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:2606. 07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic histopathology image generation addresses critical challenges in computational pathology, including patient privacy and the growing need for large-scale training data for foundation models.
By Won June Cho, Daeky Jeong, Hyeongyeol Lim, Hongjun Yoon
arXiv:2603.02974v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: DINO models provide rich patch-level representations that have recently enabled strong performance in unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD). Most ex...
By Ertunc Erdil, Nico Schulthess, Guney Tombak, Ender Konukoglu
The paper introduces NS‑Flows, a flow‑based nested sampling method that replaces Markov‑chain updates with a conditional normalizing flow trained on live sets. By applying this technique to a Lennard‑Jones particle system, the authors achieve over two orders of magnitude fewer energy evaluations and a roughly one‑third reduction in wall‑clock time compared to traditional nested sampling. The study also shows that the flow’s generation efficiency varies non‑monotonically along the annealing trajectory, providing a diagnostic of the system’s internal mode complexity and identifying liquid‑like ensembles as the most challenging for current flow architectures.
By Alessandro Coretti, Nico Unglert, Sebastian Falkner, Georg K. H. Madsen, Christoph Dellago
arXiv:2410. 10137v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop Riemannian approaches to variational autoencoders (VAEs) for PDE-type ambient data with regularizing geometric latent dynamics, which we refer to as VAE-DLM, or VAEs with dynamical latent manifolds.
By Andrew Gracyk
arXiv:2603. 11756v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep generative models for anomaly detection in multivariate time-series are typically trained by maximizing observed data likelihood.
By David Baumgartner, Eliezer de Souza da Silva, I\~nigo Urteaga
arXiv:2601. 21026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sampling configurations at thermodynamic equilibrium is a central challenge in statistical physics.
By Louis Grenioux, Maxence Noble
arXiv:2608. 13652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generic event-level anomaly detection for collider physics has two recurring problems: anomaly scores are hard to interpret, and they correlate strongly with energy scale and object multiplicity.
By Haoyi Jia, Sagar Addepalli, Julia Gonski
arXiv:2603. 26842v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is essential for maintaining the reliability and security of IoT-enabled service systems.
By PengYu Chen, Shang Wan, Xiaohou Shi, Yuan Chang, Yan Sun, Sajal K. Das
arXiv:2608. 14186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular anomaly detection is dominated by classical density-proxy methods (Isolation Forest, OCSVM, LOF), reconstruction-based detectors (Autoencoders, VAEs), and modern non-parametric scorers (COPOD, ECOD, Deep SVDD), all of which approximate the inlier distribution only indirectly; explicit energy-based models are largely absent.
By Junichiro Niimi
arXiv:2601. 18823v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data.
By Alejandro Ascarate, Leo Lebrat, Rodrigo Santa Cruz, Clinton Fookes, Olivier Salvado
arXiv:2607. 27077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Energy-Based Models (EBMs) provide an interpretable framework for generative modeling of scientific data, but poor Markov Chain Monte Carlo mixing often limits their reliability.
By Nicolas B\'ereux, Aur\'elien Decelle, Cyril Furtlehner, Beatriz Seoane