The paper introduces DV-Flow, a flow‑matching framework that treats deterministic prediction as a parallel velocity component instead of embedding it within the generative process. This design stabilizes end‑to‑end training and unifies several existing methods as special cases, enabling direct comparison. Experiments on six real‑world datasets show that DV‑Flow consistently outperforms strong baselines in probabilistic time‑series forecasting.
arXiv:2601. 22495v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning flow matching models is a central challenge in settings with limited data, evolving distributions, or computational constraints.
By Gudrun Thorkelsdottir, Arindam Banerjee
arXiv:2606. 01081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-focused learning (DFL) trains predictive models by optimizing downstream decision quality rather than standalone prediction accuracy.
By Wyame Benslimane, Tinghan Ye, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Paul Grigas
The paper introduces DyProd-FM, a method for predictive flow matching that refits flow matching models on dyadic historical prefixes and selects among them using a sleeping Prod master. It achieves dynamic regret bounds of “~O(min{N_ω+1,1+√{TΩ}}) and ~O(min{N_μ+1,1+T^{1/3}V_μ^{2/3}}) in relative velocity risk variation Ω and target‑law variation V_μ, respectively, without requiring a drift budget. These bounds are shown to be optimal up to logarithmic factors for fixed, possibly nonconvex, neural classes.
By Aadithya Srikanth, Vaneet Aggarwal
Preconditioned Flow Matching introduces a precondition-then-match framework that transforms target distributions into more isotropic representations before training flow matching models. By reshaping intermediate distributions, the method improves conditioning, leading to better low-eigenvalue recovery and enhanced performance metrics such as FID, MMD, precision, and recall across Gaussian, Gaussian-mixture, and high-resolution image datasets. The approach is theoretically justified and empirically validated, with ablations showing gains stem from improved geometry rather than extra parameters.
By Shadab Ahamed, Eshed Gal, Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui, Simon Ghyselincks, Moshe Eliasof, Eldad Haber
arXiv:2605. 00155v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a central post-training tool for aligning large language models, but its training reward is only a learned proxy for true human utility.
By Yikai Wang, Shang Liu, Jose Blanchet