Drift Variation Autoencoder: Unifying Generation and Representation Learning through Conditional Posterior Flow Matching

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arXiv:2608.25138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic masking, cropping, or modality removal makes deterministic reconstruction an incomplete target: one observation can admit many clean completions. This work takes the corresponding posterior $P(X\mid C)$ as the common statistical object for conditional generation and generatively sufficient representation learning. Drift Variation autoencoder trains a masked encoder $Z=E(C)$ and a conditional flow decoder with one clean-prediction Flow Matching loss. The analysis first decomposes the ideal conditional KL into generator approximation and the representation deficiency $I(X;C\mid Z)$. It then derives orthogonal risk decompositions for conditional Flow Matching. For an affine Gaussian path, the clean-prediction representation gap is zero if and only if $P(X\mid Z)=P(X\mid C)$. Thus the encoder-dependent excess clean-prediction risk induced by Flow Matching and the profiled ideal conditional KL have the same posterior-sufficient zero set, without being numerically equal objectives. An exact conditional field with a zero-noise endpoint then generates $P(X\mid Z)$ and hence $P(X\mid C)$ at a joint ideal optimum. The result extends to continuous multimodal product spaces when the complete modality tuple remains the Flow target for every observation mask. On CrossGeom-4, an 18-run controlled benchmark, observable factors have linear-probe $R^2$ of $0.9990$-$0.9992$, shuffling the joint model's encoder condition increases conditional error by $13.5\times$-$15.7\times$, and joint target attention reduces disagreement on an …

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