2026
Purrception: Variational Flow Matching for Vector-Quantized Image Generation
Răzvan-Andrei Matișan, Vincent Tao Hu, Grigory Bartosh, Björn Ommer, Cees G. M. Snoek, Max Welling +3
ICLR 2026poster
We introduce Purrception, a variational flow matching approach for vector-quantized image generation that provides explicit categorical supervision while maintaining continuous transport dynamics. Our method adapts Variational Flow Matching to vector-quantized latents by learning categorical posteri…