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Flow Matching enables simulation-free training of generative models on Riemannian manifolds, yet sampling typically still relies on numerically integrating a probability-flow ODE. We propose Riemannian MeanFlow (RMF), extending MeanFlow to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zichen Zhong , Haoliang Sun , Yukun Zhao , Yongshun Gong , Yilong Yin

Flow-based generative models, including diffusion models, excel at modeling continuous distributions in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we introduce Flow Policy Optimization (FPO), a simple on-policy reinforcement learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 David McAllister , Songwei Ge , Brent Yi , Chung Min Kim , Ethan Weber , Hongsuk Choi , Haiwen Feng , Angjoo Kanazawa

Diffusion models have shown great promise for image and video generation, but sampling from state-of-the-art models requires expensive numerical integration of a generative ODE. One approach for tackling this problem is rectified flows,…

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Diffusion and flow policies are gaining prominence in online reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressive power, yet training them efficiently remains a critical challenge. A fundamental difficulty in online RL is the lack of direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zeyang Li , Sunbochen Tang , Navid Azizan

Mean flow (MeanFlow) enables efficient, high-fidelity image generation, yet its single-function evaluation (1-NFE) generation often cannot yield compelling results. We address this issue by introducing RMFlow, an efficient multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Shih-Hsin Wang , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Bao Wang

Sampling from pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models typically requires many forward passes to generate diverse and high-fidelity images. Existing distillation methods often rely on multiple auxiliary networks, carefully designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Zhang , Chenyi Li , Guoqing Ma , Jiajun Zha , Yuanming Yang , Bo Wang , Wei Tang , Wenbo Li , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan

Real-time interactive video generation requires low-latency, streaming, and controllable rollout. Existing autoregressive (AR) diffusion distillation methods have achieved strong results in the chunk-wise 4-step regime by distilling…

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Diffusion models excel at generating diverse and multimodal trajectories for robotic planning, yet their iterative denoising process introduces latency that is incompatible with high-frequency closed-loop control. To address this problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lei Zheng , Peiqi Yu , Zengqi Peng , Changliu Liu , Armin Lederer

Existing Flow Matching (FM) text-to-image models suffer from two critical bottlenecks under multi-task alignment: the reward sparsity induced by scalar-valued rewards, and the gradient interference arising from jointly optimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhen Fang , Wenxuan Huang , Yu Zeng , Yiming Zhao , Shuang Chen , Kaituo Feng , Yunlong Lin , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Shaosheng Cao , Feng Zhao

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, their slow generation speed remains a critical challenge. Existing acceleration methods, while aiming to reduce steps, often compromise sample quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huiyang Shao , Xin Xia , Yuhong Yang , Yuxi Ren , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao

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

Flow-based image generative models exhibit stable training and produce high quality samples when using multi-step sampling procedures. One-step generative models can produce high quality image samples but can be difficult to optimize as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chia-Hong Hsu , Frank Wood

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable generation quality, but they suffer from significant inference cost due to their reliance on multiple sequential denoising steps, motivating recent efforts to distill this inference process into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zihan Yang , Shuyuan Tu , Licheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yu-Gang Jiang , Zuxuan Wu

Offline reinforcement learning often relies on behavior regularization that enforces policies to remain close to the dataset distribution. However, such approaches fail to distinguish between high-value and low-value actions in their…

Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in both image and video generation while still suffering from huge computation costs. As an effective solution, flow matching aims to reflow the diffusion process of diffusion models into…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lei Ke , Haohang Xu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Li , Jiajun Li , Haoling Li , Yuxuan Lin , Dongsheng Jiang , Yujiu Yang , Linfeng Zhang

Generative policies based on diffusion models and flow matching have shown strong promise for offline reinforcement learning (RL), but their applicability remains largely confined to continuous action spaces. To address a broader range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Fairoz Nower Khan , Nabuat Zaman Nahim , Ruiquan Huang , Haibo Yang , Peizhong Ju

Diffusion- and flow-based models have advanced Real-world Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR), but their multi-step sampling makes inference slow and hard to deploy. One-step distillation alleviates the cost, yet often degrades restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ruiqing Wang , Kai Zhang , Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Shilin Lu , Jian Yang

We provide a theoretical analysis for end-to-end training Discrete Flow Matching (DFM) generative models. DFM is a promising discrete generative modeling framework that learns the underlying generative dynamics by training a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Maojiang Su , Mingcheng Lu , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Shang Wu , Zhao Song , Alex Reneau , Han Liu

Generative models based on dynamical equations such as flows and diffusions offer exceptional sample quality, but require computationally expensive numerical integration during inference. The advent of consistency models has enabled…

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