High-Resolution Dynamic Functional Connectivity Generation with Graph-Variate Flow Matching
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Abstract (arXiv)
High-resolution dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) can reveal rapidly evolving brain-network interactions, but short temporal windows yield noisy, often low-rank covariance estimates. Graph-Variate Dynamic (GVD) connectivity addresses this by modulating fast instantaneous interactions with stable trial-level support. This suppresses spurious fluctuations and emphasizes persistent, informative connections. We show that the Hadamard construction lifts low-rank instantaneous connectivity from the positive-semidefinite to the positive-definite cone, keeping high-resolution trajectories on the SPD manifold without ridge regularisation or post-hoc projection. We introduce GVD-CFM, a class-conditional generative model for high-resolution dynamic connectivity. Each trial is represented as SPD GVD matrices on a product Riemannian manifold, then mapped through a global log-Euclidean diffeomorphism and an invertible temporal DCT basis. A Transformer-based conditional flow models all spectral modes jointly and generates the full trajectory non-autoregressively in Euclidean coordinates while preserving exact correspondence with valid SPD sequences. Retaining the full DCT basis also enables decoding on denser temporal grids without retraining. Across multiple EEG motor-imagery datasets, GVD-CFM delivers the strongest overall results for held-out distributional fidelity, temporal-dynamics preservation, and synthetic-to-real classification. It also remains computationally efficient relative to strong raw-signal and direct GVD-space generative baselines. GVD-CFM therefore provides a practical framework for realistic, temporally coherent, high-resolution brain-network generation with preserved manifold structure and resolution-flexible decoding from a single trained model.
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