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arXiv Machine Learning By Teo Deveney, Lea Bogensperger, Hok Shing Wong

Spanning Diffusion and Flow-based Posterior Sampling via Exact Gaussian Conditioning

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The paper introduces β‑Flow, a versatile plug‑and‑play posterior sampling framework that unifies flow‑matching, diffusion, and decorrelated priors through a correlation parameter β and a confidence parameter κ. Each iteration requires only a single denoising network forward pass followed by an exact Gaussian conditioning step, implemented as a Kalman update independent of network gradients. The authors demonstrate that many existing guided samplers are special cases of β‑Flow, and show state‑of‑the‑art performance on seven inverse problems across four datasets, with the ability to tune prior strength based on data informativeness.

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