TAKO demonstrates real-time adversarial takeover of robotic diffusion policies via reusable universal patches on visual inputs, achieving 100% success in steering attacker-chosen trajectories across multiple tasks, encoders, and diffusion methods.
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Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
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We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for training CNFs based on regressing vector fields of fixed conditional probability paths. Flow Matching is compatible with a general family of Gaussian probability paths for transforming between noise and data samples -- which subsumes existing diffusion paths as specific instances. Interestingly, we find that employing FM with diffusion paths results in a more robust and stable alternative for training diffusion models. Furthermore, Flow Matching opens the door to training CNFs with other, non-diffusion probability paths. An instance of particular interest is using Optimal Transport (OT) displacement interpolation to define the conditional probability paths. These paths are more efficient than diffusion paths, provide faster training and sampling, and result in better generalization. Training CNFs using Flow Matching on ImageNet leads to consistently better performance than alternative diffusion-based methods in terms of both likelihood and sample quality, and allows fast and reliable sample generation using off-the-shelf numerical ODE solvers.
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- abstract We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for training CNFs based on regressing vector fields of fixed conditional probability paths. Flow Matching is compatible with a general family of Gaussian probability paths for transforming between noise and data samples -- which subsumes existing diffusion paths as specific instances. Interestingly, we find that employing FM with diffusion paths results in a more
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WavTTS is the first raw-waveform diffusion TTS model using DiT flow matching and multi-scale mel supervision that approaches SOTA latent zero-shot performance while beating prior end-to-end models.
AnyFlow enables any-step video diffusion by distilling flow-map transitions over arbitrary time intervals with on-policy backward simulation.
TrackCraft3R is the first method to repurpose a video diffusion transformer as a feed-forward dense 3D tracker via dual-latent representations and temporal RoPE alignment, achieving SOTA performance with lower compute.
Data geometry makes time identifiable from noisy interpolants at rate O(1/sqrt(d-k)), rendering the time-blindness gap asymptotically negligible relative to coupling variance.
Flux Matching generalizes score-based generative modeling by using a weaker objective that admits infinitely many non-conservative vector fields with the data as stationary distribution, enabling new design choices beyond traditional score matching.
A-CODE presents a fully atomic one-stage multimodal diffusion model for protein co-design that claims superior unconditional generation performance over prior one- and two-stage models plus a tenfold success-rate gain on hard binder-design tasks.
Derives closed-form posterior covariance for flow matching from divergence of velocity field, enabling post-hoc uncertainty on pre-trained models including one-step generators.
FMRG reformulates guidance as deterministic optimal control, deriving a single-trajectory method using the flow map that matches or exceeds baselines on reward-guided generation and inverse problems with 3 NFEs at text-to-image scale.
ReConText3D is the first replay-memory framework for continual text-to-3D generation that prevents catastrophic forgetting on new textual categories while preserving quality on previously seen classes.
Diffusion sampling from d-dimensional distributions requires at least ~sqrt(d) adaptive score queries when score estimates have polynomial accuracy.
OP-GRPO is the first off-policy GRPO method for flow-matching models that reuses trajectories via replay buffer and importance sampling corrections, matching on-policy performance with 34.2% of the training steps.
Generative diffusion and flow models are constructed to remain exactly on the Lorentz-invariant massless N-particle phase space manifold during sampling for particle physics applications.
FlowHijack is the first dynamics-aware backdoor attack on flow-matching VLAs that achieves high success rates with stealthy triggers while preserving benign performance and making malicious actions kinematically indistinguishable from normal ones.
Flow-GRPO is the first online RL method for flow matching models, raising GenEval accuracy from 63% to 95% and text-rendering accuracy from 59% to 92% with little reward hacking.
Normalizing flows are constructed by learning the velocity of a stochastic interpolant via a quadratic loss derived from its probability current, yielding an efficient ODE-based alternative to diffusion models.
QWERTY enables training-free motion control in pretrained image-to-video DiTs by warping the frame-invariant semantic subspace of queries in 3D full attention and using the predicted noise as self-guidance for latent optimization.
Proposes diffeomorphic optimization for manifold-constrained problems in generative models via flow maps, with Lie-group extensions for protein design showing metric improvements.
Self-conditioned flow language models solve fixed-point iterations, enabling fixed-point flow maps that distill into FMLM* which outperforms SOTA in few-step generation on OpenWebText.
Flow-Map GRPO uses anchored stochastic flow map composition to enable GRPO-based RL alignment of deterministic few-step flow-map generators while preserving their marginal paths.
Introduces a Bridge latent interface that maps mismatched student latents into teacher space, enabling distillation from modern diffusion teachers to compact one-step students and raising SD 1.5 HPSv3 from 5.4 to 9.4 while keeping one-step speed.
OOPSIEVERSE is a new damage-aware simulation benchmark for household robot manipulation that converts contact, thermal, and fluid signals into task-agnostic damage metrics and demonstrates uses in safer policy learning and benchmarking.
FlexiSLM is the first spoken language model supporting dynamic and controllable frame rates on speech input and output, outperforming fixed-rate 7B models at high quality and enabling faster inference at lower rates like 6.25 Hz.
MUSE shows that the native timestep embedding in diffusion models acts as a parameter-free steering signal for multi-task monocular depth and normal estimation via manifold decoupling in latent space.
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