We introduce Potential Matching Optimal Transport (PMOT), a potential-flow framework for general $p$-cost optimal transport with $c_p(x,y)=\|x-y\|^p$. PMOT parameterizes the CNF velocity field with a scalar potential in the generalized Benamou--Brenier form for the chosen exponent $p$.
The paper introduces COFM, a framework for consistent optimal transport flow matching that uses partially input convex neural networks (PICNN) to parameterize the transport potential. By adding a Hamilton‑Jacobi residual to the training objective, COFM enforces dynamical consistency and supports both one‑step transport and multi‑step ODE sampling without costly inner optimization. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that COFM achieves competitive performance while reducing L^2‑UVP by over 2× and cutting computational time by about 9× compared to state‑of‑the‑art models.
By Fanghui Song, Zhongjian Wang, Jiebao Sun
arXiv:2602. 22265v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern vision generators transport a base distribution to data through time-indexed measures, implemented as deterministic flows (ODEs) or stochastic diffusions (SDEs).
By Chika Maduabuchi
Generative models for function-valued data, such as time series and solutions of partial differential equations, must learn distributions over infinite-dimensional spaces. Functional Flow Matching (FF...
arXiv:2609.38049v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative models for function-valued data, such as time series and solutions of partial differential equations, must learn distributions over infinite...
By Fred Xu, Thomas Markovich, Barbora Barancikova, Yizhou Sun
arXiv:2608. 01692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose an instantiation of flow matching that relies on a time-independent velocity field (an \emph{autonomous flow}) to exactly map between two distributions, so long as the target is singular, i.
By Lee Cheuk-Kit, Florentin Coeurdoux, Peter Potaptchik, Yilun Du, Michael Samuel Albergo, Eric Vanden-Eijnden
arXiv:2607. 16987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past few years, diffusion-based Schr\"odinger bridge models have been proposed to approximate optimal transport dynamics between two prescribed boundary distributions, with successful applications to generative modeling.
By Maxence Noble, Marie Scheid, Yazid Janati, Eric Moulines, Alain Durmus
arXiv:2606. 24157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d$) of probability measures with finite second moment carries a natural geometry: the quadratic Wasserstein distance W_2 makes it a complete metric space and, following Otto, a (formal) Riemannian manifold whose geodesics are the optimal-transport interpolations.
By Yian Yao, Weiwei Zhang
arXiv:2610.00785v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Flow matching (FM) learns generative transport by fitting continuous-time motion from a simple source distribution to the data distribution. Most exist...
By Haoyang Jiang, Yuheng Li, Di Yang, Yanhai Xiong, Haipeng Chen, Yi He
arXiv:2505. 06589v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern machine learning repeatedly manipulates probability measures: empirical datasets, generated samples, latent distributions, class-conditional laws, particle systems, weights of wide networks and attention patterns.
By Gabriel Peyr\'e
The paper introduces TP‑DATE, a dynamic framework that extends Gromov–Wasserstein optimal transport (GW‑OT) to reconstruct continuous trajectories without simulation. It formulates a broad class of static and dynamic Quadratic‑form OT (QOT) via path actions, proving static‑dynamic equivalence, and develops travelling‑pair flow matching to capture interacting conditional paths in a single vector field. Experiments on synthetic and real spatial transcriptomics data show that TP‑DATE better preserves spatial structure and improves 3D dynamics reconstruction.
By Junda Ying, Zhiwei Zeng, Peijie Zhou, Lei Zhang
arXiv:2609.13892v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study the recovery of forward and reverse quadratic optimal-transport maps from unpaired samples in high dimensions. We introduce a bidirectional...
By Shizhou Xu, Jiachen Liu, Shih-Hsin Wang, Stefan Broecker, Yuhao Huang, Bao Wang, Thomas Strohmer