English
Related papers

Related papers: Linearized Coupling Flow with Shortcut Constraints…

200 papers

Image fusion is a fundamental and important task in computer vision, aiming to combine complementary information from different modalities to fuse images. In recent years, diffusion models have made significant developments in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zirui Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Tianwei Guan , Yuhan Zhou , Xingyuan Li , Minjing Dong , Jinyuan Liu

The multi-step denoising process in diffusion and Flow Matching models causes major efficiency issues, which motivates research on few-step generation. We present Solution Flow Models (SoFlow), a framework for one-step generation from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tianze Luo , Haotian Yuan , Zhuang Liu

Image downscaling and upscaling are two basic rescaling operations. Once the image is downscaled, it is difficult to be reconstructed via upscaling due to the loss of information. To make these two processes more compatible and improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Shang Li , Guixuan Zhang , Zhengxiong Luo , Jie Liu , Zhi Zeng , Shuwu Zhang

Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to learn complex skills from demonstrations without explicit task modeling, but it typically requires large amounts of demonstrations, creating significant collection costs. Prior work has investigated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Runze Tang , Penny Sweetser

Automatic black-and-white image sequence colorization while preserving character and object identity (ID) is a complex task with significant market demand, such as in cartoon or comic series colorization. Despite advancements in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Junhao Zhuang , Xuan Ju , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yong Liu , Shiyi Zhang , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

We introduce $\texttt{PairFlow}$, a lightweight preprocessing step for training Discrete Flow Models (DFMs) to achieve few-step sampling without requiring a pretrained teacher. DFMs have recently emerged as a new class of generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingue Park , Jisung Hwang , Seungwoo Yoo , Kyeongmin Yeo , Minhyuk Sung

MeanFlow (MF) has recently been established as a framework for one-step generative modeling. However, its ``fastforward'' nature introduces key challenges in both the training objective and the guidance mechanism. First, the original MF's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhengyang Geng , Yiyang Lu , Zongze Wu , Eli Shechtman , J. Zico Kolter , Kaiming He

We present Consistent-Recurrent Feature Flow Transformer (CRFT), a unified coarse-to-fine framework based on feature flow learning for robust cross-modal image registration. CRFT learns a modality-independent feature flow representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xuecong Liu , Mengzhu Ding , Zixuan Sun , Zhang Li , Xichao Teng

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) on flow-based models is crucial for preference alignment. However, they often introduce visual hallucinations like over-optimized details and semantic misalignment. This work preliminarily explores why visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiaofeng Tan , Jun Liu , Yuanting Fan , Bin-Bin Gao , Xi Jiang , Xiaochen Chen , Jinlong Peng , Chengjie Wang , Hongsong Wang , Feng Zheng

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

We present FlowLM, a flow matching language model transformed from pre-trained diffusion language models via efficient fine-tuning. By re-aligning the curved sampling trajectories of diffusion models into straight-line flows, FlowLM enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Runzhe Zhang , Letian Chen , Wenpeng Zhang , Zhouhan Lin , Peilin Zhao

Reducing communication overhead in federated learning (FL) is challenging but crucial for large-scale distributed privacy-preserving machine learning. While methods utilizing sparsification or others can largely lower the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhou , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Qing Ye , Yanan Sun , Jiancheng Lv

In optical flow estimation task, coarse-to-fine (C2F) warping strategy is widely used to deal with the large displacement problem and provides efficiency and speed. However, limited by the small search range between the first images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Suihanjin Yu , Youmin Zhang , Chen Wang , Xiao Bai , Liang Zhang , Edwin R. Hancock

The Reflow operation aims to straighten the inference trajectories of the rectified flow during training by constructing deterministic couplings between noises and images, thereby improving the quality of generated images in single-step or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jimin Dai , Jiexi Yan , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

Defect segmentation is central to computer vision based inspection of infrastructure assets during both construction and operation. However, deployment remains limited due to scarce pixel-level labels and domain shift across environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Babak Asadi , Peiyang Wu , Mani Golparvar-Fard , Ramez Hajj

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Performing facial expression transfer under one-shot setting has been increasing in popularity among research community with a focus on precise control of expressions. Existing techniques showcase compelling results in perceiving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Siddharth Nijhawan , Takuya Yashima , Tamaki Kojima

To address memory and computation resource limitations for hardware-oriented acceleration of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), we present a computation flow, stacked filters stationary flow (SFS), and a corresponding data encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Yuechao Gao , Nianhong Liu , Sheng Zhang

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) learn an ordinary differential equation to transform prior samples into data. Flow matching (FM) has recently emerged as a simulation-free approach for training CNFs by regressing a velocity model towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Tianyu Xie , Yu Zhu , Longlin Yu , Tong Yang , Ziheng Cheng , Shiyue Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Cheng Zhang