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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 10, 2026
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This preprint proposes a model-aware schedule construction for diffusion and flow-matching generative models based on fiberwise optimal transport, demonstrating empirical improvements in image generation quality (38.6% FID reduction on CIFAR-10) compared to model-agnostic kinetic baselines. The method shows consistent gains across multiple datasets and architectures, with evidence of normalized-risk alignment suggesting potential universality; however, the work remains unpublished, lacks prospective validation, and relies on surrogate endpoints without clinical or downstream-task evaluation.
Computational methods development with empirical retrospective comparison across multiple datasets and model configurations. Computational models (DDPMs, flow-matching networks); evaluation on image generation tasks (CIFAR-10, conditional latent diffusion, and 2-RF models). No human subjects.. Intervention: Model-aware schedule construction based on fiberwise optimal transport, with closed-form optimal time allocation derived from prediction risk and kinetic action. Compared with: Model-agnostic kinetic baselines (diffusion and flow-matching schedules without fiberwise prediction risk).
Model-aware fiberwise-optimal-transport schedules achieve 38.6% relative FID reduction for flow matching on CIFAR-10 at 16 function evaluations compared to kinetic baselines Normalized fiberwise-risk profiles from independently trained models align closely after normalization to unit area, suggesting empirical universality across settings Frozen analytic allocation template retains most model-aware improvement without per-model risk estimation or fitting
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This work is not yet clinically applicable; it is a computational methods paper in generative AI. Potential future relevance depends on adoption in applications requiring high-fidelity image synthesis, pending peer review and independent validation.
A single-center computational study introducing a novel method with empirical validation across multiple datasets and architectures, but lacking peer review, clinical translation, or comparison to published gold-standard baselines in a prospective trial framework.
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This work is not yet clinically applicable; it is a computational methods paper in generative AI. Potential future relevance depends on adoption in applications requiring high-fidelity image synthesis, pending peer review and independent validation.
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Diffusion and flow-matching schedules control the signal and noise coefficients that mix data and noise along affine probability paths. Minimizing a kinetic action defined on coefficient paths, motivated by optimal transport, helps explain strong baselines but remains model-agnostic and ignores prediction error. Here we introduce a model-aware schedule construction based on fiberwise optimal transport. At a fixed time and state on the probability path, compatible signal/noise decompositions form an affine fiber. We define a fiberwise prediction risk by averaging optimal-transport costs between the true and predictor-induced decompositions within these fibers. On a fixed coefficient curve, combining this risk with coefficient-path kinetic action yields a closed-form optimal time allocation. This construction extends to general linear prediction targets, and the risk profile can be estimated from an early baseline checkpoint. We evaluate DDPMs and flow matching across prediction targets, training configurations, risk-estimation checkpoints, datasets, and architectures. Our model-aware schedules consistently outperform strong baselines, including a 38.6% relative FID reduction for flow matching on CIFAR-10 at 16 function evaluations. Each model-agnostic kinetic baseline determines its own kinetic reference coordinate. In these coordinates, fiberwise-risk profiles from independently trained models in different settings align closely after normalization to unit area. The resulting schedule deformations used in training also align, suggesting empirical universality across the evaluated models and settings. Pretrained-checkpoint diagnostics extend this normalized-risk agreement to larger conditional latent diffusion and 2-RF models. A frozen analytic allocation template retains most of the model-aware improvement without further risk estimation or model-specific fitting.
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