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Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has been successfully applied to learn deep generative models for characterizing a joint distribution of variables via kernel mean embedding. In this paper, we present conditional generative moment- matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Yong Ren , Jialian Li , Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu

In this paper, we present a comprehensive theoretical comparison of diffusion and flow matching under the Generator Matching framework. Despite their apparent differences, both diffusion and flow matching can be viewed under the unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zeeshan Patel , James DeLoye , Lance Mathias

Generative models like Flow Matching have achieved state-of-the-art performance but are often hindered by a computationally expensive iterative sampling process. To address this, recent work has focused on few-step or one-step generation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yi Guo , Wei Wang , Zhihang Yuan , Rong Cao , Kuan Chen , Zhengyang Chen , Yuanyuan Huo , Yang Zhang , Yuping Wang , Shouda Liu , Yuxuan Wang

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

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) distills score-based generative models into efficient one-step generators, without requiring a one-to-one correspondence with the sampling trajectories of their teachers. Yet, the limited capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangyu Fan , Zesong Qiu , Zhuguanyu Wu , Fanzhou Wang , Zhiqian Lin , Tianxiang Ren , Dahua Lin , Ruihao Gong , Lei Yang

With the rapidly growing model complexity and data volume, training deep generative models (DGMs) for better performance has becoming an increasingly more important challenge. Previous research on this problem has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yufan Zhou , Chunyuan Li , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

In this paper, we consider the conditional generation problem by guiding off-the-shelf unconditional diffusion models with differentiable loss functions in a plug-and-play fashion. While previous research has primarily focused on balancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Youyuan Zhang , Zehua Liu , Zenan Li , Zhaoyu Li , James J. Clark , Xujie Si

MeanFlow offers a promising framework for one-step generative modeling by directly learning a mean-velocity field, bypassing expensive numerical integration. However, we find that the highly curved generative trajectories of existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xinxi Zhang , Shiwei Tan , Quang Nguyen , Quan Dao , Ligong Han , Xiaoxiao He , Tunyu Zhang , Chengzhi Mao , Dimitris Metaxas , Vladimir Pavlovic

Flow-based frame interpolation methods ensure motion stability through estimated intermediate flow but often introduce severe artifacts in complex motion regions. Recent generative approaches, boosted by large-scale pre-trained video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Guozhen Zhang , Yuhan Zhu , Yutao Cui , Xiaotong Zhao , Kai Ma , Limin Wang

Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, little work has been done on examining or empowering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Tianlin Shi , Bo Zhang

Generative models can have distinct mode of failures like mode dropping and low quality samples, which cannot be captured by a single scalar metric. To address this, recent works propose evaluating generative models using precision and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Alexandre Verine , Benjamin Negrevergne , Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Yann Chevaleyre

Flow-based Generative Models (FGMs) effectively transform noise into complex data distributions. Incorporating Optimal Transport (OT) to couple noise and data during FGM training has been shown to improve the straightness of flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Lingkai Kong , Molei Tao , Yang Liu , Bryan Wang , Jinmiao Fu , Chien-Chih Wang , Huidong Liu

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have achieved remarkable empirical success, motivating their application to a broad range of data distributions. However, extending them to heavy-tailed targets remains a largely open problem. Although…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Tiziano Fassina , Gabriel Cardoso , Sylvan Le Corff , Thomas Romary

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yexiong Lin , Jia Shi , Shanshan Ye , Wanyu Wang , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu

We propose a manifold matching approach to generative models which includes a distribution generator (or data generator) and a metric generator. In our framework, we view the real data set as some manifold embedded in a high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mengyu Dai , Haibin Hang

Consistency-based generative models like Shortcut and MeanFlow achieve impressive results via a target-aware design for solving the Probability Flow ODE (PF-ODE). Typically, such methods introduce a target time $r$ alongside the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Peng Sun , Xinyi Shang , Tao Lin , Zhiqiang Shen

Generative modelling has seen significant advances through simulation-free paradigms such as Flow Matching, and in particular, the MeanFlow framework, which replaces instantaneous velocity fields with average velocities to enable efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yang Cao , Yubin Chen , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

In many practical transfer learning scenarios, the feature distribution is different across the source and target domains (i.e. non-i.i.d.). Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), as a domain discrepancy metric, has achieved promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Lei Zhang , Shanshan Wang , Guang-Bin Huang , Wangmeng Zuo , Jian Yang , David Zhang

Generation of graphs is a major challenge for real-world tasks that require understanding the complex nature of their non-Euclidean structures. Although diffusion models have achieved notable success in graph generation recently, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jaehyeong Jo , Dongki Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

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