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Beyond Transport Cost: Routing Differences between Flow Matching and Optimal Transport

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The paper investigates how routing—where each noise sample is directed—differs between Flow Matching (FM) and Optimal Transport (OT) even when their transport costs are nearly identical. By separating cost from routing, the authors demonstrate numerically that FM and OT can produce similar costs yet diverge in routing decisions. They further show that incorporating routing information into training improves generation quality compared to a cost-only approach.

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arXiv Machine Learning
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COFM: Consistent Optimal Transport Flow Matching via Partially Input Convex Neural Networks

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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The Fundamental Limits of Valid Transport Map Estimation

Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distributions without explicitly targeting an optimal transport (OT) map. In applications like generative modeling, the transport cost itself is irrelevant, and this makes it natural to target maps which are more tractable from either a statistical or computational standpoint.