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Generative models based on dynamical equations such as flows and diffusions offer exceptional sample quality, but require computationally expensive numerical integration during inference. The advent of consistency models has enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nicholas M. Boffi , Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Diffusion Bridge and Flow Matching have both demonstrated compelling empirical performance in transformation between arbitrary distributions. However, there remains confusion about which approach is generally preferable, and the substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kaizhen Zhu , Mokai Pan , Zhechuan Yu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Conditional flow matching (CFM) stands out as an efficient, simulation-free approach for training flow-based generative models, achieving remarkable performance for data generation. However, CFM is insufficient to ensure accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Taos Transue , Shih-Hsin Wang , William Feldman , Hong Zhang , Bao Wang

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen

Generating high-quality time-series data is challenging because real-world signals often exhibit multimodal patterns and multiscale dynamics, including oscillations and high-frequency variations. Flow Matching (FM) offers an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junru Zhang , Lang Feng , Jinbo Wang , Xu Guo , Yucheng Wang , Han Yu , Min Wu , Yabo Dong , Duanqing Xu

Data sharing is a prerequisite for collaborative innovation, enabling organizations to leverage diverse datasets for deeper insights. In real-world applications like FinTech and Smart Manufacturing, transactional data, often in tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mengmeng Yang , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jie Feng , Taolin Guo , Wei Ni

Flow matching (FM) is a general framework for defining probability paths via Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) to transform between noise and data samples. Recent approaches attempt to straighten these flow trajectories to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ling Yang , Zixiang Zhang , Zhilong Zhang , Xingchao Liu , Minkai Xu , Wentao Zhang , Chenlin Meng , Stefano Ermon , Bin Cui

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

Recent advances in generative modeling have substantially enhanced novel view synthesis, yet maintaining consistency across viewpoints remains challenging. Diffusion-based models rely on stochastic noise-to-data transitions, which obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuqin Wang , Tao Wu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lu Liu , Mingwei Sun , Yongliang Wang , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers

We propose Functional Flow Matching (FFM), a function-space generative model that generalizes the recently-introduced Flow Matching model to operate in infinite-dimensional spaces. Our approach works by first defining a path of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Gavin Kerrigan , Giosue Migliorini , Padhraic Smyth

Flow matching casts sample generation as learning a continuous-time velocity field that transports noise to data. Existing flow matching networks typically predict each point's velocity independently, considering only its location and time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber

The sharing of microdata, such as fund holdings and derivative instruments, by regulatory institutions presents a unique challenge due to strict data confidentiality and privacy regulations. These challenges often hinder the ability of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Recent advances in tabular data generation have greatly enhanced synthetic data quality. However, extending diffusion models to tabular data is challenging due to the intricately varied distributions and a blend of data types of tabular…

Flow matching (FM) has shown promising results in data-driven planning. However, it inherently lacks formal guarantees for ensuring state and action constraints, whose satisfaction is a fundamental and crucial requirement for the safety and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tzu-Yuan Huang , Armin Lederer , Dai-Jie Wu , Xiaobing Dai , Sihua Zhang , Stefan Sosnowski , Shao-Hua Sun , Sandra Hirche

Synthetic tabular data enables sharing and analysis of sensitive records, but its practical deployment requires balancing distributional fidelity, downstream utility, and privacy protection. We study a simple, model agnostic post processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 David Yavo , Richard Khoury , Christophe Pere , Sadoune Ait Kaci Azzou

Flow matching (FM) has gained significant attention as a simulation-free generative model. Unlike diffusion models, which are based on stochastic differential equations, FM employs a simpler approach by solving an ordinary differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Kenji Fukumizu , Taiji Suzuki , Noboru Isobe , Kazusato Oko , Masanori Koyama

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Privacy and regulatory constraints make data generation vital to advancing machine learning without relying on real-world datasets. A leading approach for tabular data generation is the Forest Flow (FF) method, which combines Flow Matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ange-Clément Akazan , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Ioannis Mitliagkas

Advances in generative modeling have recently been adapted to tabular data containing discrete and continuous features. However, generating mixed-type features that combine discrete states with an otherwise continuous distribution in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Markus Mueller , Kathrin Gruber , Dennis Fok

We introduce DP-FinDiff, a differentially private diffusion framework for synthesizing mixed-type tabular data. DP-FinDiff employs embedding-based representations for categorical features, reducing encoding overhead and scaling to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth