arXiv Machine Learning By Amirreza Dolatpour Fathkouhi, Justin Lee, Heman Shakeri

Interventional Flow Matching: Prospective Dose-Response Forecasting with Velocity-Field Jacobian Regularization

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arXiv:2606. 29386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting a patient's physiological trajectory under a planned treatment sequence is a prospective interventional problem, not standard time-series extrapolation.

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