Normalizing flows are powerful generative models that learn an invertible mapping between complex data distributions and simple latent distributions, typically a standard normal density. However, this choice of latent density can impose unnecessary complexity on the learned flow transformation due to the topological mismatch between the latent and data densities, leading to slower training and suboptimal performance.
arXiv:2606. 29724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normalizing flows are powerful generative models that learn an invertible mapping between complex data distributions and simple latent distributions, typically a standard normal density.
arXiv:2505. 04486v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow matching models have shown great potential in image generation tasks among probabilistic generative models.
High-fidelity image generation faces a trade-off between speed and quality. Diffusion models produce strong visuals but require costly iterative sampling.
arXiv:2607. 21427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete flow matching provides a flexible framework for generative modeling on discrete structures.
arXiv:2605. 08398v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we show that Latent Flow-Matching (LFM) models are robust to different types of perturbations, including data reduction and model capacity shrinkage.
Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching. Along the way, the underlying techniques have become more complicated and various beliefs about what drives strong empirical performance have taken hold.
arXiv:2501. 09876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset.
arXiv:2509. 25228v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate density estimation is crucial for understanding complex high-dimensional data, but it becomes challenging when the data lies on or near low-dimensional manifolds.
arXiv:2602. 00797v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow-based methods have achieved significant success in various generative modeling tasks, capturing nuanced details within complex data distributions.
arXiv:2607. 19332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching.
arXiv:2607. 01275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) commonly assume a standard isotropic Gaussian prior over the latent space, an assumption that often fails to capture the true distribution of latent representations for complex datasets.
arXiv:2608. 10544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image restoration is fundamentally constrained by the tradeoff between distortion and perception: minimizing pixel-wise error yields over-smoothed results, whereas optimizing for perceptual realism often introduces structural deviations.