MeshFlow: Mesh Generation with Equivariant Flow Matching
On the map: Diffusion models → 3D, point cloud and scene generation
Abstract (arXiv)
Meshes are among the most common 3D scene representations, but directly generating meshes is challenging because the representation contains important symmetries, including permutation invariance of faces and vertices. MeshFlow learns to generate triangle meshes directly as triangle soups, avoiding the need to serialize meshes into long autoregressive sequences. We adopt equivariant optimal-transport flow matching models that respect the key symmetries of triangle soups: arbitrary permutations of faces and permutations of the vertices within each face. Toward this goal, we propose a simple yet effective modification to the Diffusion Transformer architecture, resulting in a scalable network capable of modeling a velocity field while maintaining the desired equivariance. We further introduce an optimal-transport-based training objective that improves convergence by eliminating supervision signals that violate these symmetries. MeshFlow achieves mesh quality comparable to state-of-the-art autoregressive mesh generators while providing about an 18× speedup during inference. Project page is at https://qiisun.github.io/MeshFlow/.
Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 67 of its 97 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 22 Jun 2026.
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