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The autonomous driving community has witnessed a rapid growth in approaches that embrace an end-to-end algorithm framework, utilizing raw sensor input to generate vehicle motion plans, instead of concentrating on individual tasks such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Li Chen , Penghao Wu , Kashyap Chitta , Bernhard Jaeger , Andreas Geiger , Hongyang Li

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…

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The end-to-end (E2E) paradigm, which maps sensor inputs directly to driving decisions, has recently attracted significant attention due to its unified modeling capability and scalability. However, ensuring safety in this unified framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jungho Kim , Jiyong Oh , Seunghoon Yu , Hongjae Shin , Donghyuk Kwak , Jun Won Choi

Human trajectory forecasting is important for intelligent multimedia systems operating in visually complex environments, such as autonomous driving and crowd surveillance. Although Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) has shown strong ability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xuepeng Jing , Wenhuan Lu , Hao Meng , Zhizhi Yu , Jianguo Wei

Existing generative models for time series forecasting often transform simple priors (typically Gaussian) into complex data distributions. However, their sampling initialization, independent of historical data, hinders the capture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Huibo Xu , Runlong Yu , Likang Wu , Xianquan Wang , Qi Liu

Guidance of generative models is typically achieved by modifying the probability flow vector field through the addition of a guidance field. In this paper, we instead propose the Source-Guided Flow Matching (SGFM) framework, which modifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zifan Wang , Alice Harting , Matthieu Barreau , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

Diffusion- and flow-based models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative modeling approaches, but they require many sampling steps. Consistency models can distill these models into efficient one-step generators; however, unlike flow-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Amirmojtaba Sabour , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Visually-guided acoustic highlighting seeks to rebalance audio in alignment with the accompanying video, creating a coherent audio-visual experience. While visual saliency and enhancement have been widely studied, acoustic highlighting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Hugo Malard , Gael Le Lan , Daniel Wong , David Lou Alon , Yi-Chiao Wu , Sanjeel Parekh

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a leading approach for high-fidelity visual generation, offering a robust continuous-time alternative to ordinary differential equation (ODE) based models. However, despite their success, FM models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dayu Wang , Jiaye Yang , Weikang Li , Jiahui Liang , Yang Li

End-to-end autonomous driving planners are commonly trained by imitating a single logged trajectory, yet evaluated by rule-based planning metrics that measure safety, feasibility, progress, and comfort. This creates a training--evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sining Ang , Yuguang Yang , Canyu Chen , Yan Wang

Dataset distillation compresses large datasets into compact synthetic sets with comparable performance in training models. Despite recent progress on diffusion-based distillation, this type of method typically depends on heuristic guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xuhui Li , Zhengquan Luo , Xiwei Liu , Yongqiang Yu , Zhiqiang Xu

End-to-end diffusion planning has shown strong potential for autonomous driving, but the physical feasibility of generated trajectories remains insufficiently addressed. In particular, generated trajectories may exhibit local geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Baoyun Wang , Zhuoren Li , Ran Yu , Yu Che , Xinrui Zhang , Ming Liu , Jia Hu , Chen Lv , Bo Leng

In generative modeling, we often wish to produce samples that maximize a user-specified reward such as aesthetic quality or alignment with human preferences, a problem known as \textit{guidance}. Despite their widespread use, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jerry Y. Huang , Justin Lin , Sheel Shah , Kartik Nair , Nicholas M. Boffi

Autonomous vehicles must navigate safely in complex driving environments. Imitating a single expert trajectory, as in regression-based approaches, usually does not explicitly assess the safety of the predicted trajectory. Selection-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wenhao Yao , Zhenxin Li , Shiyi Lan , Zi Wang , Xinglong Sun , Jose M. Alvarez , Zuxuan Wu

This paper proposes a specialized autonomous driving system that takes into account the unique constraints and characteristics of automotive systems, aiming for innovative advancements in autonomous driving technology. The proposed system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Eunbin Seo , Gwanjun Shin , Eunho Lee

Classifier-free guidance is a key component for enhancing the performance of conditional generative models across diverse tasks. While it has previously demonstrated remarkable improvements for the sample quality, it has only been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qinqing Zheng , Matt Le , Neta Shaul , Yaron Lipman , Aditya Grover , Ricky T. Q. Chen

Controlled generation with pre-trained Diffusion and Flow Matching models has vast applications. One strategy for guiding ODE-based generative models is through optimizing a target loss $R(x_1)$ while staying close to the prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Luran Wang , Chaoran Cheng , Yizhen Liao , Yanru Qu , Ge Liu

End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional modular pipelines by directly mapping raw sensor data to driving actions. While recent approaches achieve strong performance on single-domain datasets,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hoonhee Cho , Giwon Lee , Jae-Young Kang , Hyemin Yang , Heejun Park , Kuk-Jin Yoon

End-to-end autonomous driving methods aim to directly map raw sensor inputs to future driving actions such as planned trajectories, bypassing traditional modular pipelines. While these approaches have shown promise, they often operate under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bozhou Zhang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Li Zhang

Multi-stage decision-making is crucial in various real-world artificial intelligence applications, including recommendation systems, autonomous driving, and quantitative investment systems. In quantitative investment, for example, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jian Guo , Saizhuo Wang , Yiyan Qi