arXiv Machine Learning

PMosFM: Preconditioned Manifold Matching for One-Step Physics-Constrained Generation

arXiv AI
Jul 2

SNAP-FM: Sparse Nonlinear Accelerated Projection for Physics-Constrained Generative Modeling

arXiv:2607. 00095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models have emerged as scalable surrogates for physical simulation, yet they offer no guarantee that their outputs respect the conservation laws, boundary conditions, and nonlinear invariants that govern the underlying physics.

By Alaina Kolli, Theodoros Xenakis, Utkarsh Utkarsh, Pengfei Cai, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Alan Edelman, Christopher Vincent Rackauckas
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Composing Flow-Matching Energies with Known Physics: Generation, OOD Detection, and Inversion on PDE Fields

The paper presents a method that combines flow‑matching models with energy‑based modeling to explicitly construct scalar energy functions for physical fields. These energies are derived from a matching regression objective on a linear Gaussian interpolation, avoiding variational approximations or extra MCMC steps, and can be used for energy‑corrected data generation, out‑of‑distribution detection, and posterior sampling in inverse problems. The approach enables general MCMC samplers that reduce PDE residuals and spectral distance, and it demonstrates that combining data‑driven and physics‑based energies improves OOD detection accuracy.

By Yixuan Sun, Anirban Samaddar, Sandeep Madireddy
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Training-Free Refinement of Flow Matching with Divergence-based Sampling

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 Machine Learning
Jun 8

ScatterPrism: convergence for generative simulation and inverse problems in particle and nuclear physics

arXiv:2604. 01313v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity simulations and complex inverse problems, such as detector modeling and unfolding, are computationally intensive bottlenecks across subatomic physics, yet essential for accurate physical interpretation.

By Zeyu Xia, Tyler Kim, Trevor Reed, Judy Fox, Geoffrey Fox, Adam Szczepaniak
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Trajectory-Aware Flow Matching for Topology Optimisation

arXiv:2607. 14652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Topology optimisation (TO) often requires repeated finite element analysis and sensitivity-based material updates, which can be costly when multiple candidate designs are needed under varying physical and design conditions.

By Shusheng Xiao, Jinshuai Bai, Hyogu Jeong, Yunfei Xi, Yilin Gui, YuanTong Gu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Exploring the Design Space of Reward Backpropagation for Flow Matching

arXiv:2606. 11075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning text-to-image flow matching models with human preferences via direct reward backpropagation is sample-efficient but hampered by two well-known pathologies: activations cannot be stored across the full sampling trajectory at modern model scale, and chained Jacobian products across steps inflate the reward gradient as it travels back to early indices.

By Ruoyu Wang, Boye Niu, Xiangxin Zhou, Yushi Huang, Tongliang Liu, Chi Zhang