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