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MeanFlow offers a promising framework for one-step generative modeling by directly learning a mean-velocity field, bypassing expensive numerical integration. However, we find that the highly curved generative trajectories of existing models…

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Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a desired speaker's voice from a multi-speaker mixture using auxiliary information such as a reference utterance. Although recent advances in diffusion and flow-matching models have improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Riki Shimizu , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

Generative models have achieved remarkable progress with the emergence of flow matching (FM). It has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and attracted significant attention as a simulation-free flow-based framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Hoang Anh Nguyen Kim , Toan Nguyen Hai , Long Tran Quoc

The multi-step denoising process in diffusion and Flow Matching models causes major efficiency issues, which motivates research on few-step generation. We present Solution Flow Models (SoFlow), a framework for one-step generation from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tianze Luo , Haotian Yuan , Zhuang Liu

Generative models have shown great potential in trajectory planning. Recent studies demonstrate that anchor-guided generative models are effective in modeling the uncertainty of driving behaviors and improving overall performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Junli Wang , Yinan Zheng , Xueyi Liu , Zebin Xing , Pengfei Li , Guang Li , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Zhongpu Xia , Long Chen , Qichao Zhang

A key challenge in synthesizing audios from silent videos is the inherent trade-off between synthesis quality and inference efficiency in existing methods. For instance, flow matching based models rely on modeling instantaneous velocity,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xiaoran Yang , Jianxuan Yang , Xinyue Guo , Haoyu Wang , Ningning Pan , Gongping Huang

We propose \emph{Euler Mean Flows (EMF)}, a flow-based generative framework for one-step and few-step generation that enforces long-range trajectory consistency with minimal sampling cost. The key idea of EMF is to replace the trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhiqi Li , Yuchen Sun , Duowen Chen , Jinjin He , Bo Zhu

Network traffic classification using self-supervised pre-training models based on Masked Autoencoders (MAE) has demonstrated a huge potential. However, existing methods are confined to isolated byte-level reconstruction of individual flows,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiao Liu , Xiaowei Fu , Fuxiang Huang , Lei Zhang

The performance of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) is critically dependent on the quality of their visual tokenizers. While recent works have explored incorporating Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) into the tokenizers training via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tianci Bi , Xiaoyi Zhang , Yan Lu , Nanning Zheng

Consistency-based generative models like Shortcut and MeanFlow achieve impressive results via a target-aware design for solving the Probability Flow ODE (PF-ODE). Typically, such methods introduce a target time $r$ alongside the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Peng Sun , Xinyi Shang , Tao Lin , Zhiqiang Shen

Diffusion- and flow-based models have advanced Real-world Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR), but their multi-step sampling makes inference slow and hard to deploy. One-step distillation alleviates the cost, yet often degrades restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ruiqing Wang , Kai Zhang , Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Shilin Lu , Jian Yang

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free method for learning a continuous and invertible flow to interpolate between two distributions, and in particular to generate data from noise. Inspired by the variational nature of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

Image Representation learning via input reconstruction is a common technique in machine learning for generating representations that can be effectively utilized by arbitrary downstream tasks. A well-established approach is using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Raoof HojatJalali , Edmondo Trentin

Existing dominant methods for audio generation include Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion-based methods like Flow Matching. GANs suffer from slow convergence during training, while diffusion methods require multi-step…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Zengwei Yao , Wei Kang , Han Zhu , Liyong Guo , Lingxuan Ye , Fangjun Kuang , Weiji Zhuang , Zhaoqing Li , Zhifeng Han , Long Lin , Daniel Povey

Diffusion probabilistic models have been shown to generate state-of-the-art results on several competitive image synthesis benchmarks but lack a low-dimensional, interpretable latent space, and are slow at generation. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Kushagra Pandey , Avideep Mukherjee , Piyush Rai , Abhishek Kumar

With the increasing data volume, there is a trend of using large-scale pre-trained models to store the knowledge into an enormous number of model parameters. The training of these models is composed of lots of dense algebras, requiring a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xiaonan Nie , Xupeng Miao , Zilong Wang , Zichao Yang , Jilong Xue , Lingxiao Ma , Gang Cao , Bin Cui

This paper studies the training-testing discrepancy (a.k.a. exposure bias) problem for improving the diffusion models. During training, the input of a prediction network at one training timestep is the corresponding ground-truth noisy data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hui Li , Jiayue Lyu , Fu-Yun Wang , Kaihui Cheng , Siyu Zhu , Jingdong Wang

Autoregressive language models (ARMs) deliver strong likelihoods, but are inherently serial: they generate one token per forward pass, which limits throughput and inflates latency for long sequences. Diffusion Language Models (DLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Nikhil Bhendawade , Manuel Rafael Ciosici , Dominic Culver , Yizhe Zhang , Irina Belousova

Diffusion and flow-matching models achieve remarkable generative performance but at the cost of many sampling steps, this slows inference and limits applicability to time-critical tasks. The ReFlow procedure can accelerate sampling by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Beomsu Kim , Yu-Guan Hsieh , Michal Klein , Marco Cuturi , Jong Chul Ye , Bahjat Kawar , James Thornton