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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

In this work we explore the advantages of end-to-end learning of multilayer maps offered by feed forward neural-networks (FFNN) for learning and predicting dynamics from transient fluid flow data.While machine learning in general depends on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Shivakanth Chary Puligilla , Balaji Jayaraman

Adapting to task changes without forgetting previous knowledge is a key skill for intelligent systems, and a crucial aspect of lifelong learning. Swarm controllers, however, are typically designed for specific tasks, lacking the ability to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Lorenzo Leuzzi , Simon Jones , Sabine Hauert , Davide Bacciu , Andrea Cossu

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

The density-distribution method has recently become a promising paradigm owing to its adaptability to variations in swarm size. However, existing studies face practical challenges in achieving complex shape representation and decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yichen Cai , Yuan Gao , Pengpeng Li , Wei Wang , Guibin Sun , Jinhu Lü

Sampling from high-dimensional distributions is a fundamental problem in statistical research and practice. However, great challenges emerge when the target density function is unnormalized and contains isolated modes. We tackle this…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-11 Yixuan Qiu , Xiao Wang

Climate change and the rapid growth of urban populations are intensifying environmental stresses within cities, making the behavior of urban atmospheric flows a critical factor in public health, energy use, and overall livability. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Nishant Kumar , Franck Kerhervé , Lionel Agostini , Laurent Cordier

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

The Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram is a popular tool used to describe traffic dynamics in an aggregated way, with applications ranging from traffic control to incident analysis. However, estimating the MFD for a given network requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amalie Roark , Serio Agriesti , Francisco Camara Pereira , Guido Cantelmo

We propose a novel sampled-data output-feedback controller for nonlinear systems of arbitrary relative degree that ensures reference tracking within prescribed error bounds. We provide explicit bounds on the maximum input signal and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Lukas Lanza , Dario Dennstädt , Karl Worthmann , Philipp Schmitz , Gökçen Devlet Şen , Stephan Trenn , Manuel Schaller

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

Diffusion and flow-based models have enabled significant progress in generation tasks across various modalities and have recently found applications in predictive learning. However, unlike typical generation tasks that encourage sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu Zhang , Xingzhuo Guo , Haoran Xu , Jialong Wu , Mingsheng Long

We discuss here the mean-field theory for a cellular automata model of meta-learning. The meta-learning is the process of combining outcomes of individual learning procedures in order to determine the final decision with higher accuracy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-13 Dariusz Plewczynski

Modern continuous-time generative models typically induce \emph{V-shaped} flows: each sample travels independently along a nearly straight trajectory from the prior to the data. Although effective, this independent movement overlooks the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Arip Asadulaev , Semyon Semenov , Abduragim Shtanchaev , Eric Moulines , Fakhri Karray , Martin Takac

We introduce manifold-learning flows (M-flows), a new class of generative models that simultaneously learn the data manifold as well as a tractable probability density on that manifold. Combining aspects of normalizing flows, GANs,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Johann Brehmer , Kyle Cranmer

Generative models such as diffusion models, excel at capturing high-dimensional distributions with diverse input modalities, e.g. robot trajectories, but are less effective at multi-step constraint reasoning. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)…

Sampling-based methods have become a cornerstone of contemporary approaches to Model Predictive Control (MPC), as they make no restrictions on the differentiability of the dynamics or cost function and are straightforward to parallelize.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots

Visual traversability estimation is critical for autonomous navigation, but existing VLM-based methods rely on hand-crafted prompts, generalize poorly across embodiments, and output only traversability maps, leaving trajectory generation to…

Future deep learning systems call for techniques that can deal with the evolving nature of temporal data and scarcity of annotations when new problems occur. As a step towards this goal, we present FUSION (Few-shot UnSupervIsed cONtinual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

In recent years, machine learning has been adopted to complex networks, but most existing works concern about the structural properties. To use machine learning to detect phase transitions and accurately identify the critical transition…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-08 Qi Ni , Ming Tang , Ying Liu , Ying-Cheng Lai