arXiv:2607. 00535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-step flow-map generators, such as consistency models and MeanFlow, accelerate sampling by directly learning long-range transport maps between noise and data.
By Zhiqi Li, Wen Zhang, Bo Zhu
arXiv:2606. 16073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling from complex, unnormalized probability densities is a fundamental challenge in Bayesian inference and probabilistic modeling.
By Kirill Korolev, Nikita Morozov, Stepan Pavlenko, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Sergey Samsonov
arXiv:2605. 24942v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Steering a language model - intervening on its internal activations to change downstream behaviour - has recently expanded beyond linear interpolation to nonlinear methods such as angular and kernelized steering, which define intervention transformations without learning an explicit geometry over paths in activation space.
By Narmeen Oozeer, Shivam Raval, Philip Quirke, Manikandan Ravikiran, Jeff Phillips, Shriyash Upadhyay, Amirali Abdullah
The paper studies classifier‑free guidance (CFG) in Flow Matching, showing that strong guidance can distort the generated distribution by shifting the mean and concentrating trajectories. By interpreting Flow Matching as a time‑varying gradient flow, the authors explain how CFG reshapes the underlying potential and propose a training‑free method, Posterior‑Mean‑Capped CFG (PMC‑CFG), that adaptively limits guidance to the strongest feasible level. Experiments on synthetic and large‑scale image‑generation tasks demonstrate that PMC‑CFG reduces distortion and concentration while improving the alignment–diversity trade‑off, especially when nominal guidance is large.
By Jishen Peng, Zheng Ma
The paper introduces Flow Divergence Sampler (FDS), a training‑free method that refines intermediate states in flow‑matching models by using the divergence of the marginal velocity field to detect and correct misguidance toward low‑density regions. FDS operates during inference, requires no additional training, and can be applied as a plug‑and‑play module with standard solvers and existing flow backbones. Experiments show that FDS consistently improves fidelity in tasks such as text‑to‑image synthesis and inverse problems.
By Yeonwoo Cha, Jaehoon Yoo, Semin Kim, Yunseo Park, Jinhyeon Kwon, Seunghoon Hong
arXiv:2604. 27147v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In generative modeling, we often wish to produce samples that maximize a user-specified reward such as aesthetic quality or alignment with human preferences, a problem known as \textit{guidance}.
By Jerry Y. Huang, Justin Lin, Sheel Shah, Kartik Nair, Nicholas M. Boffi
RW-Flow presents a new one‑step generative framework for data on compact manifolds, leveraging Wasserstein gradient flows. The authors derive a necessary and sufficient identifiability condition for velocity fields on compact, connected Riemannian manifolds, showing that a symmetric, Lipschitz‑continuous cost function yields identifiability iff its Gibbs kernel is nondegenerate. Experiments on geospatial events, protein and RNA torsion angles, and discretized manifolds demonstrate that RW‑Flow surpasses existing one‑step methods across most benchmark settings.
By Ualibyek Nurgulan, Seungwoo Yoo, Prin Phunyaphibarn, Minhyuk Sung
arXiv:2610.01034v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Bayesian inference increasingly uses informative but implicit priors represented only by samples, such as historical ensembles, simulator outputs, an...
By Hoang Phuc Hau Luu, Marcelo Hartmann, Zhongjian Wang
arXiv:2604. 14698v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have recently emerged as expressive policy representations for online reinforcement learning (RL).
By Xiaoyi Dong, Xi Sheryl Zhang, Jian Cheng
arXiv:2608. 03967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have emerged as a flexible framework for amortised inference over discrete and mixed discrete-continuous objects, requiring only an unnormalised target density specified through a reward.
By Yordan Raykov, Rodrigo Veiga
The paper introduces a pullback Riemannian geometry tailored for multimodal data by employing a latent Gaussian mixture model. It defines a smooth, positive‑definite metric based on responsibility‑weighted component precision, extending the standard single‑Gaussian construction. Experiments on synthetic, multi‑view image, and MNIST datasets demonstrate reduced transport distortion, accurate trajectory recovery, and more realistic interpolation.
By Honglei Brinkmann, Lucas Ng, Georgios Batzolis, Mark Girolami, Carola-Bibiane Sch\"onlieb, Willem Diepeveen
arXiv:2606. 01098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative action policies based on diffusion or flow matching excel in behavior cloning, yet their iterative sampling is prohibitive for high-frequency robot control.
By Zemin Yang, Yaoyu He, Yiming Zhong, Yuhao Zhang, Xinge Zhu, Yao Mu, Qingqiu Huang, Yuexin Ma