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Mean flow (MeanFlow) enables efficient, high-fidelity image generation, yet its single-function evaluation (1-NFE) generation often cannot yield compelling results. We address this issue by introducing RMFlow, an efficient multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Shih-Hsin Wang , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Bao Wang

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,…

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Recent advances in FlowMatching-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) frameworks have demonstrated remarkable advantages in generating high-frequency action chunks, particularly for highly dexterous robotic manipulation tasks. Despite these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yang Chen , Xiaoguang Ma , Bin Zhao

Flow-based models learn a target distribution by modeling a marginal velocity field, defined as the average of sample-wise velocities connecting each sample from a simple prior to the target data. When sample-wise velocities conflict at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yeonwoo Cha , Jaehoon Yoo , Semin Kim , Yunseo Park , Jinhyeon Kwon , Seunghoon Hong

Diffusion and flow models have become the dominant paradigm for generative modeling on Riemannian manifolds, with successful applications in protein backbone generation and DNA sequence design. However, these methods require tens to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Dongyeop Woo , Marta Skreta , Seonghyun Park , Kirill Neklyudov , Sungsoo Ahn

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

Flow map models such as Consistency Models (CM) and Mean Flow (MF) enable few-step generation by learning the long jump of the ODE solution of diffusion models, yet training remains unstable, sensitive to hyperparameters, and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zheyuan Hu , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

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

Speech enhancement (SE) recovers clean speech from noisy signals and is vital for applications such as telecommunications and automatic speech recognition (ASR). While generative approaches achieve strong perceptual quality, they often rely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yike Zhu , Boyi Kang , Ziqian Wang , Xingchen Li , Zihan Zhang , Wenjie Li , Longshuai Xiao , Wei Xue , Lei Xie

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

Learning expressive and efficient policy functions is a promising direction in reinforcement learning (RL). While flow-based policies have recently proven effective in modeling complex action distributions with a fast deterministic sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Guojian Zhan , Letian Tao , Pengcheng Wang , Yixiao Wang , Yiheng Li , Yuxin Chen , Hongyang Li , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Shengbo Eben Li

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

Speech enhancement (SE) improves degraded speech's quality, with generative models like flow matching gaining attention for their outstanding perceptual quality. However, the flow-based model requires multiple numbers of function…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Jiahe Wang , Hongyu Wang , Wei Wang , Lei Yang , Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Lufen Tan , Yanmin Qian

In robot manipulation, robot learning has become a prevailing approach. However, generative models within this field face a fundamental trade-off between the slow, iterative sampling of diffusion models and the architectural constraints of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Juyi Sheng , Ziyi Wang , Peiming Li , Mengyuan Liu

Fast flow models accelerate the iterative sampling process by learning to directly predict ODE path integrals, enabling one-step or few-step generation. However, we argue that current fast-flow training paradigms suffer from two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tianyi Zhang , Chengcheng Liu , Jinwei Chen , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Li , Peng-Tao Jiang

Data heterogeneity hinders clinical deployment of medical image analysis models, and generative data augmentation helps mitigate this issue. However, recent diffusion-based methods that synthesize image-mask pairs often ignore distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Jie Yang , Ziqi Ye , Aihua Ke , Jian Luo , Bo Cai , Xiaosong Wang

Steering large-scale swarms with only limited control updates is often needed due to communication or computational constraints, yet most learning-based approaches do not account for this and instead model instantaneous velocity fields. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Anqi Dong , Yongxin Chen , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

Recent advances in large multi-modal generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal generation, including image and video generation. These models are typically built upon multi-step frameworks like diffusion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhenglin Cheng , Peng Sun , Jianguo Li , Tao Lin

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

Few-step generation has been a long-standing goal, with recent one-step generation methods exemplified by MeanFlow achieving remarkable results. Existing research on MeanFlow primarily focuses on class-to-image generation. However, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxi Zhao , Chen Zhu , Xiaokun Feng , Aiming Hao , Jiashu Zhu , Jiachen Lei , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Jufeng Yang