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Many real-world applications of flow-based generative models desire a diverse set of samples that cover multiple modes of the target distribution. However, the predominant approach for obtaining diverse sets is not sample-efficient, as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mashrur M. Morshed , Vishnu Boddeti

The recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) show promising results on the novel view synthesis (NVS) task. With its superior rendering performance and high-fidelity rendering quality, 3DGS is excelling at its previous NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yu Chen , Gim Hee Lee

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a competitive approach for novel view synthesis (NVS) due to its advanced rendering efficiency through 3D Gaussian projection and blending. However, Gaussians are treated equally weighted for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zhihao Guo , Peng Wang , Zidong Chen , Xiangyu Kong , Yan Lyu , Guanyu Gao , Liangxiu Han

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

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

Finding a suitable layout represents a crucial task for diverse applications in graphic design. Motivated by simpler and smoother sampling trajectories, we explore the use of Flow Matching as an alternative to current diffusion-based layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro , Naoto Inoue , Kento Masui , Mayu Otani , Hideki Nakayama

Dataset Condensation aims to condense a large dataset into a smaller one while maintaining its ability to train a well-performing model, thus reducing the storage cost and training effort in deep learning applications. However, conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Yipeng Qin , Yizhou Yu

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 has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling through continuous normalizing flows. We investigate a potential topological constraint: when the prior distribution and target distribution have mismatched topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Congzhou M Sha

We study Flow Matching in a semi-discrete setting where a Gaussian source is transported toward a discrete target supported on finitely many points. This semi-discrete regime is the theoretical setting behind the use of Flow Matching for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Emile Pierret , Johannes Hertrich , Samuel Hurault , Julie Delon

Modeling the time-varying 3D appearance of plants during growth poses unique challenges: unlike most dynamic scenes, plants continuously generate new geometry as they expand, branch, and differentiate. Existing dynamic scene representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Weihan Luo , Lily Goli , Sherwin Bahmani , Felix Taubner , Andrea Tagliasacchi , David B. Lindell

In production rendering systems, caustics are typically rendered via photon mapping and gathering, a process often hindered by insufficient photon density. In this paper, we propose a novel photon guiding method to improve the photon…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jiawei Huang , Hajime Tanaka , Taku Komura , Yoshifumi Kitamura

Modern vision language pipelines are driven by RGB vision encoders trained on massive image text corpora. While these pipelines have enabled impressive zero-shot capabilities and strong transfer across tasks, they still inherit two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yasmine Omri , Connor Ding , Tsachy Weissman , Thierry Tambe

Flow matching (FM) is a family of training algorithms for fitting continuous normalizing flows (CNFs). Conditional flow matching (CFM) exploits the fact that the marginal vector field of a CNF can be learned by fitting least-squares…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Ganchao Wei , Li Ma

This study presents a conditional flow matching framework for solving physics-constrained Bayesian inverse problems. In this setting, samples from the joint distribution of inferred variables and measurements are assumed available, while…

Strong-lensing images provide a wealth of information both about the magnified source and about the dark matter distribution in the lens. Precision analyses of these images can be used to constrain the nature of dark matter. However, this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Konstantin Karchev , Adam Coogan , Christoph Weniger

The performance of flow matching and diffusion models can be greatly improved at inference time using reward alignment algorithms, yet efficiency remains a major limitation. While several algorithms were proposed, we demonstrate that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Peter Holderrieth , Uriel Singer , Tommi Jaakkola , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Yaron Lipman , Brian Karrer

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful generative framework that have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, the high computational cost of training DMs limits their practical applications. In this paper, we start with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tianshuo Xu , Peng Mi , Ruilin Wang , Yingcong Chen

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields that guide transformations from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Hertrich , Antonin Chambolle , Julie Delon