Learning the Structure of Triangular Transport Maps
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The paper introduces multifidelity techniques for building triangular transport maps when high‑fidelity data are limited but low‑fidelity data are plentiful. Two strategies are proposed: a hierarchical approach that composes maps across fidelity levels, and a non‑hierarchical method that uses monotonicity‑preserving corrections to incorporate low‑fidelity information. Numerical tests show these methods outperform single‑fidelity transport and, when applied to amortized simulation‑based inference, improve conditional sampling and uncertainty quantification in data‑scarce regimes.
arXiv:2606. 30574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.
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.
The paper introduces Distribution‑Conditioned Transport (DCT), a framework that learns transport maps conditioned on embeddings of source and target distributions, allowing generalization to unseen distribution pairs. DCT supports semi‑supervised learning for distributional forecasting by leveraging distributions observed at only one condition. It is agnostic to the transport mechanism and is demonstrated on synthetic benchmarks and four biological applications, including batch effect transfer in single‑cell genomics and modeling T‑cell receptor sequence evolution.
arXiv:2606. 05327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching (FM) has emerged as a powerful framework for learning dynamic transport maps between two empirical distributions.
arXiv:2602.19600v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many high-dimensional datasets concentrate near a low-dimensional structure embedded in the ambient space. Generative models for such data must con...