arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Variational Streaming Flow: Probabilistic Forecasting in Physical Time

Variational Streaming Flow (VSF) extends the efficient Streaming Flow (SF) framework by learning a latent distribution conditioned on system dynamics, enabling probabilistic forecasting in physical time. Unlike SF’s deterministic velocity field, VSF produces multiple plausible future trajectories, improving predictive accuracy and distributional fidelity across deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems. The method supports long‑horizon rollouts over 1,000 steps, handles bifurcating dynamics, and can be integrated as a plug‑and‑play predictor into Joint‑Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) world models to enhance navigation, motion planning, and manipulation tasks.

By Hans Hao-Hsun Hsu, Minseon Gwak, Soon Hoe Lim, Pan Li, N. Benjamin Erichson
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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
3d ago

Deterministic Prediction as Global Velocity: Flow Matching for Probabilistic Time-Series Forecast

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.