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20242026
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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Normalizing Trajectory Models

Jiatao Gu, Tianrong Chen, Ying Shen +3

Diffusion-based models decompose sampling into many small Gaussian denoising steps -- an assumption that breaks down when generation is compressed to a few coarse transitions. Exis…

cs.CV2026

STARFlow2: Bridging Language Models and Normalizing Flows for Unified Multimodal Generation

Ying Shen, Tianrong Chen, Yuan Gao +6

Deep generative models have advanced rapidly across text and vision, motivating unified multimodal systems that can understand, reason over, and generate interleaved text-image seq…

cs.CV2026

Normalizing Flows with Iterative Denoising

Tianrong Chen, Jiatao Gu, David Berthelot +2

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a classical family of likelihood-based methods that have received revived attention. Recent efforts such as TARFlow have shown that NFs are capable of a…

cs.LG2026

Exclusive Self Attention

Shuangfei Zhai

We introduce exclusive self attention (XSA), a simple modification of self attention (SA) that improves Transformer's sequence modeling performance. The key idea is to constrain at…

cs.LG2026

The Coupling Within: Flow Matching via Distilled Normalizing Flows

David Berthelot, Tianrong Chen, Jiatao Gu +6

Flow models have rapidly become the go-to method for training and deploying large-scale generators, owing their success to inference-time flexibility via adjustable integration ste…

cs.CV2025

How PARTs assemble into wholes: Learning the relative composition of images

Melika Ayoughi, Samira Abnar, Chen Huang +10

The composition of objects and their parts, along with object-object positional relationships, provides a rich source of information for representation learning. Hence, spatial-awa…