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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 potential. This view explains how stronger alignment can be accompanied by mean displacement and trajectory concentration, and motivates controlling guidance through the model-implied terminal posterior mean. We therefore propose Posterior-Mean-Capped CFG (PMC-CFG), a training-free
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- arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-09-21T08:46:59.000Z
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