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Teodora Reu

3 accepted papers

2025

Gradient Variance Reveals Failure Modes in Flow-Based Generative Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Rectified Flows learn ODE vector fields whose trajectories are straight between source and target distributions, enabling near one-step inference. We show that this straight-path objective reveals fundamental failure modes: under deterministic training, low gradient variance drives memorization of a…

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2024

Metric Flow Matching for Smooth Interpolations on the Data Manifold

NeurIPS 2024poster

Matching objectives underpin the success of modern generative models and rely on constructing conditional paths that transform a source distribution into a target distribution. Despite being a fundamental building block, conditional paths have been designed principally under the assumption of $\text…

2024

To smooth a cloud or to pin it down: Expressiveness guarantees and insights on score matching in denoising diffusion models

UAI 2024poster

Denoising diffusion models are a class of generative models that have recently achieved state-of-the-art results across many domains. Gradual noise is added to the data using a diffusion process, which transforms the data distribution into a Gaussian. Samples from the generative model are then obtai…

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