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Flow-Based Models

Normalizing flows and flow matching

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Also includes: normalizing flows, flow models, flow matching, continuous normalizing flows

Top Papers

#1

One-step Diffusion with Distribution Matching Distillation

Tianwei Yin, Michaël Gharbi, Richard Zhang et al.

CVPR 2024
543
citations
#2

Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling

Zhengyang Geng, Mingyang Deng, Xingjian Bai et al.

NeurIPS 2025
143
citations
#3

Adjoint Matching: Fine-tuning Flow and Diffusion Generative Models with Memoryless Stochastic Optimal Control

Carles Domingo i Enrich, Michal Drozdzal, Brian Karrer et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2409.08861
flow matchingdiffusion modelsstochastic optimal controlreward fine-tuning+3
116
citations
#4

Taming Rectified Flow for Inversion and Editing

Jiangshan Wang, Junfu Pu, Zhongang Qi et al.

ICML 2025
110
citations
#5

DepthFM: Fast Generative Monocular Depth Estimation with Flow Matching

Ming Gui, Johannes Schusterbauer, Ulrich Prestel et al.

AAAI 2025
82
citations
#6

OmniGlue: Generalizable Feature Matching with Foundation Model Guidance

Hanwen Jiang, Arjun Karpur, Bingyi Cao et al.

CVPR 2024
68
citations
#7

Boosting Consistency in Story Visualization with Rich-Contextual Conditional Diffusion Models

Fei Shen, Hu Ye, Sibo Liu et al.

AAAI 2025
62
citations
#8

Sundial: A Family of Highly Capable Time Series Foundation Models

Yong Liu, Guo Qin, Zhiyuan Shi et al.

ICML 2025
55
citations
#9

Generalized Large-Scale Data Condensation via Various Backbone and Statistical Matching

Shitong Shao, Zeyuan Yin, Muxin Zhou et al.

CVPR 2024
54
citations
#10

Inductive Moment Matching

Linqi (Alex) Zhou, Stefano Ermon, Jiaming Song

ICML 2025
54
citations
#11

Goku: Flow Based Video Generative Foundation Models

Shoufa Chen, Chongjian GE, Yuqi Zhang et al.

CVPR 2025arXiv:2502.04896
rectified flow transformersjoint image-video generationtext-to-image generationtext-to-video generation+4
53
citations
#12

Flow Q-Learning

Seohong Park, Qiyang Li, Sergey Levine

ICML 2025
52
citations
#13

Local Search GFlowNets

Minsu Kim, Yun Taeyoung, Emmanuel Bengio et al.

ICLR 2024
48
citations
#14

EraseAnything: Enabling Concept Erasure in Rectified Flow Transformers

Daiheng Gao, Shilin Lu, Wenbo Zhou et al.

ICML 2025
47
citations
#15

Rectified Diffusion: Straightness Is Not Your Need in Rectified Flow

Fu-Yun Wang, Ling Yang, Zhaoyang Huang et al.

ICLR 2025
46
citations
#16

FlowVQTalker: High-Quality Emotional Talking Face Generation through Normalizing Flow and Quantization

Shuai Tan, Bin Ji, Ye Pan

CVPR 2024
41
citations
#17

Latent Space Editing in Transformer-Based Flow Matching

Vincent Tao Hu, Wei Zhang, Meng Tang et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2312.10825
latent space editingflow matchingtransformer-based u-vitgenerative modeling+3
38
citations
#18

Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Normalizing Flow Modeling for Unified Anomaly Detection

Xincheng Yao, Ruoqi Li, Zefeng Qian et al.

ECCV 2024
29
citations
#19

Simple ReFlow: Improved Techniques for Fast Flow Models

Beomsu Kim, Yu-Guan Hsieh, Michal Klein et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2410.07815
flow-matching modelsdiffusion modelsfast samplingneural odes+4
28
citations
#20

Unified Generative Modeling of 3D Molecules with Bayesian Flow Networks

Yuxuan Song, Jingjing Gong, Hao Zhou et al.

ICLR 2024
28
citations
#21

OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows

Shufan Li, Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Akash Gokul et al.

