English
Related papers

Related papers: MeanFlow Transformers with Representation Autoenco…

200 papers

Current two-stage TTS framework typically integrates an acoustic model with a vocoder -- the acoustic model predicts a low resolution intermediate representation such as Mel-spectrum while the vocoder generates waveform from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Jian Cong , Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Dan Su

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful generative framework that have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, the high computational cost of training DMs limits their practical applications. In this paper, we start with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tianshuo Xu , Peng Mi , Ruilin Wang , Yingcong Chen

Diffusion models exhibit remarkable generative capability, but their high latency limits practical deployment. Many studies have attempted to reduce sampling steps to accelerate inference. Among them, MeanFlow has attracted considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiao He , Yang Li , Peizhen Zhang , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Nannan Wang

Solving flow through porous media is a crucial step in the topology optimisation of cold plates, a key component in modern thermal management. Traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods, while accurate, are often prohibitively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jinhong Wang , Matei C. Ignuta-Ciuncanu , Ricardo F. Martinez-Botas , Teng Cao

We introduce MelodyFlow, an efficient text-controllable high-fidelity music generation and editing model. It operates on continuous latent representations from a low frame rate 48 kHz stereo variational auto encoder codec. Based on a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Gael Le Lan , Bowen Shi , Zhaoheng Ni , Sidd Srinivasan , Anurag Kumar , Brian Ellis , David Kant , Varun Nagaraja , Ernie Chang , Wei-Ning Hsu , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

Autoregressive next-step prediction models have become the de-facto standard for building data-driven neural solvers to forecast time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Denoise training that is closely related to diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zijie Li , Anthony Zhou , Amir Barati Farimani

Generative recommendation has emerged as a transformative paradigm for capturing the dynamic evolution of user intents in sequential recommendation. While flow-based methods improve the efficiency of diffusion models, they remain hindered…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ke Shi , Yao Zhang , Feng Guo , Jinyuan Zhang , JunShuo Zhang , Shen Gao , Shuo Shang

The Perception-Distortion tradeoff (PD-tradeoff) theory suggests that face restoration algorithms must balance perceptual quality and fidelity. To achieve minimal distortion while maintaining perfect perceptual quality, Posterior-Mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xin Luo , Menglin Zhang , Yunwei Lan , Tianyu Zhang , Rui Li , Chang Liu , Dong Liu

We introduce $\texttt{PairFlow}$, a lightweight preprocessing step for training Discrete Flow Models (DFMs) to achieve few-step sampling without requiring a pretrained teacher. DFMs have recently emerged as a new class of generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingue Park , Jisung Hwang , Seungwoo Yoo , Kyeongmin Yeo , Minhyuk Sung

Flow-based Generative Models (FGMs) effectively transform noise into complex data distributions. Incorporating Optimal Transport (OT) to couple noise and data during FGM training has been shown to improve the straightness of flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Lingkai Kong , Molei Tao , Yang Liu , Bryan Wang , Jinmiao Fu , Chien-Chih Wang , Huidong Liu

We present Functional Mean Flow (FMF) as a one-step generative model defined in infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. FMF extends the one-step Mean Flow framework to functional domains by providing a theoretical formulation for Functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhiqi Li , Yuchen Sun , Greg Turk , Bo Zhu

We introduce Efficient Motion Diffusion Model (EMDM) for fast and high-quality human motion generation. Current state-of-the-art generative diffusion models have produced impressive results but struggle to achieve fast generation without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Wenyang Zhou , Zhiyang Dou , Zeyu Cao , Zhouyingcheng Liao , Jingbo Wang , Wenjia Wang , Yuan Liu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Lingjie Liu

MeanFlow enables one-step generation in continuous spaces by learning an average velocity over a time interval rather than the instantaneous velocity field of flow matching. However, discrete state spaces do not have smooth trajectories or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Fairoz Nower Khan , Nabuat Zaman Nahim , Md Sajid Ahmed , Ruiquan Huang , Peizhong Ju

Time series data is ubiquitous, with forecasting applications spanning from finance to healthcare. Beyond popular deterministic methods, generative models are gaining attention due to advancements in areas like image synthesis and video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiawen Wei , Lan Jiang , Pengbo Wei , Ziwen Ye , Teng Song , Chen Chen , Guangrui Ma

Flow models are effective at progressively generating realistic images, but they generally struggle to capture long-range dependencies during the generation process as they compress all the information from previous time steps into a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mude Hui , Rui-Jie Zhu , Songlin Yang , Yu Zhang , Zirui Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Jason Eshraghian , Cihang Xie

Autoencoders empower state-of-the-art image and video generative models by compressing pixels into a latent space through visual tokenization. Although recent advances have alleviated the performance degradation of autoencoders under high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dongxu Liu , Jiahui Zhu , Yuang Peng , Haomiao Tang , Yuwei Chen , Chunrui Han , Zheng Ge , Daxin Jiang , Mingxue Liao

Language models based on discrete diffusion have attracted widespread interest for their potential to provide faster generation than autoregressive models. Despite their promise, these models typically produce samples whose quality sharply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chanhyuk Lee , Jaehoon Yoo , Manan Agarwal , Sheel Shah , Jerry Huang , Aditi Raghunathan , Seunghoon Hong , Nicholas M. Boffi , Jinwoo Kim

Recent Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based large language models (LLMs) such as Qwen-MoE and DeepSeek-MoE are transforming generative AI in natural language processing. However, these models require vast and diverse training data. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Songyuan Li , Jia Hu , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Geyong Min , Haojun Huang , Jiwei Huang

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in Text-to-Audio Generation (TTA), providing sound creators with powerful tools to transform inspirations into vivid audio. Yet despite these advances, current TTA systems often suffer from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiquan Li , Junxi Liu , Yuzhe Liang , Zhikang Niu , Wenxi Chen , Xie Chen

Recent progress in flow-based generative models and reinforcement learning (RL) has improved text-image alignment and visual quality. However, current RL training for flow models still has two main problems: (i) GRPO-style fixed per-prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kaijie Chen , Zhiyang Xu , Ying Shen , Zihao Lin , Yuguang Yao , Lifu Huang