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Autori principali: Billera, Lukas, Nordlinder, Hedwig Nora, Murrell, Ben
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16599
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author Billera, Lukas
Nordlinder, Hedwig Nora
Murrell, Ben
author_facet Billera, Lukas
Nordlinder, Hedwig Nora
Murrell, Ben
contents This brief note clarifies that, in Generator Matching (which subsumes a large family of flow matching and diffusion models over continuous, manifold, and discrete spaces), both the Bregman divergence loss and the linear parameterization of the generator can depend on both the current state $X_t$ and the time $t$, and we show that the expectation over time in the loss can be taken with respect to a broad class of time distributions. We also show this for Edit Flows, which falls outside of Generator Matching. That the loss can depend on $t$ clarifies that time-dependent loss weighting schemes, often used in practice to stabilize training, are theoretically justified when the specific flow or diffusion scheme is a special case of Generator Matching (or Edit Flows). It also often simplifies the construction of $X_1$-predictor schemes, which are sometimes preferred for model-related reasons. We show examples that rely upon the dependence of linear parameterizations, and of the Bregman divergence loss, on $t$ and $X_t$.
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spellingShingle Time dependent loss reweighting for flow matching and diffusion models is theoretically justified
Billera, Lukas
Nordlinder, Hedwig Nora
Murrell, Ben
Machine Learning
This brief note clarifies that, in Generator Matching (which subsumes a large family of flow matching and diffusion models over continuous, manifold, and discrete spaces), both the Bregman divergence loss and the linear parameterization of the generator can depend on both the current state $X_t$ and the time $t$, and we show that the expectation over time in the loss can be taken with respect to a broad class of time distributions. We also show this for Edit Flows, which falls outside of Generator Matching. That the loss can depend on $t$ clarifies that time-dependent loss weighting schemes, often used in practice to stabilize training, are theoretically justified when the specific flow or diffusion scheme is a special case of Generator Matching (or Edit Flows). It also often simplifies the construction of $X_1$-predictor schemes, which are sometimes preferred for model-related reasons. We show examples that rely upon the dependence of linear parameterizations, and of the Bregman divergence loss, on $t$ and $X_t$.
title Time dependent loss reweighting for flow matching and diffusion models is theoretically justified
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16599