CVPR 2025
26
citations
#22

Energy-Weighted Flow Matching for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Shiyuan Zhang, Weitong Zhang, Quanquan Gu

ICLR 2025arXiv:2503.04975
energy guidancegenerative modelingflow matchingdiffusion models+2
24
citations
#23

Meta Flow Matching: Integrating Vector Fields on the Wasserstein Manifold

Lazar Atanackovic, Xi (Nicole) Zhang, Brandon Amos et al.

ICLR 2025
22
citations
#24

Bayesian Prompt Flow Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

Zhen Qu, Xian Tao, Xinyi Gong et al.

CVPR 2025
22
citations
#25

How to build a consistency model: Learning flow maps via self-distillation

Nicholas Boffi, Michael Albergo, Eric Vanden-Eijnden

NeurIPS 2025
21
citations
#26

Flow: Modularized Agentic Workflow Automation

Boye Niu, Yiliao Song, Kai Lian et al.

ICLR 2025
21
citations
#27

FUDOKI: Discrete Flow-based Unified Understanding and Generation via Kinetic-Optimal Velocities

Jin Wang, Yao Lai, Aoxue Li et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2505.20147
discrete flow matchingmultimodal large language modelsimage generationvisual understanding+4
20
citations
#28

Inference-Time Scaling for Flow Models via Stochastic Generation and Rollover Budget Forcing

Jaihoon Kim, Taehoon Yoon, Jisung Hwang et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2503.19385
flow modelsinference-time scalingparticle samplingstochastic differential equations+4
20
citations
#29

On the Closed-Form of Flow Matching: Generalization Does Not Arise from Target Stochasticity

Quentin Bertrand, Anne Gagneux, Mathurin Massias et al.

NeurIPS 2025
19
citations
#30

Efficient Diversity-Preserving Diffusion Alignment via Gradient-Informed GFlowNets

Zhen Liu, Tim Xiao, Weiyang Liu et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2412.07775
diffusion model alignmentgenerative flow networksreward finetuningdiversity preservation+4
19
citations
#31

LayoutFlow: Flow Matching for Layout Generation

Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro, Naoto Inoue, Kento Masui et al.

ECCV 2024
19
citations
#32

StableVC: Style Controllable Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Conditional Flow Matching

Jixun Yao, Yang Yuguang, Yu Pan et al.

AAAI 2025
19
citations
#33

Traffic Flow Optimisation for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding

Zhe Chen, Daniel Harabor, Jiaoyang Li et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2308.11234
multi-agent path findingtraffic flow optimizationcollision-free path planningcongestion avoidance+4
18
citations
#34

SynFlowNet: Design of Diverse and Novel Molecules with Synthesis Constraints

Miruna Cretu, Charles Harris, Ilia Igashov et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2405.01155
generative modelscomputer-aided drug designsynthetic accessibilitychemical reaction space+4
18
citations
#35

Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows

Jeremy Cohen, Alex Damian, Ameet Talwalkar et al.

ICLR 2025
18
citations
#36

On the Guidance of Flow Matching

Ruiqi Feng, Chenglei Yu, Wenhao Deng et al.

ICML 2025
17
citations
#37

TechSinger: Technique Controllable Multilingual Singing Voice Synthesis via Flow Matching

Wenxiang Guo, Yu Zhang, Changhao Pan et al.

AAAI 2025
16
citations
#38

Learning to Optimize Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling via Graph-Based Imitation Learning

Longkang Li, Siyuan Liang, Zihao Zhu et al.

AAAI 2024arXiv:2210.17178
permutation flow shop schedulinggraph-based imitation learningmanufacturing systems optimizationlarge-scale scheduling problems+4
16
citations
#39

Wasserstein Flow Matching: Generative Modeling Over Families of Distributions

Doron Haviv, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, Dana Pe'er et al.

ICML 2025
15
citations
#40

Generative Flows on Synthetic Pathway for Drug Design

Seonghwan Seo, Minsu Kim, Tony Shen et al.

