# Flow matching, time series and science Area: [Diffusion models](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/flow-matching-time-series-and-science/ ## Key facts - Flow matching, time series and science: 1,679 papers on arXiv since 2020 (data through 14 Oct 2026). - 626 of its 1,679 mapped papers (37%) cite “Flow Matching for Generative Modeling” (2022, arXiv 2210.02747). - 495 of its 1,679 mapped papers (29%) cite “Flow Straight and Fast: Learning to Generate and Transfer Data with Rectified Flow” (2022, arXiv 2209.03003). - 139 new papers 17 Sep–14 Oct. ## Most cited here - [Flow Matching for Generative Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02747/) (2022), cited by 626 papers here - [Flow Straight and Fast: Learning to Generate and Transfer Data with Rectified Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.03003/) (2022), cited by 495 papers here - [Improving and generalizing flow-based generative models with minibatch optimal transport](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.00482/) (2023), cited by 259 papers here - [Equivariant Diffusion for Molecule Generation in 3D](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.17003/) (2022), cited by 199 papers here - [DiGress: Discrete Denoising diffusion for graph generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14734/) (2022), cited by 155 papers here - [GeoDiff: a Geometric Diffusion Model for Molecular Conformation Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02923/) (2022), cited by 136 papers here - [CSDI: Conditional Score-based Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Time Series Imputation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.03502/) (2021), cited by 135 papers here - [Multisample Flow Matching: Straightening Flows with Minibatch Couplings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.14772/) (2023), cited by 117 papers here - [Score-based Generative Modeling of Graphs via the System of Stochastic Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.02514/) (2022), cited by 100 papers here - [Flow Matching on General Geometries](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03660/) (2023), cited by 93 papers here ## New (17 Sep–14 Oct) - [Value-Informed Schedule Trimming for Accelerated Sequential Monte Carlo Guidance in Discrete Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.20669/) (2026-10-14) - [ReAl: Refine neural operators via aligning dynamical flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.20369/) (2026-10-14) - [In-Context Batch Black-box Optimization via Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.20138/) (2026-10-14) - [Weighted Adjoint Matching: Finetuning Flow Matching Models with Time-Dependent Control Cost](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.20035/) (2026-10-14) - [Scaling Online Optimal Transport Minibatches for Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.18838/) (2026-10-13) - [Deterministic Prediction as Global Velocity: Flow Matching for Probabilistic Time-Series Forecast](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.18621/) (2026-10-13) - [Euclidean Distance-Based Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.18534/) (2026-10-13) - [Posterior-Averaged Bellman Flow Matching for Distributional Critics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.17788/) (2026-10-13) - [MissPath-FM: Flow Matching with Structured Priors for Partially Observed Time Series](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.17715/) (2026-10-13) - [MIRRA: Fast, High-Fidelity Molecular Generation with Chemistry-Informed Discrete Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.17244/) (2026-10-12) - [Radial Tail Repair: Post-Training Correction for Diffusion and Flow Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16851/) (2026-10-12) - [Calibrating Generative Flows through Regional Probability Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16780/) (2026-10-12) - [Guidance Without Labels: Flow Matching from Coupled Gaussian Mixtures](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16654/) (2026-10-12) - [Characterizing and Mitigating Distributional Bias in Physics-Informed Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16582/) (2026-10-12) - [Learning ω-Powered Conditional Distributions with Importance-Weighted Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16419/) (2026-10-12) - [Probabilistic Simulation of Gas-Liquid Interfaces with Coupled Flow Matching on Spherical Harmonics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.16327/) (2026-10-12) - [Probabilistic Forecasting of Wildfire Size Using Conditional Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.15983/) (2026-10-11) - [When do explicit penalties improve flow matching?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.15689/) (2026-10-11) - [OceanFlow: Coherent Flow Matching for Probabilistic Ocean Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.15518/) (2026-10-11) - [StimFlow: Synthesizing Brain Activity from Images via Stimulus-conditioned Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.15341/) (2026-10-11) - [MultiFlow: Vision-Driven Multimodal fMRI Encoding via Stimulus-Informed Source Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.15339/) (2026-10-11) - [FragFlex: Fragment-Based Flexible Molecular Generation for Exploring Vast Chemical Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.15284/) (2026-10-11) - [DiffGA: Steering Frozen Diffusion Models for Materials Design via Evolutionary Search](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.14999/) (2026-10-10) - [Pro-t-VAE: Closed-Form Student's t Mixtures for Robust Prototype Discovery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.14894/) (2026-10-10) - [Depth-progressive 3D seismic velocity model building via 2D generative diffusion models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.14812/) (2026-10-10) - [Spanning Diffusion and Flow-based Posterior Sampling via Exact Gaussian Conditioning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.13812/) (2026-10-09) - [Some remarks on the connection between generative diffusion and optimal transport](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.13614/) (2026-10-09) - [CorrFlow: Exact and Permutation-Equivariant Flow Matching on the Correlation Elliptope](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.13606/) (2026-10-09) - [Spatial Prediction with Guided Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.12967/) (2026-10-09) - [Primal-Dual Flow Matching for Sample-Wise Constrained Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.12699/) (2026-10-08)