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The aim of this paper is to adapt the general multitime maximum principle to a Riemannian setting. More precisely, we intend to study geometric optimal control problems constrained by the metric compatibility evolution PDE system; the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Andreea Bejenaru , Constantin Udriste

The generation of accurate 3D molecular conformations is a pivotal challenge in computational chemistry and drug discovery. Recently, diffusion and flow matching models have achieved remarkable success. However, there is a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yunqing Liu , Yi Zhou , Wenqi Fan

Accelerated gradient descent iterations are widely used in optimization. It is known that, in the continuous-time limit, these iterations converge to a second-order differential equation which we refer to as the accelerated gradient flow.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mohammad Farazmand

We propose Riemannian Flow Matching (RFM), a simple yet powerful framework for training continuous normalizing flows on manifolds. Existing methods for generative modeling on manifolds either require expensive simulation, are inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yaron Lipman

Despite Flow Matching and diffusion models having emerged as powerful generative paradigms for continuous variables such as images and videos, their application to high-dimensional discrete data, such as language, is still limited. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Itai Gat , Tal Remez , Neta Shaul , Felix Kreuk , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Gabriel Synnaeve , Yossi Adi , Yaron Lipman

We introduce a general-purpose method for optimising the mixing rate of advective fluid flows. An existing velocity field is perturbed in a $C^1$ neighborhood to maximize the mixing rate for flows generated by velocity fields in this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-30 Gary Froyland , Naratip Santitissadeekorn

Diffusion and flow-matching have emerged as powerful methodologies for generative modeling, with remarkable success in capturing complex data distributions and enabling flexible guidance at inference time. Many downstream applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zeyang Li , Kaveh Alim , Navid Azizan

In this paper we provide a thorough, rigorous theoretical framework to assess optimality guarantees of sampling-based algorithms for drift control systems: systems that, loosely speaking, can not stop instantaneously due to momentum. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Edward Schmerling , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone

Generative modeling is typically framed as learning mapping rules, but from an observer's perspective without access to these rules, the task becomes disentangling the geometric support from the probability distribution. We propose that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-04 Rui Tong

Symmetry is fundamental to understanding physical systems and can improve performance and sample efficiency in machine learning. Both pursuits require knowledge of the underlying symmetries in data, yet discovering these symmetries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuxuan Chen , Jung Yeon Park , Floor Eijkelboom , Jianke Yang , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Lawson L. S. Wong , Robin Walters

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

Diffusion models and their variations, such as rectified flows, generate diverse and high-quality images, but they are still hindered by slow iterative sampling caused by the highly curved generative paths they learn. An important cause of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Nazir Nayal , Christopher Wewer , Jan Eric Lenssen

In network flow problems, there is a well-known one-to-one relationship between extreme points of the feasibility region and trees in the associated undirected graph. The same is true for the dual differential problem. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 René Brandenberg , Paul Stursberg

Recent work on self-organized remodeling of vasculature in slime-mold, leaf venation systems and vessel systems in vertebrates has put forward a plethora of potential adaptation mechanisms. All these share the underlying hypothesis of a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Felix Kramer , Carl D. Modes

This paper presents a novel framework for aligning learnable latent spaces to arbitrary target distributions by leveraging flow-based generative models as priors. Our method first pretrains a flow model on the target features to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yizhuo Li , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ping Luo

Flow-based generative models are composed of invertible transformations between two random variables of the same dimension. Therefore, flow-based models cannot be adequately trained if the dimension of the data distribution does not match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hyeongju Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Woo Hyun Kang , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim

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

This study proposes a novel topology optimization method for unsteady fluid flows induced by actively moving rigid bodies. The key idea of the proposed method is to decouple the design and analysis domains by using separate grids. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yuta Tanabe , Kentaro Yaji , Kuniharu Ushijima

Designing high-performing networks requires optimizing for functionality while respecting physical, geometric, or budget constraints. Yet, mathematical and computational tools to design such systems remain limited, particularly for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-14 Guram Mikaberidze , Dane Taylor

In this paper we consider random access wireless multi-hop mesh networks with multi-packet reception capabilities where multiple flows are forwarded to the gateways through node disjoint paths. We address the issue of aggregate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Manolis Ploumidis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis