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Flow Matching (FM) is a recent generative modelling technique: we aim to learn how to sample from distribution $\mathfrak{X}_1$ by flowing samples from some distribution $\mathfrak{X}_0$ that is easy to sample from. The key trick is that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Finn M. Sherry , Bart M. N. Smets

Semantic segmentation and semantic image synthesis are two representative tasks in visual perception and generation. While existing methods consider them as two distinct tasks, we propose a unified framework (SemFlow) and model them as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chaoyang Wang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Henghui Ding , Yunhai Tong , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Human motion synthesis is a fundamental task in computer animation. Recent methods based on diffusion models or GPT structure demonstrate commendable performance but exhibit drawbacks in terms of slow sampling speeds and error accumulation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Vincent Tao Hu , Wenzhe Yin , Pingchuan Ma , Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Yuki M Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Pascal Mettes , Bjorn Ommer , Cees G. M. Snoek

Despite tremendous recent progress, Flow Matching methods still suffer from exposure bias due to discrepancies in training and inference. This paper investigates the root causes of exposure bias in Flow Matching, including: (1) the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Guanbo Huang , Jingjia Mao , Fanding Huang , Fengkai Liu , Xiangyang Luo , Yaoyuan Liang , Jiasheng Lu , Xiaoe Wang , Pei Liu , Ruiliu Fu , Shao-Lun Huang

Diffusion Models have emerged as a leading class of generative models, yet their iterative sampling process remains computationally expensive. Timestep distillation is a promising technique to accelerate generation, but it often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Guanjie Chen , Shirui Huang , Kai Liu , Jianchen Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Peng Chen , Yu Cheng , Yifu Sun

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have established a new state-of-the-art in generative image synthesis, yet their deployment is hindered by significant computational overhead during inference, often requiring up to 1,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Srishti Gupta , Yashasvee Taiwade

Few-step video generation has been significantly advanced by consistency distillation. However, the performance of consistency-distilled models often degrades as more sampling steps are allocated at test time, limiting their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuchao Gu , Guian Fang , Yuxin Jiang , Weijia Mao , Song Han , Han Cai , Mike Zheng Shou

Diffusion and flow-based models have become the state of the art for generative AI across a wide range of data modalities, including images, videos, shapes, molecules, music, and more. This tutorial provides a self-contained introduction to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peter Holderrieth , Ezra Erives

Diffusion models excel in high-quality generation but suffer from slow inference due to iterative sampling. While recent methods have successfully transformed diffusion models into one-step generators, they neglect model size reduction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yuanzhi Zhu , Xingchao Liu , Qiang Liu

Flow-based generative models have recently shown impressive performance for conditional generation tasks, such as text-to-image generation. However, current methods transform a general unimodal noise distribution to a specific mode of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Noam Issachar , Mohammad Salama , Raanan Fattal , Sagie Benaim

We introduce RewardFlow, an inversion-free framework that steers pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models at inference time through multi-reward Langevin dynamics. RewardFlow unifies complementary differentiable rewards for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Onkar Susladkar , Dong-Hwan Jang , Tushar Prakash , Adheesh Juvekar , Vedant Shah , Ayush Barik , Nabeel Bashir , Muntasir Wahed , Ritish Shrirao , Ismini Lourentzou

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

Flow matching (FM) has gained significant attention as a simulation-free generative model. Unlike diffusion models, which are based on stochastic differential equations, FM employs a simpler approach by solving an ordinary differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Kenji Fukumizu , Taiji Suzuki , Noboru Isobe , Kazusato Oko , Masanori Koyama

This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Flow Matching has recently gained attention in generative modeling as a simple and flexible alternative to diffusion models. While existing statistical guarantees adapt tools from the analysis of diffusion models, we take a different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Lea Kunkel , Mathias Trabs

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nicholas M. Boffi , Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Flow-based generation in high-dimensional spaces is difficult because velocity prediction requires modeling high-dimensional noise, even when data has strong low-rank structure. We present Asymmetric Flow Modeling (AsymFlow), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hansheng Chen , Jan Ackermann , Minseo Kim , Gordon Wetzstein , Leonidas Guibas

Although diffusion models in text-to-speech have become a popular choice due to their strong generative ability, the intrinsic complexity of sampling from diffusion models harms their efficiency. Alternatively, we propose VoiceFlow, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Diffusion-based or flow-based models have achieved significant progress in video synthesis but require multiple iterative sampling steps, which incurs substantial computational overhead. While many distillation methods that are solely based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yanxiao Sun , Jiafu Wu , Yun Cao , Chengming Xu , Yabiao Wang , Weijian Cao , Donghao Luo , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

In multi-center scenarios, One-Shot Federated Learning (OSFL) has attracted increasing attention due to its low communication overhead, requiring only a single round of transmission. However, existing generative model-based OSFL methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yufei Ma , Hanwen Zhang , Qiya Yang , Guibo Luo , Yuesheng Zhu