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Diffusion models have recently shown great promise for generative modeling, outperforming GANs on perceptual quality and autoregressive models at density estimation. A remaining downside is their slow sampling time: generating high quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tim Salimans , Jonathan Ho

Controlling generative models is computationally expensive. This is because optimal alignment with a reward function--whether via inference-time steering or fine-tuning--requires estimating the value function. This task demands access to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-22 Peter Potaptchik , Adhi Saravanan , Abbas Mammadov , Alvaro Prat , Michael S. Albergo , Yee Whye Teh

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, generative modeling remains difficult: a dataset may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Lincen Yang , Jiayang Shi , Zhao Yang , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Despite their strong performances on many generative tasks, diffusion models require a large number of sampling steps in order to generate realistic samples. This has motivated the community to develop effective methods to distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Weijian Luo , Zemin Huang , Zhengyang Geng , J. Zico Kolter , Guo-jun Qi

Flow-based 3D generation models typically require dozens of sampling steps during inference. Though few-step distillation methods, particularly Consistency Models (CMs), have achieved substantial advancements in accelerating 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zanwei Zhou , Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Chen Yang , Lingxi Xie , Xinggang Wang , Wei Shen , Qi Tian

Class-incremental learning aims to learn new classes in an incremental fashion without forgetting the previously learned ones. Several research works have shown how additional data can be used by incremental models to help mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Quentin Jodelet , Xin Liu , Yin Jun Phua , Tsuyoshi Murata

Recent advancements in generative modeling, particularly diffusion models, have opened new directions for time series modeling, achieving state-of-the-art performance in forecasting and synthesis. However, the reliance of diffusion-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Marcel Kollovieh , Marten Lienen , David Lüdke , Leo Schwinn , Stephan Günnemann

Generative motion prediction must satisfy three simultaneous requirements for real-world autonomy: high accuracy, diverse multimodal futures, and strictly bounded latency. Diffusion models meet the first two but violate the third, requiring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Leandro Di Bella , Adrian Munteanu , Bruno Cornelis

Flow matching is a recent framework to train generative models that exhibits impressive empirical performance while being relatively easier to train compared with diffusion-based models. Despite its advantageous properties, prior methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Binh Nguyen , Anh Tran

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

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM), a simulation-free method for training continuous normalizing flows, provides an efficient alternative to diffusion models for key tasks like image and video generation. The performance of CFM in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aram Davtyan , Leello Tadesse Dadi , Volkan Cevher , Paolo Favaro

Discrete flow-based models are a recently proposed class of generative models that learn invertible transformations for discrete random variables. Since they do not require data dequantization and maximize an exact likelihood objective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Alexandra Lindt , Emiel Hoogeboom

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in text and image generation but suffer from slow generation due to the token-by-token process. We ask an ambitious question: can a pre-trained AR model be adapted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Enshu Liu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang , Zinan Lin

We introduce the concept of compactly representing a large number of state sequences, e.g., sequences of activities, as a flow diagram. We argue that the flow diagram representation gives an intuitive summary that allows the user to detect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , Stef Sijben

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 investigate a family of approximate multi-step proximal point methods, framed as implicit linear discretizations of gradient flow. The resulting methods are multi-step proximal point methods, with similar computational cost in each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Yushen Huang , Yifan Sun

Neural network compression and acceleration are widely demanded currently due to the resource constraints on most deployment targets. In this paper, through analyzing the filter activation, gradients, and visualizing the filters'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Fuxun Yu , Zhuwei Qin , Xiang Chen

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

We introduce Prior-Informed Flow Matching (PIFM), a conditional flow model for graph reconstruction. Reconstructing graphs from partial observations remains a key challenge; classical embedding methods often lack global consistency, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Harvey Chen , Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra

Safety-critical applications such as autonomous vehicles and social robots require fast computation and accurate probability density estimation on trajectory prediction. To address both requirements, this paper presents a new normalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Takahiro Maeda , Norimichi Ukita