ICLR 2025
14
citations
#41

Joint Velocity-Growth Flow Matching for Single-Cell Dynamics Modeling

Dongyi Wang, Yuanwei Jiang, Zhenyi Zhang et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2505.13413
flow matchingsingle-cell dynamicsoptimal transportvelocity learning+4
14
citations
#42

A Periodic Bayesian Flow for Material Generation

Hanlin Wu, Yuxuan Song, Jingjing Gong et al.

ICLR 2025
13
citations
#43

MVTokenFlow: High-quality 4D Content Generation using Multiview Token Flow

Hanzhuo Huang, Yuan Liu, Ge Zheng et al.

ICLR 2025
13
citations
#44

UFM: A Simple Path towards Unified Dense Correspondence with Flow

Yuchen Zhang, Nikhil Keetha, Chenwei Lyu et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2506.09278
dense image correspondenceoptical flow estimationwide-baseline matchingunified correspondence model+4
13
citations
#45

F3Loc: Fusion and Filtering for Floorplan Localization

Changan Chen, Rui Wang, Christoph Vogel et al.

CVPR 2024
13
citations
#46

ZeroFlow: Scalable Scene Flow via Distillation

Kyle Vedder, Neehar Peri, Nathaniel Chodosh et al.

ICLR 2024
12
citations
#47

Flow matching achieves almost minimax optimal convergence

Kenji Fukumizu, Taiji Suzuki, Noboru Isobe et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2405.20879
flow matchingwasserstein distanceconvergence analysisgenerative modeling+2
12
citations
#48

Physics-Constrained Flow Matching: Sampling Generative Models with Hard Constraints

Utkarsh Utkarsh, Pengfei Cai, Alan Edelman et al.

NeurIPS 2025
12
citations
#49

OmniStyle: Filtering High Quality Style Transfer Data at Scale

Ye Wang, Ruiqi Liu, Jiang Lin et al.

CVPR 2025
11
citations
#50

Neural Sampling from Boltzmann Densities: Fisher-Rao Curves in the Wasserstein Geometry

Jannis Chemseddine, Christian Wald, Richard Duong et al.

ICLR 2025
11
citations
#51

ReinFlow: Fine-tuning Flow Matching Policy with Online Reinforcement Learning

Tonghe Zhang, Chao Yu, Sichang Su et al.

NeurIPS 2025
10
citations
#52

Diff2Flow: Training Flow Matching Models via Diffusion Model Alignment

Johannes Schusterbauer, Ming Gui, Frank Fundel et al.

CVPR 2025
10
citations
#53

Motion and Structure from Event-based Normal Flow

Zhongyang Ren, Bangyan Liao, Delei Kong et al.

ECCV 2024
10
citations
#54

ReQFlow: Rectified Quaternion Flow for Efficient and High-Quality Protein Backbone Generation

Angxiao Yue, Zichong Wang, Hongteng Xu

ICML 2025
9
citations
#55

Bellman Optimal Stepsize Straightening of Flow-Matching Models

Bao Nguyen, Binh Nguyen, Viet Anh Nguyen

ICLR 2024
9
citations
#56

UnSAMFlow: Unsupervised Optical Flow Guided by Segment Anything Model

Shuai Yuan, Lei Luo, Zhuo Hui et al.

CVPR 2024
9
citations
#57

Boosting Flow-based Generative Super-Resolution Models via Learned Prior

Li-Yuan Tsao, Yi-Chen Lo, Chia-Che Chang et al.

CVPR 2024
9
citations
#58

StreamingFlow: Streaming Occupancy Forecasting with Asynchronous Multi-modal Data Streams via Neural Ordinary Differential Equation

Yining Shi, Kun JIANG, Ke Wang et al.

CVPR 2024
8
citations
#59

Energy Matching: Unifying Flow Matching and Energy-Based Models for Generative Modeling

Michal Balcerak, Tamaz Amiranashvili, Antonio Terpin et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2504.10612
energy-based modelsflow matchinggenerative modelingoptimal transport paths+4
8
citations
#60

Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching Models

Hansheng Chen, Kai Zhang, Hao Tan et al.

ICML 2025
8
citations
#61

Flow-Based Policy for Online Reinforcement Learning

Lei Lv, Yunfei Li, Yu Luo et al.

