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Schrodinger Bridges (SBs) are diffusion processes that steer, in finite time, a given initial distribution to another final one while minimizing a suitable cost functional. Although various methods for computing SBs have recently been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 George Rapakoulias , Ali Reza Pedram , Fengjiao Liu , Lingjiong Zhu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Stochastic flows of an advective-diffusive nature are ubiquitous in physical sciences. Of particular interest is the problem to reconcile observed marginal distributions with a given prior posed by E. Schrodinger in 1932/32 and known as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

Compared to the existing function-based models in deep generative modeling, the recently proposed diffusion models have achieved outstanding performance with a stochastic-process-based approach. But a long sampling time is required for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ki-Ung Song

We introduce a novel approximation to the same marginal Schr\"{o}dinger bridge using the Langevin diffusion. As $\varepsilon \downarrow 0$, it is known that the barycentric projection (also known as the entropic Brenier map) of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Medha Agarwal , Zaid Harchaoui , Garrett Mulcahy , Soumik Pal

The dynamic Schr\"odinger bridge problem provides an appealing setting for solving constrained time-series data generation tasks posed as optimal transport problems. It consists of learning non-linear diffusion processes using efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Ella Tamir , Martin Trapp , Arno Solin

Denoising diffusion models are a novel class of generative models that have recently become extremely popular in machine learning. In this paper, we describe how such ideas can also be used to sample from posterior distributions and, more…

Computation · Statistics 2023-08-29 Jeremy Heng , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet

The solution of the path structured multimarginal Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem (MSBP) is the most-likely measure-valued trajectory consistent with a sequence of observed probability measures or distributional snapshots. We leverage recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Georgiy A. Bondar , Robert Gifford , Linh Thi Xuan Phan , Abhishek Halder

We propose a novel neural algorithm for the fundamental problem of computing the entropic optimal transport (EOT) plan between continuous probability distributions which are accessible by samples. Our algorithm is based on the saddle point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Nikita Gushchin , Alexander Kolesov , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov , Evgeny Burnaev

Learning generative models in settings where the source and target distributions are only specified through unpaired samples is gaining in importance. Here, one frequently-used model are Schr\"odinger bridges (SB), which represent the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tobias Fuchs , Florian Kalinke , Nadja Klein

Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transport (OMT) provides a blueprint for geometries in the space of positive densities -- it quantifies the cost of transporting a mass distribution into another. In particular, it provides natural options for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

Homotopy approaches to Bayesian inference have found widespread use especially if the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the prior and the posterior distribution is large. Here we extend one of these homotopy approach to include an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Sebastian Reich

Schr\"odinger Bridges (SB) have recently gained the attention of the ML community as a promising extension of classic diffusion models which is also interconnected to the Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT). Recent solvers for SB exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Nikita Gushchin , Sergei Kholkin , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

We propose to learn a generative model via entropy interpolation with a Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge. The generative learning task can be formulated as interpolating between a reference distribution and a target distribution based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Gefei Wang , Yuling Jiao , Qian Xu , Yang Wang , Can Yang

The bridge problem is to find an SDE (or sometimes an ODE) that bridges two given distributions. The application areas of the bridge problem are enormous, among which the recent generative modeling (e.g., conditional or unconditional image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Minyoung Kim

Recent diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) in the field of pansharpening have been gradually gaining attention and have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. In this paper, we identify shortcomings in directly applying DPMs to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zihan Cao , Xiao Wu , Liang-Jian Deng

Score-based diffusion models are frequently employed as structural priors in inverse problems. However, their iterative denoising process, initiated from Gaussian noise, often results in slow inference speeds. The Image-to-Image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Yuang Wang , Pengfei Jin , Siyeop Yoon , Matthew Tivnan , Quanzheng Li , Li Zhang , Dufan Wu

This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive theoretical analysis of current diffusion models. We introduce a novel generative learning methodology utilizing the Schr{\"o}dinger bridge diffusion model in latent space as the framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-24 Yuling Jiao , Lican Kang , Huazhen Lin , Jin Liu , Heng Zuo

We study a martingale Schr\"odinger bridge problem: given two probability distributions, find their martingale coupling with minimal relative entropy. Our main result provides Schr\"odinger potentials for this coupling. Namely, under…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Marcel Nutz , Johannes Wiesel

The mean-field Schr\"odinger bridge (MFSB) problem concerns designing a minimum-effort controller that guides a diffusion process with nonlocal interaction to reach a given distribution from another by a fixed deadline. Unlike the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Asmaa Eldesoukey , Yongxin Chen , Abhishek Halder

The Sinkhorn algorithm is the most popular method for solving the entropy minimization problem called the Schr\"odinger problem: in the non-degenerate cases, the latter admits a unique solution towards which the algorithm converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Aymeric Baradat , Elias Ventre