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$α$-Flow: A Unified Framework for Continuous-State Discrete Flow Matching Models (2504.10283v1)

Published 14 Apr 2025 in cs.LG and stat.ML

Abstract: Recent efforts have extended the flow-matching framework to discrete generative modeling. One strand of models directly works with the continuous probabilities instead of discrete tokens, which we colloquially refer to as Continuous-State Discrete Flow Matching (CS-DFM). Existing CS-DFM models differ significantly in their representations and geometric assumptions. This work presents a unified framework for CS-DFM models, under which the existing variants can be understood as operating on different $\alpha$-representations of probabilities. Building upon the theory of information geometry, we introduce $\alpha$-Flow, a family of CS-DFM models that adheres to the canonical $\alpha$-geometry of the statistical manifold, and demonstrate its optimality in minimizing the generalized kinetic energy. Theoretically, we show that the flow matching loss for $\alpha$-flow establishes a unified variational bound for the discrete negative log-likelihood. We comprehensively evaluate different instantiations of $\alpha$-flow on various discrete generation domains to demonstrate their effectiveness in discrete generative modeling, including intermediate values whose geometries have never been explored before. $\alpha$-flow significantly outperforms its discrete-state counterpart in image and protein sequence generation and better captures the entropy in LLMing.

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