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Improving and generalizing flow-based generative models with minibatch optimal transport

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Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) are an attractive generative modeling technique, but they have been held back by limitations in their simulation-based maximum likelihood training. We introduce the generalized conditional flow matching (CFM) technique, a family of simulation-free training objectives for CNFs. CFM features a stable regression objective like that used to train the stochastic flow in diffusion models but enjoys the efficient inference of deterministic flow models. In contrast to both diffusion models and prior CNF training algorithms, CFM does not require the source distribution to be Gaussian or require evaluation of its density. A variant of our objective is optimal transport CFM (OT-CFM), which creates simpler flows that are more stable to train and lead to faster inference, as evaluated in our experiments. Furthermore, we show that when the true OT plan is available, our OT-CFM method approximates dynamic OT. Training CNFs with CFM improves results on a variety of conditional and unconditional generation tasks, such as inferring single cell dynamics, unsupervised image translation, and Schr\"odinger bridge inference.

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cs.LG · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

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cs.CV · 2026-05-14 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

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Aligning Flow Map Policies with Optimal Q-Guidance

cs.LG · 2026-05-12 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

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math.OC · 2026-05-12 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

A generative transfer framework using iterative path-wise tilting integrated with conditional flow matching recovers target entropic optimal transport couplings from reference samples, achieving O(δ) convergence in Wasserstein-1 distance.

Is Flow Matching Just Trajectory Replay for Sequential Data?

stat.ML · 2026-02-09 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Flow matching on time series targets a closed-form nonparametric velocity field that is a similarity-weighted mixture of observed transition velocities, making neural models approximations to an ideal memory-augmented dynamical system sampler.

On The Hidden Biases of Flow Matching Samplers

stat.ML · 2025-12-18 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Empirical flow matching introduces coupled biases from plug-in estimation, including altered statistical targets, non-gradient minimizers, and non-unique dynamics via flux-null fields, with base distribution controlling kinetic energy tails.

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  • Is Flow Matching Just Trajectory Replay for Sequential Data? stat.ML · 2026-02-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 99 · internal anchor

    Flow matching on time series targets a closed-form nonparametric velocity field that is a similarity-weighted mixture of observed transition velocities, making neural models approximations to an ideal memory-augmented dynamical system sampler.

  • On The Hidden Biases of Flow Matching Samplers stat.ML · 2025-12-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 41 · internal anchor

    Empirical flow matching introduces coupled biases from plug-in estimation, including altered statistical targets, non-gradient minimizers, and non-unique dynamics via flux-null fields, with base distribution controlling kinetic energy tails.

  • SURGE: Approximation and Training Free Particle Filter for Diffusion Surrogate stat.ML · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 24 · 2 links · internal anchor

    SURGE is an unbiased particle filter that fuses diffusion-model simulations with noisy observations via sequential Monte Carlo reweighting over diffusion trajectories.

  • Debiased Counterfactual Generation via Flow Matching from Observations stat.ML · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 26 · internal anchor

    Observational and counterfactual distributions are linked by identical support and invariant features, enabling a flow-matching estimator with semiparametric efficiency correction to generate debiased counterfactuals from observations.

  • Flow Matching is Adaptive to Manifold Structures stat.ML · 2026-02-25 · unverdicted · none · ref 5 · internal anchor

    Flow matching achieves near-minimax optimal statistical consistency for manifold-supported distributions, with convergence rates governed by intrinsic dimension and smoothness rather than ambient dimension.