Generative & Foundation Models
Floor Eijkelboom
I’m doing my PhD at the University of Amsterdam with Jan-Willem van de Meent and Max Welling, working on generative modeling. I’m interested in ideas that travel between physics and machine learning: using insights from physics to build and understand generative models, and in turn using those models to study the physical world.
During my PhD, I developed variational flow matching, which extends flow matching to discrete data such as text and molecules. That line of work has since found its way into flow-based foundation models, such as continuous text diffusion models. I also interned at CuspAI, working on joint models of text and materials.
Outside of work, I’m usually listening to R&B, trying new recipes and restaurants, catching a film, or obsessing over perfume.
