Interaction Field Matching: Overcoming Limitations of Electrostatic Models

Abstract

Electrostatic field matching (EFM) has recently appeared as a novel physics-inspired paradigm for data generation and transfer using the idea of an electric capacitor. However, it requires modeling electrostatic fields using neural networks, which is non-trivial because of the necessity to take into account the complex field outside the capacitor plates. In this paper, we propose Interaction Field Matching (IFM), a generalization of EFM which allows using general interaction fields beyond the electrostatic one. Furthermore, inspired by strong interactions between quarks and antiquarks in physics, we design a particular interaction field realization which solves the problems which arise when modeling electrostatic fields in EFM. We show the performance on a series of toy and image data transfer problems.

Publication
A pre-print
Alexander Korotin
Alexander Korotin
Assistant professor,
senior research scientist

My research interests include generative modeling, unpaired learning, optimal transport and Schrodinger bridges.