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Few-step diffusion or flow-based generative models typically distill a velocity-predicting teacher into a student that predicts a shortcut towards denoised data. This format mismatch has led to complex distillation procedures that often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Hansheng Chen , Kai Zhang , Hao Tan , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sai Bi

Large Language Models have shown remarkable efficacy in generating streaming data such as text and audio, thanks to their temporally uni-directional attention mechanism, which models correlations between the current token and previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhening Xing , Gereon Fox , Yanhong Zeng , Xingang Pan , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt , Kai Chen

Numerous text-to-video (T2V) editing methods have emerged recently, but the lack of a standardized benchmark for fair evaluation has led to inconsistent claims and an inability to assess model sensitivity to hyperparameters. Fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Minghan Li , Chenxi Xie , Yichen Wu , Lei Zhang , Mengyu Wang

Diffusion model (DM)-based channel estimation, which generates channel samples via a posteriori sampling stepwise with denoising process, has shown potential in high-precision channel state information (CSI) acquisition. However, slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wenkai Liu , Nan Ma , Jianqiao Chen , Xiaoxuan Qi , Yuhang Ma

Continuous diffusion and flow matching models could represent a powerful alternative to autoregressive approaches for language modelling (LM), as they unlock a host of advantages currently reserved for continuous modalities, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Oscar Davis , Anastasiia Filippova , Pierre Ablin , Victor Turrisi , Amitis Shidani , Marco Cuturi , Louis Béthune

Normalizing Flows (NFs) learn invertible mappings between the data and a Gaussian distribution. Prior works usually suffer from two limitations. First, they add random noise to training samples or VAE latents as data augmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Qinyu Zhao , Guangting Zheng , Tao Yang , Rui Zhu , Xingjian Leng , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Building on the success of diffusion models in visual generation, flow-based models reemerge as another prominent family of generative models that have achieved competitive or better performance in terms of both visual quality and inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wenliang Zhao , Minglei Shi , Xumin Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Diffusion models have emerged as preeminent contenders in the realm of generative models. Distinguished by their distinctive sequential generative processes, characterized by hundreds or even thousands of timesteps, diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haojun Sun , Chen Tang , Zhi Wang , Yuan Meng , Jingyan jiang , Xinzhu Ma , Wenwu Zhu

Flow Matching enables simulation-free training of generative models on Riemannian manifolds, yet sampling typically still relies on numerically integrating a probability-flow ODE. We propose Riemannian MeanFlow (RMF), extending MeanFlow to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zichen Zhong , Haoliang Sun , Yukun Zhao , Yongshun Gong , Yilong Yin

3D particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a key technique for analyzing turbulent flow, one of the most challenging computational problems of our century. At the core of 3D PTV is the dual-frame fluid motion estimation algorithm, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yifei Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Zhou Jiang , Hao Zhao

Recently, with the tremendous success of diffusion models in the field of text-to-image (T2I) generation, increasing attention has been directed toward their potential in text-to-video (T2V) applications. However, the computational demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Wenfeng Lin , Jiangchuan Wei , Boyuan Liu , Yichen Zhang , Shiyue Yan , Mingyu Guo

A diffusion model, which is formulated to produce an image using thousands of denoising steps, usually suffers from a slow inference speed. Existing acceleration algorithms simplify the sampling by skipping most steps yet exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Yujun Shen , Changsong Lei , Yu Zhou , Ran Yi , Deli Zhao , Wenping Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Recent advancements in latent diffusion models (LDMs) have markedly enhanced text-to-audio generation, yet their iterative sampling processes impose substantial computational demands, limiting practical deployment. While recent methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Huadai Liu , Jialei Wang , Rongjie Huang , Yang Liu , Heng Lu , Zhou Zhao , Wei Xue

Diffusion models can learn rich representations during data generation, showing potential for Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), but they face a trade-off between generative quality and discriminative performance. Their iterative sampling also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kosuke Ukita , Tsuyoshi Okita

Most Video Super-Resolution (VSR) methods enhance a video reference frame by aligning its neighboring frames and mining information on these frames. Recently, deformable alignment has drawn extensive attention in VSR community for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiayi Lin , Yan Huang , Liang Wang

Flow-based 3D generation models typically require dozens of sampling steps during inference. Though few-step distillation methods, particularly Consistency Models (CMs), have achieved substantial advancements in accelerating 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zanwei Zhou , Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Chen Yang , Lingxi Xie , Xinggang Wang , Wei Shen , Qi Tian

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) enable high-fidelity synthesis by operating in learned latent spaces. However, training state-of-the-art LDMs requires complex staging: a tokenizer must be trained first, before the diffusion model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shivam Duggal , Xingjian Bai , Zongze Wu , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Antonio Torralba , Phillip Isola , William T. Freeman

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

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

We introduce Lavender, a simple supervised fine-tuning (SFT) method that boosts the performance of advanced vision-language models (VLMs) by leveraging state-of-the-art image generation models such as Stable Diffusion. Specifically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Amrutha Saseendran , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare