FlowBind: Efficient Any-to-Any Generation with Bidirectional Flows

Yeonwoo Cha, Semin Kim, Jinhyeon Kwon, Seunghoon Hong

Keywords: Generative models, Flow matching, any-to-any generation

TL;DR: We propose an efficient flow-based multimodal any-to-any generation model with bidirectional flows.

Abstract:

Any-to-any generation seeks to translate between arbitrary subsets of modalities, enabling flexible cross-modal synthesis.
Despite recent success, existing flow-based approaches are challenged by their inefficiency, as they require large-scale datasets often with restrictive pairing constraints, incur high computational cost from modeling joint distribution, and rely on complex multi-stage training.
We propose FlowBind, an efficient framework for any-to-any generation.
Our approach is distinguished by its simplicity: it learns a shared latent space capturing cross-modal information, with modality-specific invertible flows bridging this latent to each modality.
Both components are optimized jointly under a single flow-matching objective, and at inference the invertible flows act as encoders and decoders for direct translation across modalities.
By factorizing interactions through the shared latent, FlowBind naturally leverages arbitrary subsets of modalities for training, and achieves competitive generation quality while substantially reducing data requirements and computational cost.
Experiments on text, image, and audio demonstrate that FlowBind attains comparable quality while requiring up to 6× fewer parameters and training 10× faster than prior methods. The project page with code is available at https://yeonwoo378.github.io/official_flowbind.

Primary Area: generative models

Submission Number: 4412