SketchFlow: Zero-Shot Vector Sketch Generation via GMM Prior Flow in CLIP Latent Space

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Vector sketches remain one of the most concise and immediate mediums for abstract human expression. However, generating high-quality vector strokes that exhibit human-like drawing styles remains an open challenge due to the severe scarcity of fine-grained, high-quality text-to-sketch paired data. Existing text-conditioned generation methods often rely on unstable, time-consuming optimization or struggle to generalize to unseen categories in a zero-shot manner. To address these limitations, we present SketchFlow, a novel generative framework rooted in Optimal Transport (OT) theory and flow matching. By leveraging pre-trained CLIP models to bypass labor-intensive image-level text annotations, we formulate cross-modal alignment as a continuous mapping problem directly within the CLIP latent space. To bridge the inevitable modality gap between discrete text concepts and continuous sketch features, we first inject noise into discrete category embeddings to construct a continuous Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) prior. We then utilize an Optimal Transport Conditional Flow Matching (OT-CFM) model to learn a deterministic vector field mapping from this continuous GMM prior to the target sketch feature distribution. Finally, a Hybrid Diffusion Decoder, fusing 1D U-Net and Transformer architectures, is designed to decode these features into fast and high-fidelity stroke trajectories. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SketchFlow substantially outperforms existing baselines in visual quality and adherence to natural human drawing styles. Furthermore, our geometry-preserving framework demonstrates promising local zero-shot synthesis for prompts beyond the QuickDraw training vocabulary, including unseen concept labels and semantic modifiers, while enabling smooth, continuous semantic interpolation between distinct concepts. Source code is available at: https://github.com/QiuHong-1202/SketchFlow.

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