AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 7h ago6/10
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A Kinetic Energy Perspective of Flow Matching
Researchers introduce Kinetic Path Energy (KPE), a physics-inspired metric for evaluating flow-based generative models that measures the dynamical effort of sampling trajectories. The analysis reveals a non-monotonic relationship between trajectory energy and generation quality, where excessive energy causes memorization rather than genuine generation, leading to a training-free inference method called Kinetic Trajectory Shaping that improves output fidelity.