Larger optimal transport batches make flow matching more stable

A scalable entropic transport approximation expands online source-target coupling from hundreds to thousands of samples while retaining theoretical and empirical stability benefits.

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Peter Chen · Sergey Levine

University of California, Berkeley

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Chen and Levine study how flow-matching models pair source noise with target data, a choice that determines the velocity targets used for training.

In flow matching, independently pairing noise and data can assign conflicting velocity targets to nearby intermediate states.

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Larger online entropic OT minibatches reduce gradient variance and integration error in flow matching.

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