Shimon Malnick

I’m currently a PhD candidate of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, under the joint supervision of Prof. Shai Avidan and Prof. Ohad Fried. My research focuses on generative models for computer vision, in particular diffusion and flow-based models, with an emphasis on inversion for analysis, evaluation, and safety/privacy.

Previously, I worked as an Applied Science Intern at Amazon, developing and evaluating vision–language models for high-resolution image understanding.

News

Oct 17, 2026	Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR 2026
Oct 16, 2026	New preprint: “SoftCache: Adaptive Step Size Caching for Diffusion Transformers” is now on arXiv
Jun 4, 2026	New preprint: “Optimal Transport Flow Matching by Design” is now on arXiv

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

SoftCache: Adaptive Step Size Caching for Diffusion Transformers

Shimon Malnick, Nadav Orenstein, Ohad Fried, and Shai Avidan

arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.22369, 2026

arXiv Bib Paper Code Website

@article{malnick2026softcache,
  title = {SoftCache: Adaptive Step Size Caching for Diffusion Transformers},
  author = {Malnick, Shimon and Orenstein, Nadav and Fried, Ohad and Avidan, Shai},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.22369},
  year = {2026},
}

Optimal Transport Flow Matching by Design

Shimon Malnick, Matan Rusanovsky, Ohad Fried, and Shai Avidan

arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.04092, 2026

arXiv Bib Paper Code Website

@article{malnick2026optimal,
  title = {Optimal Transport Flow Matching by Design},
  author = {Malnick, Shimon and Rusanovsky, Matan and Fried, Ohad and Avidan, Shai},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.04092},
  year = {2026},
}

Talking Points: Describing and Localizing Pixels

Matan Rusanovsky, Shimon Malnick, and Shai Avidan

ICLR 2026

arXiv Bib Paper Code Website

@inproceedings{rusanovsky2026talking,
  title = {Talking Points: Describing and Localizing Pixels},
  author = {Rusanovsky, Matan and Malnick, Shimon and Avidan, Shai},
  booktitle = {The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  venue = {ICLR},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=FcGQVshxMP},
}

Memories of Forgotten Concepts

Matan Rusanovsky*, Shimon Malnick*, Amir Jevnisek*, Ohad Fried, and Shai Avidan

CVPR 2025

Highlight

arXiv Bib Paper PDF Code Website

@inproceedings{Rusanovsky_2025_CVPR,
  author = {Rusanovsky*, Matan and Malnick*, Shimon and Jevnisek*, Amir and Fried, Ohad and Avidan, Shai},
  title = {Memories of Forgotten Concepts},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)},
  venue = {CVPR},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {2966-2975},
  highlight = {Highlight}
}

Taming Normalizing Flows

Shimon Malnick, Shai Avidan, and Ohad Fried

WACV 2024

arXiv Bib Paper PDF Code Website

@inproceedings{Malnick_2024_WACV,
  author = {Malnick, Shimon and Avidan, Shai and Fried, Ohad},
  title = {Taming Normalizing Flows},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  venue = {WACV},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {4644-4654},
}