arXiv AI By Yihan He, Qishuo Yin, Yuan Cao, Jianqing Fan, Han Liu

A Theory on Flow Matching with Neural Networks

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arXiv:2606. 10089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we develop theoretical foundation for flow matching with neural-network-parameterized conditional velocity fields.

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