English
Related papers

Related papers: Frequency-Aware Flow Matching for High-Quality Ima…

200 papers

Building on the success of diffusion models in visual generation, flow-based models reemerge as another prominent family of generative models that have achieved competitive or better performance in terms of both visual quality and inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wenliang Zhao , Minglei Shi , Xumin Yu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful method for generative modeling on domains like images or videos, and even on irregular or unstructured data like 3D point clouds or even protein structures. These models are commonly trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuyang Wang , Anurag Ranjan , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

Flow models are effective at progressively generating realistic images, but they generally struggle to capture long-range dependencies during the generation process as they compress all the information from previous time steps into a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mude Hui , Rui-Jie Zhu , Songlin Yang , Yu Zhang , Zirui Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Jason Eshraghian , Cihang Xie

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free method for learning a continuous and invertible flow to interpolate between two distributions, and in particular to generate data from noise. Inspired by the variational nature of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

Flow maps enable high-quality image generation in a single forward pass. However, unlike iterative diffusion models, their lack of an explicit sampling trajectory impedes incorporating external constraints for conditional generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abbas Mammadov , So Takao , Bohan Chen , Ricardo Baptista , Morteza Mardani , Yee Whye Teh , Julius Berner

Diffusion models can learn rich representations during data generation, showing potential for Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), but they face a trade-off between generative quality and discriminative performance. Their iterative sampling also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kosuke Ukita , Tsuyoshi Okita

Data heterogeneity hinders clinical deployment of medical image analysis models, and generative data augmentation helps mitigate this issue. However, recent diffusion-based methods that synthesize image-mask pairs often ignore distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Jie Yang , Ziqi Ye , Aihua Ke , Jian Luo , Bo Cai , Xiaosong Wang

The rapid progression of generative AI (GenAI) technologies has heightened concerns regarding the misuse of AI-generated imagery. To address this issue, robust detection methods have emerged as particularly compelling, especially in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Hongfei Cai , Chi Liu , Sheng Shen , Youyang Qu , Peng Gui

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

This research addresses the challenge of developing a universal deepfake detector that can effectively identify unseen deepfake images despite limited training data. Existing frequency-based paradigms have relied on frequency-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Chuangchuang Tan , Yao Zhao , Shikui Wei , Guanghua Gu , Ping Liu , Yunchao Wei

Generative models can produce nonsensical text, unrealistic images, and unstable materials faster than simulation or human review can absorb; without per-sample confidence, trust erodes. Existing fixes run $k$ ensembles or stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Friso de Kruiff , Dario Coscia , Max Welling , Erik Bekkers

Existing few-shot image generation approaches typically employ fusion-based strategies, either on the image or the feature level, to produce new images. However, previous approaches struggle to synthesize high-frequency signals with fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Mengping Yang , Zhe Wang , Ziqiu Chi , Wenyi Feng

Generative models have achieved remarkable progress with the emergence of flow matching (FM). It has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and attracted significant attention as a simulation-free flow-based framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Hoang Anh Nguyen Kim , Toan Nguyen Hai , Long Tran Quoc

Recent diffusion and flow matching models have demonstrated strong capabilities in image generation and editing by progressively removing noise through iterative sampling. While this enables flexible inversion for semantic-preserving edits,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yasong Dai , Zeeshan Hayder , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Hongdong Li

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Flow-matching models deliver state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video generation, but the inherent sequential denoising process renders them slower. Existing acceleration methods like distillation, trajectory truncation, and consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Dhruv Bhardwaj , Soumya Roy , Tejas Duseja , Harsh Agarwal , Aashay Sandansing , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Despite Flow Matching and diffusion models having emerged as powerful generative paradigms for continuous variables such as images and videos, their application to high-dimensional discrete data, such as language, is still limited. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Itai Gat , Tal Remez , Neta Shaul , Felix Kreuk , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Gabriel Synnaeve , Yossi Adi , Yaron Lipman

Flow-based generative models are powerful exact likelihood models with efficient sampling and inference. Despite their computational efficiency, flow-based models generally have much worse density modeling performance compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ho , Xi Chen , Aravind Srinivas , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel

Flow Matching has emerged as a powerful framework for learning continuous transformations between distributions, enabling high-fidelity generative modeling. This work introduces Symmetrical Flow Matching (SymmFlow), a new formulation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Peter H. N. De With , Fons van der Sommen