提出路径无关的流匹配方法,实现多参数分布间稳定变换
Path-independent Flow Matching for Multi-parameter Generative Dynamics

- 设计新向量场学习机制,确保变换路径无关
- 可逼近沃瑟斯坦中位数,支持分布插值
- 无需模拟即可训练,适合生成分布外样本
流匹配是一种强大的概率分布间传输映射学习框架。然而,其标准单参数形式无法捕捉多参数变化中要求路径无关的传输行为。路径无关性至关重要,它确保变换仅依赖于初始与目标分布,而不受路径影响。本文提出路径无关流匹配(PiFM),一种学习诱导路径无关传输的向量场的方法。我们证明PiFM将流匹配推广至高维参数域,并施加结构约束以保证复合变换的一致性。此外,在适当假设下,PiFM近似沃瑟斯坦中位数,将该框架与分布插值概念关联。为实现高效训练,我们提出一种无需模拟的可计算目标,直接回归多参数条件概率路径。实验表明,无论在合成数据还是真实数据上,PiFM在路径无关轨迹插值和生成分布外样本方面均优于现有方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Flow Matching is a powerful framework for learning transport maps between probability distributions. Yet its standard single-parameter formulation is not designed to capture multi-parameter variations where the resulting transport should be path-independent. Path independence is crucial because it ensures that transformations depend only on the initial and target distributions, not on the specific path. In this work, we introduce Path-independent Flow Matching (PiFM), a method for learning vector fields whose induced flows yield path-independent transport between distributions. We show that PiFM generalizes Flow Matching to higher-dimensional parameter domains while enforcing structural conditions that ensure consistency of composed transformations. In addition, we show that, under suitable assumptions, PiFM approximates the Wasserstein barycenter, linking the framework to a notion of distributional interpolation. To enable practical training, we propose a tractable, simulation-free objective that regresses onto multi-parameter conditional probability paths. We showcase empirically that PiFM outperforms other approaches on both synthetic and real world data in interpolating path-independent trajectories and generating desired out of distribution samples.
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