arXiv Machine Learning

Discretization and Statistical Consistency of Functional Flow Matching

arXiv:2608. 04531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional flow matching is posed on distributions of functions but implemented from finitely many coefficients or point values.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

Normalizing Flow Maps

The paper introduces Normalizing Flow Maps (NFM), a new class of exactly invertible pushforward maps that extend normalizing flows and flow maps by learning the integrator of an underlying dynamical system while enabling efficient exact likelihood evaluation. NFMs incorporate two consistency axes—pointwise matching for β1-based regression losses and distributional matching for aligning pushforward distributions with a forward process—allowing scalable training. Experiments on CIFAR-10, ImageNet-64, and Boltzmann Generators demonstrate that NFMs achieve state‑of‑the‑art sample quality among parameter‑matched normalizing flows and outperform prior normalizing flows on peptide benchmarks.

By Francesco M. Ruscio, Timothy James Hitge, Fred Zhangzhi Peng, Danyal Rehman, Zander W. Blasingame, Nicholas M. Boffi, Michael M. Bronstein, Alexander Tong, Avishek Joey Bose
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Fluids You Can Trust: Property-Preserving Operator Learning for Incompressible Flows

The paper introduces a kernel‑based operator learning method that preserves key physical properties—such as incompressibility, periodicity, and turbulence—of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. By mapping input functions to expansion coefficients in a property‑preserving kernel basis, the method guarantees that predicted velocity fields analytically maintain these properties. The authors provide theoretical convergence guarantees, develop efficient computational techniques for large‑scale training, and demonstrate significant accuracy and speed improvements over neural operators on 2D and 3D flow benchmarks.

By Ramansh Sharma, Matthew Lowery, Houman Owhadi, Varun Shankar
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Robustness and Structure Preservation in Flow-Based Generative Models via Wasserstein Path-Space Divergences

arXiv:2410. 01244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a novel Wasserstein-1 ($W_1$) path-space divergence for stochastic and deterministic dynamics and establish a Wasserstein Uncertainty Propagation (WUP) theorem that bounds the $W_1$ distance between terminal distributions by the proposed divergence, equivalently characterized by a weighted $L^2$ discrepancy between the underlying drifts and the $W_1$ distance between their initial measures.

By Ziyu Chen, Markos A. Katsoulakis, Benjamin J. Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

Barron Optimal Transport I: Generative Modeling

The paper introduces a new optimal transport framework that uses the Barron energy—an intrinsic neural network complexity measure—instead of the traditional kinetic energy. By modeling transport as deep residual networks that map a reference distribution to a target distribution, the authors define a new metric on probability measures and analyze its properties for generative modeling. They demonstrate that diffusion generative models are suboptimal in this Barron geometry and explore how adaptivity can improve alternative generative approaches.

By Evan Dogariu, Joan Bruna