Flow matching avoids the curse of dimensionality by adapting to intrinsic data dimension

New theoretical bounds show that generalization error depends on the intrinsic rather than ambient dimension, providing a theoretical basis for empirical performance on high-dimensional structured data.

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Saptarshi Chakraborty · Quentin Berthet · Peter L. Bartlett

University of Michigan · Google DeepMind · University of California, Berkeley

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Chakraborty et al.

The authors studied flow matching, a generative framework that learns a velocity field to transform a simple distribution into the data distribution via an ordinary differential equation.

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Flow matching achieves finite-sample Wasserstein generalization rates governed by data’s intrinsic Wasserstein dimension rather than its ambient dimension.

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