Ji-Shen Peng

Classifier-Free Guidance in Flow Matching: Non-Autonomous Potentials, Overshoot, and Posterior-Mean Control

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) improves conditional generation in Flow Matching, but strong guidance can distort the generated distribution and reduce diversity. We provide a geometric account of this behavior by viewing Flow Matching as a time-varying gradient flow and characterizing how CFG reshapes its underlying po...