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arXiv cs.LG
arXiv cs.LG
5/11/2026
On the Role of Strain and Vorticity in Numerical Integration Error for Flow Matching

On the Role of Strain and Vorticity in Numerical Integration Error for Flow Matching

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Researchers decompose velocity fields in flow matching into strain (controlling exponential error through logarithmic norms) and vorticity (linear error contribution). Weighted Jacobian regularization targeting both components achieves 2.7x lower integration error at NFE=5 on synthetic data and 14% FID improvement on CIFAR-10 at NFE=10. This analysis provides theoretical foundations for optimizing generative model inference efficiency.

  • •Strain controls exponential error amplification; vorticity contributes linearly to truncation error
  • •Weighted regularization achieves 2.7x improvement on synthetic data, 14% FID gain on CIFAR-10 at low NFE
  • •Enables efficient generative model inference by optimizing numerical integration error dynamics

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