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Flow matching learns a vector field representing the change in density rather than learning the density directly.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026

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“Uh what you end up doing, we use the fact that effectively the velocity field and the the density change is coupled together by saying instead of learning the density, we learn the change in density, so this vector field. And this is the parameterisation.”

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