Functional Mean Flow in Hilbert Space
Zhiqi Li, Yuchen Sun, Greg Turk, Bo Zhu
Abstract
We present Functional Mean Flow (FMF) as a one-step generative model defined in infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. FMF extends the one-step Mean Flow framework [13] to functional domains by providing a theoretical formulation for Functional Flow Matching and a practical implementation for efficient training and sampling. We also introduce an x 1 -prediction variant that improves stability over the original u-prediction form. The resulting framework is a practical one-step Flow Matching method applicable to a wide range of functional data generation tasks such as time series, images, PDEs, and 3D geometry.
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