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Streamflow forecasting is key to effectively managing water resources and preparing for the occurrence of natural calamities being exacerbated by climate change. Here we use the concept of fast and slow flow components to create a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Miguel Paredes Quiñones , Maciel Zortea , Leonardo S. A. Martins

Flow Matching (FM) is a recent framework for generative modeling that has achieved state-of-the-art performance across various domains, including image, video, audio, speech, and biological structures. This guide offers a comprehensive and…

Flow matching as a paradigm of generative model achieves notable success across various domains. However, existing methods use either multi-round training or knowledge within minibatches, posing challenges in finding a favorable coupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Siyu Xing , Jie Cao , Huaibo Huang , Haichao Shi , Xiao-Yu Zhang

Conditional flow matching (CFM) has emerged as a powerful framework for training continuous normalizing flows due to its computational efficiency and effectiveness. However, standard CFM often produces paths that deviate significantly from…

Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs) enable elegant generative modeling but remain bottlenecked by slow sampling: producing a single sample requires solving a nonlinear ODE with hundreds of function evaluations. Recent approaches such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Erkan Turan , Aristotelis Siozopoulos , Louis Martinez , Julien Gaubil , Emery Pierson , Maks Ovsjanikov

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

Sampling from unnormalized target distributions, e.g.\ Boltzmann distributions $\mu_{\text{target}}(x) \propto \exp(-E(x)/T)$, is fundamental to many scientific applications yet computationally challenging due to complex, high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-22 Niclas Dern , Lennart Redl , Sebastian Pfister , Marcel Kollovieh , David Lüdke , Stephan Günnemann

Causal inconsistency arises when the underlying causal graphs captured by generative models like \textit{Normalizing Flows} (NFs) are inconsistent with those specified in causal models like \textit{Struct Causal Models} (SCMs). This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Qingyang Zhou , Kangjie Lu , Meng Xu

Modeling stochastic and irregularly sampled time series is a challenging problem found in a wide range of applications, especially in medicine. Neural stochastic differential equations (Neural SDEs) are an attractive modeling technique for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Xi Zhang , Yuan Pu , Yuki Kawamura , Andrew Loza , Yoshua Bengio , Dennis L. Shung , Alexander Tong

Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Arpit Sahni , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

Modern vision generators transport a base distribution to data through time-indexed measures, implemented as deterministic flows (ODEs) or stochastic diffusions (SDEs). Despite strong empirical performance, standard flow-matching objectives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chika Maduabuchi

Face restoration can be formulated as a continuous-time transformation between image distributions via Flow Matching (FM). However, standard FM typically employs independent coupling, ignoring the statistical correlation between low-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xiaohui Sun , Hanlin Wu

Correlation filters are special classifiers designed for shift-invariant object recognition, which are robust to pattern distortions. The recent literature shows that combining a set of sub-filters trained based on a single or a small group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Baochang Zhang , Shangzhen Luan , Chen Chen , Jungong Han , Wei Wang , Alessandro Perina , Ling Shao

Structured LLM workflows, where specialized LLM sub-agents execute according to a predefined graph, have become a powerful abstraction for solving complex tasks. Optimizing such workflows, i.e., selecting configurations for each sub-agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Junyan Li , Zhang-Wei Hong , Maohao Shen , Yang Zhang , Chuang Gan

We propose a machine-learning-based methodology for in-situ weather forecast postprocessing that is both spatially coherent and multivariate. Compared to previous work, our Flow MAtching Postprocessing (FMAP) better represents the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 David Landry , Claire Monteleoni , Anastase Charantonis

We present a formulation of flow matching as variational inference, which we refer to as variational flow matching (VFM). Based on this formulation we develop CatFlow, a flow matching method for categorical data. CatFlow is easy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Floor Eijkelboom , Grigory Bartosh , Christian Andersson Naesseth , Max Welling , Jan-Willem van de Meent

Matched filters are widely used to localise signal patterns due to their high efficiency and interpretability. However, their effectiveness deteriorates for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals, such as those recorded on edge devices,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Haozhe Tian , Qiyu Rao , Nina Moutonnet , Pietro Ferraro , Danilo Mandic

Generative models have excelled in audio tasks using approaches such as language models, diffusion, and flow matching. However, existing generative approaches for speech enhancement (SE) face notable challenges: language model-based methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Ziqian Wang , Zikai Liu , Xinfa Zhu , Yike Zhu , Mingshuai Liu , Jun Chen , Longshuai Xiao , Chao Weng , Lei Xie

Learning the dynamics of a process given sampled observations at several time points is an important but difficult task in many scientific applications. When no ground-truth trajectories are available, but one has only snapshots of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Oskar Kviman , Kirill Tamogashev , Nicola Branchini , Víctor Elvira , Jens Lagergren , Nikolay Malkin

Predicting spatio-temporal traffic flow presents significant challenges due to complex interactions between spatial and temporal factors. Existing approaches often address these dimensions in isolation, neglecting their critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Weilin Ruan , Wenzhuo Wang , Siru Zhong , Wei Chen , Li Liu , Yuxuan Liang