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Physics-Informed Design of Input Convex Neural Networks for Consistency Optimal Transport Flow Matching

Machine Learning 2025-11-11 v1

Abstract

We propose a consistency model based on the optimal-transport flow. A physics-informed design of partially input-convex neural networks (PICNN) plays a central role in constructing the flow field that emulates the displacement interpolation. During the training stage, we couple the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) residual in the OT formulation with the original flow matching loss function. Our approach avoids inner optimization subproblems that are present in previous one-step OFM approaches. During the prediction stage, our approach supports both one-step (Brenier-map) and multi-step ODE sampling from the same learned potential, leveraging the straightness of the OT flow. We validate scalability and performance on standard OT benchmarks.

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@article{arxiv.2511.06042,
  title  = {Physics-Informed Design of Input Convex Neural Networks for Consistency Optimal Transport Flow Matching},
  author = {Fanghui Song and Zhongjian Wang and Jiebao Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.06042},
  year   = {2025}
}