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Generative modeling has recently shown remarkable promise for visuomotor policy learning, enabling flexible and expressive control across diverse embodied AI tasks. However, existing generative policies often struggle with data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jianlei Chang , Ruofeng Mei , Wei Ke , Xiangyu Xu

Generative models have become increasingly powerful tools for robot motion generation, enabling flexible and multimodal trajectory generation across various tasks. Yet, most existing approaches remain limited in handling multiple types of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Zewen Yang , Xiaobing Dai , Dian Yu , Zhijun Li , Majid Khadiv , Sandra Hirche , Sami Haddadin

We propose \emph{Euler Mean Flows (EMF)}, a flow-based generative framework for one-step and few-step generation that enforces long-range trajectory consistency with minimal sampling cost. The key idea of EMF is to replace the trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhiqi Li , Yuchen Sun , Duowen Chen , Jinjin He , Bo Zhu

Generative modeling has recently achieved remarkable success across image, video, and audio domains, demonstrating powerful capabilities for unified representation learning. Yet speech front-end tasks such as speech enhancement (SE), target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Ziqian Wang , Zikai Liu , Yike Zhu , Xingchen Li , Boyi Kang , Jixun Yao , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Lei Xie

Learning-based optical flow estimation has been dominated with the pipeline of cost volume with convolutions for flow regression, which is inherently limited to local correlations and thus is hard to address the long-standing challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Dacheng Tao

Overparameterized deep networks have the capacity to memorize training data with zero \emph{training error}. Even after memorization, the \emph{training loss} continues to approach zero, making the model overconfident and the test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Takashi Ishida , Ikko Yamane , Tomoya Sakai , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

Given an inverse problem with a normalizing flow prior, we wish to estimate the distribution of the underlying signal conditioned on the observations. We approach this problem as a task of conditional inference on the pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-16 Jay Whang , Erik M. Lindgren , Alexandros G. Dimakis

There is growing interest in utilizing flow-based models as decision-making policies in reinforcement learning due to their high expressive capacity. However, effectively leveraging this expressivity for value maximization remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 JaeHyeok Doo , Byeongguk Jeon , Seonghyeon Ye , Kimin Lee , Minjoon Seo

In this work, we propose a novel generative learning paradigm, K-Flow, an algorithm that flows along the $K$-amplitude. Here, $k$ is a scaling parameter that organizes frequency bands (or projected coefficients), and amplitude describes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Weitao Du , Shuning Chang , Jiasheng Tang , Yu Rong , Fan Wang , Shengchao Liu

Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (MaxEnt RL) has become a standard framework for sequential decision making, yet its standard Gaussian policy parameterization is inherently unimodal, limiting its ability to model complex multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xubin Zhou , Yipeng Yang , Zhan Li

Current state-of-the-art generative models map noise to data distributions by matching flows or scores. A key limitation of these models is their inability to readily integrate available partial observations and additional priors. In…

Generative models have gained popularity for their potential applications in imaging science, such as image reconstruction, posterior sampling and data sharing. Flow-based generative models are particularly attractive due to their ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Varun A. Kelkar , Rucha Deshpande , Arindam Banerjee , Mark A. Anastasio

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) aims to recognize images from both the seen and unseen classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen to unseen classes. It is a promising solution to take the advantage of generative models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zhi Chen , Yadan Luo , Sen Wang , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang

Residential Load Profile (RLP) generation and prediction are critical for the operation and planning of distribution networks, especially as diverse low-carbon technologies (e.g., photovoltaic and electric vehicles) are increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Weijie Xia , Chenguang Wang , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

Flow matching has emerged as a promising generative approach that addresses the lengthy sampling times associated with state-of-the-art diffusion models and enables a more flexible trajectory design, while maintaining high-quality image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Arnela Hadzic , Franz Thaler , Lea Bogensperger , Simon Johannes Joham , Martin Urschler

We propose a physics-informed data-driven framework for urban wind estimation. This framework validates and incorporates the Reynolds number independence for flows under various working conditions, thus allowing the extrapolation for wind…

In this paper, we consider the interpretability of the foundational Laplacian-based semi-supervised learning approaches on graphs. We introduce a novel flow-based learning framework that subsumes the foundational approaches and additionally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-14 Raif M. Rustamov , James T. Klosowski

Zero-inflated outcomes, where responses are zero with positive probability and otherwise continuous, are common in biomedical, environmental, and social science studies. We propose a conformal prediction based framework that provides…

We propose a training-free conditional sampling method for flow matching models based on importance sampling. Because a na\"ive application of importance sampling suffers from weight degeneracy in high-dimensional settings, we modify and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-16 Qianqian Qu , Jun S. Liu