Nicolas Salvy

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Generative modeling · 100%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Medical and health informatics · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
conditional generation
0.912025
Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Generative modeling
flow matching
0.912025
Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Generative modeling › flow matching
riemannian flow matching
0.912025
Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry · NeurIPS 2025
Medical and health informatics
neuroimaging
0.312025
Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

pullback metric · 1.7diffeomorphism · 1.7ODE solver · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Riemannian Flow Matching for Brain Connectivity Matrices via Pullback Geometry
abstract
Generating realistic brain connectivity matrices is key to analyzing population heterogeneity in brain organization, understanding disease, and augmenting data in challenging classification problems. Functional connectivity matrices lie in constrained spaces—such as the set of symmetric positive definite or correlation matrices—that can be modeled as Riemannian manifolds. However, using Riemannian tools typically requires redefining core operations (geodesics, norms, integration), making generative modeling computationally inefficient. In this work, we propose DiffeoCFM, an approach that enables conditional flow matching (CFM) on matrix manifolds by exploiting pullback metrics induced by global diffeomorphisms on Euclidean spaces. We show that Riemannian CFM with such metrics is equivalent to applying standard CFM after data transformation. This equivalence allows efficient vector field learning, and fast sampling with standard ODE solvers. We instantiate DiffeoCFM with two different settings: the matrix logarithm for covariance matrices and the normalized Cholesky decomposition for correlation matrices. We evaluate DiffeoCFM on three large-scale fMRI datasets with more than $4600$ scans from $2800$ subjects (ADNI, ABIDE, OASIS‑3) and two EEG motor imagery datasets with over $30000$ trials from $26$ subjects (BNCI2014‑002 and BNCI2015‑001). It enables fast training and achieves state-of-the-art performance, all while preserving manifold constraints. Code: https://github.com/antoinecollas/DiffeoCFM
Antoine Collas, Ce Ju, Nicolas Salvy, Bertrand Thirion
NeurIPS3