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New flow matching objective improves generative models on manifolds

Researchers have developed a new flow matching objective for training generative models on manifolds, addressing issues where existing methods fail on compact spaces like the 1D flat torus. Their proposed method, built from an exponential family over endpoints, is compatible and ensures velocities remain feasible on compact manifolds. Empirically, this approach demonstrates improved negative log-likelihoods on geospatial benchmarks and outperforms prior work on human pose datasets. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more accurate and efficient generative models for complex data distributions found in fields like geospatial analysis and human pose estimation.

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Lucas Ng, Georgios Batzolis, Mark Girolami ·

    Compatible Likelihoods for Flow Matching on Manifolds

    arXiv:2610.31981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On the simplest non-Euclidean manifold, the 1D flat torus, we exhibit a distribution where a recently proposed extension of Riemannian flow matching is globally optimized by a velocity field that pushes samples away from the data …