The Averaging Tax — Why Class Conditioning Isn't a Feature

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Class conditioning isn't a control feature added to flow models — it's the mathematical fix for a contradiction the unconditional formulation can't solve. The same logic explains why the action in generative AI keeps moving up to the conditioning layer.

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