NeurIPS 2025
8
citations
#62

UAV-Flow Colosseo: A Real-World Benchmark for Flying-on-a-Word UAV Imitation Learning

Xiangyu Wang, Donglin Yang, Yue Liao et al.

NeurIPS 2025
8
citations
#63

Deeply Supervised Flow-Based Generative Models

Inkyu Shin, Chenglin Yang, Liang-Chieh Chen

ICCV 2025arXiv:2503.14494
flow-based generative modelsvelocity representation learningtransformer layer supervisionintermediate feature alignment+3
8
citations
#64

Amortized Sampling with Transferable Normalizing Flows

Charlie Tan, Majdi Hassan, Leon Klein et al.

NeurIPS 2025
7
citations
#65

FlowR: Flowing from Sparse to Dense 3D Reconstructions

Tobias Fischer, Samuel Rota Bulò, Yung-Hsu Yang et al.

ICCV 2025arXiv:2504.01647
3d gaussian splattingnovel view synthesismulti-view generationflow matching+4
7
citations
#66

Modeling Cell Dynamics and Interactions with Unbalanced Mean Field Schrödinger Bridge

Zhenyi Zhang, Zihan Wang, Yuhao Sun et al.

NeurIPS 2025
7
citations
#67

vesselFM: A Foundation Model for Universal 3D Blood Vessel Segmentation

Bastian Wittmann, Yannick Wattenberg, Tamaz Amiranashvili et al.

CVPR 2025
7
citations
#68

CONTRA: Conformal Prediction Region via Normalizing Flow Transformation

Zhenhan FANG, Aixin Tan, Jian Huang

ICLR 2025
7
citations
#69

Neural Context Flows for Meta-Learning of Dynamical Systems

Roussel Desmond Nzoyem, David Barton, Tom Deakin

ICLR 2025arXiv:2405.02154
neural ordinary differential equationsmeta-learning frameworkuncertainty estimationcontextual self-modulation+3
7
citations
#70

SSL-STMFormer Self-Supervised Learning Spatio-Temporal Entanglement Transformer for Traffic Flow Prediction

Zetao Li, Zheng Hu, Peng Han et al.

AAAI 2025
7
citations
#71

Momentum Multi-Marginal Schrödinger Bridge Matching

Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Augustinos Saravanos, Evangelos Theodorou et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2506.10168
schrödinger bridge matchingmulti-marginal optimal controlmeasure-valued splinesstochastic bridges+4
6
citations
#72

Flowing Datasets with Wasserstein over Wasserstein Gradient Flows

Clément Bonet, Christophe Vauthier, Anna Korba

ICML 2025
6
citations
#73

FlowCut: Rethinking Redundancy via Information Flow for Efficient Vision-Language Models

Jintao Tong, Wenwei Jin, Pengda Qin et al.

NeurIPS 2025
6
citations
#74

Learning Distances from Data with Normalizing Flows and Score Matching

Peter Sorrenson, Daniel Behrend-Uriarte, Christoph Schnörr et al.

ICML 2025
6
citations
#75

Semantic Flow: Learning Semantic Fields of Dynamic Scenes from Monocular Videos

Fengrui Tian, Yueqi Duan, Angtian Wang et al.

ICLR 2024
6
citations
#76

Analyze Feature Flow to Enhance Interpretation and Steering in Language Models

Daniil Laptev, Nikita Balagansky, Yaroslav Aksenov et al.

ICML 2025
6
citations
#77

Utilize the Flow Before Stepping into the Same River Twice: Certainty Represented Knowledge Flow for Refusal-Aware Instruction Tuning

Runchuan Zhu, Zhipeng Ma, Jiang Wu et al.

AAAI 2025
6
citations
#78

Composing Unbalanced Flows for Flexible Docking and Relaxation

Gabriele Corso, Vignesh Ram Somnath, Noah Getz et al.

ICLR 2025
6
citations
#79

HiFlow: Training-free High-Resolution Image Generation with Flow-Aligned Guidance

Jiazi Bu, Pengyang Ling, Yujie Zhou et al.

NeurIPS 2025
6
citations
#80

Neural Eulerian Scene Flow Fields

Kyle Vedder, Neehar Peri, Ishan Khatri et al.

