提出生成路径自洽性理论,统一多类生成模型的内在一致性判断标准。
Self-Consistent Generative Paths via Admissible Random Variational Transport

- 定义自洽生成路径为可接受局部变分传输修正的随机不动点
- 推导出路径残差(R-FPR)并建立误差上界与训练正则化机制
- 适用于扩散、流匹配、VAE、GAN等主流生成模型,支持故障诊断与采样优化
现代生成模型通常定义从简单先验到数据分布的完整概率路径,而非仅终点映射。扩散模型遵循随机去噪路径,流匹配学习传输场,一致性和蒸馏方法将路径压缩为一步或几步,对抗模型匹配终态分布,而变分自编码器通过潜在核生成样本。现有统一视角主要描述路径如何构建。本文研究互补问题:何时生成路径是自洽的?定义自洽生成路径为可接受局部变分传输修正的随机不动点。局部修正由结合散度或几何项、能量项与结构约束的随机变分传输算子指定。该框架包含带正则化的最优传输近端步骤作为结构化实例,同时允许非OT散度、潜在核、对抗约束、因果离散核及终端单步映射。理论推导出随机不动点路径残差(R-FPR),用于衡量实际生成路径与可接受局部修正之间的差距。证明了适定性、随机不动点存在性与吸引性、非收缩存在性、残差到生成误差的界、经验残差集中性、代理扰动界、连续时间极限以及算子级泛化,附带模型特异性推论。该理论将终点匹配转化为路径自洽性检验,并提供残差控制原则,用于诊断失败、正则化训练与指导跨扩散、流、单步、VAE、GAN/WGAN和自回归生成器的自适应采样。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Modern generative models often define an entire probability path from a simple prior to the data law, rather than only an endpoint map. Diffusion models follow stochastic denoising paths, flow matching learns transport fields, consistency and distillation methods compress paths into one or a few steps, adversarial models match terminal distributions, and VAEs generate through latent kernels. Existing unifying views mainly describe how such paths are constructed. We study a complementary question: when is a generated probability path self-consistent? We define a self-consistent generative path as a random fixed point of admissible local variational transport corrections. In this framework, a local correction is specified by a random variational transport operator combining a divergence or geometry term, an energy term, and a structural constraint. The framework contains random regularized optimal-transport proximal steps as a structured instance, while also allowing non-OT divergences, latent kernels, adversarial constraints, causal discrete kernels, and terminal one-step maps. The theory yields a random fixed-point path residual (R-FPR), which measures the gap between the actual generated path and an admissible local correction. We prove well-posedness, random fixed-point existence and attraction, non-contractive existence, residual-to-generation error bounds, empirical residual concentration, proxy perturbation bounds, continuous-time limits, and operator-level generalization with model-specific corollaries. The resulting theory turns endpoint matching into path self-consistency testing and provides a residual-control principle for diagnosing failures, regularizing training, and guiding adaptive sampling across diffusion, flow, one-step, VAE, GAN/WGAN, and autoregressive generators.
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