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We propose Flow Mismatching, an unsupervised anomaly detection method that deliberately avoids reconstruction-based paradigms. Instead, we treat flow matching as geometric dynamics and leverage a key insight: anomalies occur at places where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shengzhe Chen , Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar , Hao Yan

Over the several recent years, there has been a boom in development of Flow Matching (FM) methods for generative modeling. One intriguing property pursued by the community is the ability to learn flows with straight trajectories which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-11 Nikita Kornilov , Petr Mokrov , Alexander Gasnikov , Alexander Korotin

Flow matching (FM) learns vector fields by regressing stochastic velocity targets along intermediate distributions $p_t$. We identify a geometric optimization bottleneck in this regression problem: when the covariance $\Sigma_t$ of $p_t$ is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shadab Ahamed , Eshed Gal , Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Simon Ghyselincks , Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber

Visual navigation is a core challenge in Embodied AI, requiring autonomous agents to translate high-dimensional sensory observations into continuous, long-horizon action trajectories. While generative policies based on diffusion models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Wuyang Luan , Junhui Li , Weiguang Zhao , Wenjian Zhang , Tieru Wu , Rui Ma

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

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

Enhancing the efficiency of high-quality image generation using Diffusion Models (DMs) is a significant challenge due to the iterative nature of the process. Flow Matching (FM) is emerging as a powerful generative modeling paradigm based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Pascal Zwick , Nils Friederich , Maximilian Beichter , Lennart Hilbert , Ralf Mikut , Oliver Bringmann

Flow matching is a scalable generative framework for characterizing continuous normalizing flows with wide-range applications. However, current state-of-the-art methods are not well-suited for modeling dynamical systems, as they construct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Santanu Subhash Rathod , Pietro Liò , Xiao Zhang

Diffusion and flow matching models generate samples by learning time-dependent vector fields whose integration transports noise to data, requiring tens to hundreds of network evaluations at inference. We instead learn the transport map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xiao Shou

Understanding temporal dynamics in medical imaging is crucial for applications such as disease progression modeling, treatment planning and anatomical development tracking. However, most deep learning methods either consider only single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Nico Albert Disch , Yannick Kirchhoff , Robin Peretzke , Maximilian Rokuss , Saikat Roy , Constantin Ulrich , David Zimmerer , Klaus Maier-Hein

In recent years, we have seen a handful of work on inference algorithms over non-stationary data streams. Given their flexibility, Bayesian non-parametric models are a good candidate for these scenarios. However, reliable streaming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-14 Ioar Casado , Aritz Pérez

Learning-based planners are sensitive to the long-tailed distribution of driving data. Common maneuvers dominate datasets, while dangerous or rare scenarios are sparse. This imbalance can bias models toward the frequent cases and degrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lingguang Wang , Ömer Şahin Taş , Marlon Steiner , Christoph Stiller

Expanding on neural operators, we propose a novel framework for stochastic process learning across arbitrary domains. In particular, we develop operator flow matching (OFM) for learning stochastic process priors on function spaces. OFM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yaozhong Shi , Zachary E. Ross , Domniki Asimaki , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli

Temporal coherence is a valuable source of information in the context of optical flow estimation. However, finding a suitable motion model to leverage this information is a non-trivial task. In this paper we propose an unsupervised online…

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Existing work on population dynamics inference often focuses on flows arising from vector fields that are the gradients of scalar potentials. Among all admissible flows that are compatible with the population dynamics, gradient flows are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jules Berman , Tobias Blickhan , Benjamin Peherstorfer

Flow-matching models provide a powerful framework for various applications, offering efficient sampling and flexible probability path modeling. These models are characterized by flows with low curvature in learned generative trajectories,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zibin Wang , Zhiyuan Ouyang , Xiangyun Zhang

Likelihood-based deep generative models have been widely investigated for Image Anomaly Detection (IAD), particularly Normalizing Flows, yet their strict architectural invertibility needs often constrain scalability, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Liangwei Li , Lin Liu , Hanzhe Liang , Juanxiu Liu , Jing Zhang , Ruqian Hao , Xiaohui Du , Yong Liu , Pan Li

Predicting particle transport in complex flows is traditionally achieved by solving the Navier-Stokes equations. While various numerical and experimental methods exist, they typically require deep physical insights and incur high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Jingdi Wan , Hongping Wang , Bo Liu , Xiaolei Yang , Xiaodong Hu , Shengze Cai , Guowei He , Yang Liu

Generative modeling over discrete data has recently seen numerous success stories, with applications spanning language modeling, biological sequence design, and graph-structured molecular data. The predominant generative modeling paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Oscar Davis , Samuel Kessler , Mircea Petrache , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Michael Bronstein , Avishek Joey Bose

Climate models are essential to understand and project climate change, yet long-standing biases and uncertainties in their projections remain. This is largely associated with the representation of subgrid-scale processes, particularly…