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Flow-based generative models provide strong unconditional priors for inverse problems, but guiding their dynamics for conditional generation remains challenging. Recent work casts training-free conditional generation in flow models as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 George Webber , Alexander Denker , Riccardo Barbano , Andrew J Reader

Generative models based on flow matching have emerged as a powerful paradigm for inverse problems, offering straighter trajectories and faster sampling compared to diffusion models. However, existing approaches often necessitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zehua Jiang , Fenghao Zhu , Xinquan Wang , Chongwen Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

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

Generative models have shown great promise as trajectory planners, given their affinity to modeling complex distributions and guidable inference process. Previous works have successfully applied these in the context of robotic manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reece O'Mahoney , Wanming Yu , Ioannis Havoutis

Flow-based generative modeling is a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in physical sciences that can be used for sampling and likelihood evaluation with much lower inference times than traditional methods. We propose to refine flows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Benjamin Holzschuh , Nils Thuerey

Flow Matching has limited ability in achieving one-step generation due to its reliance on learned curved trajectories. Previous studies have attempted to address this limitation by either modifying the coupling distribution to prevent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Yanning Shen

Flow matching has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to diffusion models, providing a continuous-time formulation for generative modeling and representation learning. Yet, we show that this framework suffers from a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Weili Zeng , Yichao Yan

New technologies such as Rectified Flow and Flow Matching have significantly improved the performance of generative models in the past two years, especially in terms of control accuracy, generation quality, and generation efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sen Fang , Hongbin Zhong , Yalin Feng , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Flow-based latent generative models such as Stable Diffusion 3 are able to generate images with remarkable quality, even enabling photorealistic text-to-image generation. Their impressive performance suggests that these models should also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Julius Erbach , Dominik Narnhofer , Andreas Dombos , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen , Konrad Schindler

Generative models are capable to address difficult problems with non-unique solutions like bandwidth extension and gap filling, removing highly non-linear artifacts from codecs, clipping and distortion, as opposed to removing linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Sebastian Braun

In image restoration, single-step discriminative mappings often lack fine details via expectation learning, whereas generative paradigms suffer from inefficient multi-step sampling and noise-residual coupling. To address this dilemma, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Jie Xiao , Dong Li , Jie Huang , Xueyang Fu

We introduce Flower, a solver for linear inverse problems. It leverages a pre-trained flow model to produce reconstructions that are consistent with the observed measurements. Flower operates through an iterative procedure over three steps:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mehrsa Pourya , Bassam El Rawas , Michael Unser

Taming the generation outcome of state of the art Diffusion and Flow-Matching (FM) models without having to re-train a task-specific model unlocks a powerful tool for solving inverse problems, conditional generation, and controlled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Heli Ben-Hamu , Omri Puny , Itai Gat , Brian Karrer , Uriel Singer , Yaron Lipman

Vision-Language Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) (Rombach et al., 2022) provide powerful generative priors for inverse problems. However, existing LDM-based inverse solvers typically require a large number of neural function evaluations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Alessio Spagnoletti , Tim Y. J. Wang , Marcelo Pereyra , O. Deniz Akyildiz

Recent advances in inverse problem solving have increasingly adopted flow priors over diffusion models due to their ability to construct straight probability paths from noise to data, thereby enhancing efficiency in both training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hossein Askari , Yadan Luo , Hongfu Sun , Fred Roosta

Simulating trajectories of dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in a wide range of fields such as molecular dynamics, biochemistry, and pedestrian dynamics. Machine learning has become an invaluable tool for scaling physics-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kiet Bennema ten Brinke , Koen Minartz , Vlado Menkovski

This paper addresses the problem of estimating link flows in a road network by combining limited traffic volume and vehicle trajectory data. While traffic volume data from loop detectors have been the common data source for link flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Miner Zhong , Jiwon Kim , Zuduo Zheng

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in domains such as image synthesis, video generation, and natural language modeling. In this work, we extend these advances to weight space learning by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Daniel Saragih , Deyu Cao , Tejas Balaji

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

Recent advances in flow-based generative models have enabled training-free, text-guided image editing by inverting an image into its latent noise and regenerating it under a new target conditional guidance. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Thinh Dao , Zhen Wang , Kien T. Pham , Long Chen
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