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Diffusion models deliver state-of-the-art generative performance across diverse modalities but remain computationally expensive due to their inherently iterative sampling process. Existing training-free acceleration methods typically…

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Steering large-scale swarms with only limited control updates is often needed due to communication or computational constraints, yet most learning-based approaches do not account for this and instead model instantaneous velocity fields. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Anqi Dong , Yongxin Chen , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, particularly for text-to-image generation. Despite its flexibility in allowing arbitrary source distributions, most existing approaches rely…

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Diffusion models like Stable Diffusion (SD) drive a vibrant open-source ecosystem including fully fine-tuned checkpoints and parameter-efficient adapters such as LoRA, LyCORIS, and ControlNet. However, these adaptation components are…

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We propose Flow Mismatching, an unsupervised anomaly detection method that deliberately avoids reconstruction-based paradigms. Instead, we treat flow matching as geometric dynamics and leverage a key insight: anomalies occur at places where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shengzhe Chen , Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar , Hao Yan

Diffusion models achieve strong generative performance but often rely on large datasets that may include sensitive content. This challenge is compounded by the models' tendency to memorize training data, raising privacy concerns. SFBD (Lu…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haoye Lu , Darren Lo , Yaoliang Yu

We propose Delta Rectified Flow Sampling (DRFS), a novel inversion-free, path-aware editing framework within rectified flow models for text-to-image editing. DRFS is a distillation-based method that explicitly models the discrepancy between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gaspard Beaudouin , Minghan Li , Jaeyeon Kim , Sung-Hoon Yoon , Mengyu Wang

Enhancing the efficiency of high-quality image generation using Diffusion Models (DMs) is a significant challenge due to the iterative nature of the process. Flow Matching (FM) is emerging as a powerful generative modeling paradigm based on…

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Rectified Flow offers a simple and effective approach to high-quality generative modeling by learning a velocity field. However, we identify a limitation in directly modeling the velocity with an unconstrained neural network: the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xixi Hu , Runlong Liao , Keyang Xu , Bo Liu , Yeqing Li , Eugene Ie , Hongliang Fei , Qiang Liu

The growing demand for text-to-image generation has led to rapid advances in generative modeling. Recently, text-to-image diffusion models trained with flow matching algorithms, such as FLUX, have achieved remarkable progress and emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zikai Zhou , Muyao Wang , Shitong Shao , Lichen Bai , Haoyi Xiong , Bo Han , Zeke Xie

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Flow matching models have shown great potential in image generation tasks among probabilistic generative models. However, most flow matching models in the literature do not explicitly utilize the underlying clustering structure in the…

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We analyze the training of a two-layer autoencoder used to parameterize a flow-based generative model for sampling from a high-dimensional Gaussian mixture. Previous work shows that the phase where the relative probability between the modes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Santiago Aranguri , Francesco Insulla

Flow matching (FM) is a general framework for defining probability paths via Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) to transform between noise and data samples. Recent approaches attempt to straighten these flow trajectories to generate…

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Continuous-time generative models, such as Flow Matching (FM), construct probability paths to transport between one distribution and another through the simulation-free learning of the neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs). During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Qunxi Zhu , Wei Lin

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-fidelity content but suffer from slow, iterative sampling, resulting in high latency that limits their use in interactive applications. We introduce DRiffusion, a parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Runsheng Bai , Chengyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng

Imperfect score-matching leads to a shift between the training and the sampling distribution of diffusion models. Due to the recursive nature of the generation process, errors in previous steps yield sampling iterates that drift away from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Giannis Daras , Yuval Dagan , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Constantinos Daskalakis

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful generative framework that have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, the high computational cost of training DMs limits their practical applications. In this paper, we start with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tianshuo Xu , Peng Mi , Ruilin Wang , Yingcong Chen

Small-scale turbulence can be comprehensively described in terms of velocity gradients, which makes them an appealing starting point for low-dimensional modeling. Typical models consist of stochastic equations based on closures for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-01 Maurizio Carbone , Vincent J. Peterhans , Alexander S. Ecker , Michael Wilczek

Current density modeling approaches suffer from at least one of the following shortcomings: expensive training, slow inference, approximate likelihood, mode collapse or architectural constraints like bijective mappings. We propose a simple…

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