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PermFlow framework learns unbiased permutations via flow matching

Researchers have introduced PermFlow, a novel framework for learning permutations that addresses limitations in existing methods. Unlike previous approaches that yield a single, softened solution and struggle with ambiguity, PermFlow utilizes conditional flow matching to operate directly on the affine subspace of matrices with unit row and column sums. This method ensures constraints are preserved exactly and can recover distinct valid permutations even when inputs are ambiguous, achieving high accuracy across various problems. AI

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PermFlow framework learns unbiased permutations via flow matching

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yimeng Min, Carla P. Gomes ·

    Learning Unbiased Permutations via Flow Matching

    arXiv:2605.16755v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning permutations is fundamental to sorting, ranking, and matching, but existing differentiable methods based on entropy-regularized Sinkhorn produce a single softened solution and collapse under ambiguity. We present PermFl…