arXiv:2608. 16506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dataset alignment is a central step in data analysis across science and engineering, where the goal is to match observations between datasets.
arXiv:2407. 01718v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embedding high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional space is an indispensable component of data analysis.
arXiv:2606. 04092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow matching models learn to transport samples from a simple prior distribution to a complex data distribution.
Existing optimal transport (OT) models primarily seek an OT map or plan between distributions by minimizing a prescribed transport cost or distortion. However, minimizing transport cost or distortion alone may fail to identify a geometrically meaningful transformation between the two distributions.
arXiv:2607. 16178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many applications of matching, the point clouds to be matched are not merely unstructured sets of points but rather samples from distributions with an intrinsic cluster structure.
arXiv:2608. 04234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the problem of aligning data from multiple modalities into a shared representation space, focusing on settings where strong pretrained unimodal encoders are available but cross-modal paired data are scarce.
arXiv:2606. 14023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimal Transport has become recently a powerful method for domain adaptation by aligning source and target distributions.
arXiv:2608. 19783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing optimal transport (OT) models primarily seek an OT map or plan between distributions by minimizing a prescribed transport cost or distortion.
The paper introduces a new method for perturbing data distributions in a way that respects equality constraints, allowing generative models to better handle constrained data. By adjusting the distribution while preserving the manifold geometry, the approach ensures support matches the ambient space dimension. Experiments with diffusion models and normalizing flows demonstrate improved data recovery and stable sampling across several tasks.
The paper introduces Contrastive Noise Alignment (CNA), a training-time method for generative flow models that dynamically aligns Gaussian noise with data samples using a cross-modal InfoNCE objective. By modeling noise as an interacting particle system and regularizing with angular entropy and radial norm penalties, CNA reduces arbitrary data-noise couplings and flow curvature. Empirical results show that CNA improves generation quality, lowering FID by over 50% for few-step pixel-space generation compared to standard rectified flow and outperforming optimal transport baselines by at least 24%.
arXiv:2602.19600v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many high-dimensional datasets concentrate near a low-dimensional structure embedded in the ambient space. Generative models for such data must con...
The paper introduces a pullback Riemannian geometry tailored for multimodal data by employing a latent Gaussian mixture model. It defines a smooth, positive‑definite metric based on responsibility‑weighted component precision, extending the standard single‑Gaussian construction. Experiments on synthetic, multi‑view image, and MNIST datasets demonstrate reduced transport distortion, accurate trajectory recovery, and more realistic interpolation.
arXiv:2605. 00337v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sampling the distribution of collective variables (CVs) and estimating the associated free energy surface are crucial problems in statistical physics, as they underpin a better understanding of chemical reactions and conformational transitions.