Beomsu Kim , Jong Chul Ye