ICLR 2025
6
citations
#81

FlowMo: Variance-Based Flow Guidance for Coherent Motion in Video Generation

Ariel Shaulov, Itay Hazan, Lior Wolf et al.

NeurIPS 2025
5
citations
#82

Flow-Guided Online Stereo Rectification for Wide Baseline Stereo

Anush Kumar, Fahim Mannan, Omid Hosseini Jafari et al.

CVPR 2024
5
citations
#83

When Diffusion Models Memorize: Inductive Biases in Probability Flow of Minimum-Norm Shallow Neural Nets

Chen Zeno, Hila Manor, Gregory Ongie et al.

ICML 2025
5
citations
#84

Importance Corrected Neural JKO Sampling

Johannes Hertrich, Robert Gruhlke

ICML 2025
5
citations
#85

Temporal Difference Flows

Jesse Farebrother, Matteo Pirotta, Andrea Tirinzoni et al.

ICML 2025
5
citations
#86

Topological Schrödinger Bridge Matching

Maosheng Yang

ICLR 2025
5
citations
#87

Fast and unified path gradient estimators for normalizing flows

Lorenz Vaitl, Ludwig Winkler, Lorenz Richter et al.

ICLR 2024
5
citations
#88

Normalizing Flows on the Product Space of SO(3) Manifolds for Probabilistic Human Pose Modeling

Olaf Dünkel, Tim Salzmann, Florian Pfaff

CVPR 2024
5
citations
#89

Towards Improving Exploration through Sibling Augmented GFlowNets

Kanika Madan, Alex Lamb, Emmanuel Bengio et al.

ICLR 2025
5
citations
#90

Faster Inference of Flow-Based Generative Models via Improved Data-Noise Coupling

Aram Davtyan, Leello Dadi, Volkan Cevher et al.

ICLR 2025
flow matchinggenerative modelsminibatch optimal transportimage generation+3
5
citations
#91

MOFFlow: Flow Matching for Structure Prediction of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Nayoung Kim, Seongsu Kim, Minsu Kim et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2410.17270
metal-organic frameworksstructure predictionflow matchingrigid body dynamics+3
5
citations
#92

Flow Matching-Based Autonomous Driving Planning with Advanced Interactive Behavior Modeling

Tianyi Tan, Yinan Zheng, Ruiming Liang et al.

NeurIPS 2025arXiv:2510.11083
autonomous driving planninginteractive behavior modelingflow matchingclassifier-free guidance+4
5
citations
#93

Not-So-Optimal Transport Flows for 3D Point Cloud Generation

Ka-Hei Hui, Chao Liu, xiaohui zeng et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2502.12456
3d point cloud generationoptimal transport flowspermutation invarianceequivariant generative models+3
5
citations
#94

FluxSpace: Disentangled Semantic Editing in Rectified Flow Models

Yusuf Dalva, Kavana Venkatesh, Pinar Yanardag

CVPR 2025
5
citations
#95

Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching

Floor Eijkelboom, Heiko Zimmermann, Sharvaree Vadgama et al.

ICML 2025
4
citations
#96

Discrete Cycle-Consistency Based Unsupervised Deep Graph Matching

Siddharth Tourani, Muhammad Haris Khan, Carsten Rother et al.

AAAI 2024
4
citations
#97

Curly Flow Matching for Learning Non-gradient Field Dynamics

Katarina Petrović, Lazar Atanackovic, Viggo Moro et al.

NeurIPS 2025
4
citations
#98

AMR-Transformer: Enabling Efficient Long-range Interaction for Complex Neural Fluid Simulation

Zeyi Xu, Jinfan Liu, Kuangxu Chen et al.

CVPR 2025arXiv:2503.10257
adaptive mesh refinementneural fluid simulationlong-range dependenciesnavier-stokes constraint+4
4
citations
#99

CryoFM: A Flow-based Foundation Model for Cryo-EM Densities

Yi Zhou, Yilai Li, Jing Yuan et al.

ICLR 2025
4
citations
#100

Floxels: Fast Unsupervised Voxel Based Scene Flow Estimation

David T. Hoffmann, Syed Haseeb Raza, Hanqiu Jiang et al.

CVPR 2025
4
citations