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In this work, we propose WaveFlow, a small-footprint generative flow for raw audio, which is directly trained with maximum likelihood. It handles the long-range structure of 1-D waveform with a dilated 2-D convolutional architecture, while…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Wei Ping , Kainan Peng , Kexin Zhao , Zhao Song

Flow Matching and Transformer architectures have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation tasks, with recent work FlowAR [Ren et al., 2024] synergistically integrating both paradigms to advance synthesis fidelity. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yingyu Liang , Zhizhou Sha , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Mingda Wan

Data scarcity and weak supervision continue to limit the performance of machine learning models in many real-world applications, such as mammography, where Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) often offers the best formulation. While recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nikola Jovišić , Milica Škipina , Vanja Švenda

Few-step generation has been a long-standing goal, with recent one-step generation methods exemplified by MeanFlow achieving remarkable results. Existing research on MeanFlow primarily focuses on class-to-image generation. However, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxi Zhao , Chen Zhu , Xiaokun Feng , Aiming Hao , Jiashu Zhu , Jiachen Lei , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Jufeng Yang

Diffusion and flow-matching models achieve remarkable generative performance but at the cost of many sampling steps, this slows inference and limits applicability to time-critical tasks. The ReFlow procedure can accelerate sampling by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Beomsu Kim , Yu-Guan Hsieh , Michal Klein , Marco Cuturi , Jong Chul Ye , Bahjat Kawar , James Thornton

Auto-regressive text generation models usually focus on local fluency, and may cause inconsistent semantic meaning in long text generation. Further, automatically generating words with similar semantics is challenging, and hand-crafted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ruiyi Zhang , Changyou Chen , Zhe Gan , Wenlin Wang , Dinghan Shen , Guoyin Wang , Zheng Wen , Lawrence Carin

Diffusion-based generative methods have proven effective in modeling trajectories with offline datasets. However, they often face computational challenges and can falter in generalization, especially in capturing temporal abstractions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Chang Chen , Fei Deng , Kenji Kawaguchi , Caglar Gulcehre , Sungjin Ahn

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a powerful ability for text generation. However, achieving optimal results with a given prompt or instruction can be challenging, especially for billion-sized models. Additionally, undesired…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Lifu Tu , Semih Yavuz , Jin Qu , Jiacheng Xu , Rui Meng , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou

Current pre-training works in natural language generation pay little attention to the problem of exposure bias on downstream tasks. To address this issue, we propose an enhanced multi-flow sequence to sequence pre-training and fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Dongling Xiao , Han Zhang , Yukun Li , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

We present DeFlow, a decoupled offline RL framework that leverages flow matching to faithfully capture complex behavior manifolds. Optimizing generative policies is computationally prohibitive, typically necessitating backpropagation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhancun Mu

Modern text-to-image diffusion models encode rich visual priors, but expose them only through one-way text-conditioned generation. Existing unified vision--language models derived from them recover bidirectional capability through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Eric Tillmann Bill , Enis Simsar , Alessio Tonioni , Thomas Hofmann

We consider the task of data-to-text generation, which aims to create textual output from non-linguistic input. We focus on generating long-form text, i.e., documents with multiple paragraphs, and propose a neural model enhanced with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ratish Puduppully , Yao Fu , Mirella Lapata

The deployment and scaling of large language models (LLMs) have become critical as they permeate various applications, demanding high-throughput and low-latency serving systems. Existing frameworks struggle to balance these requirements,…

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have shown excellent generalization abilities. However, adapting these large-scale models to downstream tasks while preserving their generalization capabilities remains challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hao Zheng , Shunzhi Yang , Zhuoxin He , Jinfeng Yang , Zhenhua Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive instruction following capabilities, while still struggling to accurately manage the length of the generated text, which is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yuxuan Gu , Wenjie Wang , Xiaocheng Feng , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Lei Huang , Tat-Seng Chua , Bing Qin

Large language models (LLMs) have been applied to a wide range of tasks, including text summarization, web navigation, and chatbots. They have benefitted from supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Ryan Aponte , Ryan A. Rossi , Shunan Guo , Franck Dernoncourt , Tong Yu , Xiang Chen , Subrata Mitra , Nedim Lipka

Creating good type error messages for constraint-based type inference systems is difficult. Typical type error messages reflect implementation details of the underlying constraint-solving algorithms rather than the specific factors leading…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ishan Bhanuka , Lionel Parreaux , David Binder , Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser

This project introduces a hierarchical planner integrating Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) constraints with natural language prompting for robot motion planning. The framework decomposes maps into regions, generates directed graphs, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jingzhan Ge , Zi-Hao Zhang , Sheng-En Huang

Image-to-image (I2I) translation comprises a wide spectrum of tasks. Here we divide this problem into three levels: strong-fidelity translation, normal-fidelity translation, and weak-fidelity translation, indicating the extent to which the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Weichen Fan , Jinghuan Chen , Ziwei Liu

In recent years, the increasing frequency of extreme urban rainfall events has posed significant challenges to emergency scheduling systems. Urban flooding often leads to severe traffic congestion and service disruptions, threatening public…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Peilin Ji , Xiao Xue , Simeng Wang , Wenhao Yan