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Conditional generative models represent a significant advancement in the field of machine learning, allowing for the controlled synthesis of data by incorporating additional information into the generation process. In this work we introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-27 Hanwen Huang

It is a crucial challenge to reconstruct population dynamics using unlabeled samples from distributions at coarse time intervals. Recent approaches such as flow-based models or Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) models have demonstrated appealing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-06 Tianrong Chen , Guan-Horng Liu , Molei Tao , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Computational optimal transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful framework with applications in various fields. In this paper we focus on a relaxation of the original OT problem, the entropic OT problem, which allows to implement…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Giacomo Greco , Maxence Noble , Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus

This work studies the Schr\"odinger bridge problem for the kinematic equation on a compact connected Lie group. The objective is to steer a controlled diffusion between given initial and terminal densities supported over the Lie group while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Hamza Mahmood , Abhishek Halder , Adeel Akhtar

This paper aims to unify Score-based Generative Models (SGMs), also known as Diffusion models, and the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem through three reparameterization techniques: Iterative Proportional Mean-Matching (IPMM), Iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhicong Tang , Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

A Schr\"{o}dinger bridge establishes a dynamic transport map between two target distributions via a reference process, simultaneously solving an associated entropic optimal transport problem. We consider the setting where samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Stefano Peluchetti

Over the last several years, there has been significant progress in developing neural solvers for the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem and applying them to generative modelling. This new research field is justifiably fruitful as it is…

Generative diffusion models use time-forward and backward stochastic differential equations to connect the data and prior distributions. While conventional diffusion models (e.g., score-based models) only learn the backward process, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kentaro Kaba , Reo Shimizu , Masayuki Ohzeki , Yuki Sughiyama

The Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) problem and its dynamic counterpart, the Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) problem, play an important role in modern machine learning, linking generative modeling with optimal transport theory. While recent…

We study generative modeling for time series using entropic optimal transport and the Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) framework, with a focus on applications in finance and energy modeling. Extending the diffusion-based approach of Hamdouche,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-24 Stefano De Marco , Huyên Pham , Davide Zanni

Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT), also referred to as the Schr\"odinger problem, seeks to find a random processes with prescribed initial/final marginals and with minimal relative entropy with respect to a reference measure. The relative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Marc Hoffmann , Grégoire Loeper , François-Xavier Vialard

Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) has emerged as the go-to method for optimizing transportation plans in diffusion models. However, SB requires estimating the intractable forward score functions, inevitably resulting in the costly implicit training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wei Deng , Weijian Luo , Yixin Tan , Marin Biloš , Yu Chen , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Ricky T. Q. Chen

In this paper, we show a large deviation principle for certain sequences of static Schr\"{o}dinger bridges, typically motivated by a scale-parameter decreasing towards zero, extending existing large deviation results to cover a wider range…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Viktor Nilsson , Pierre Nyquist

In the early 1930's, Erwin Schroedinger, motivated by his quest for a more classical formulation of quantum mechanics, posed a large deviation problem for a cloud of independent Brownian particles. He showed that the solution to the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Montacer Essid , Michele Pavon

Leveraging connections between diffusion-based sampling, optimal transport, and stochastic optimal control through their shared links to the Schr\"odinger bridge problem, we propose novel objective functions that can be used to transport…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-11 Qijia Jiang , David Nabergoj

Complex systems can be effectively modeled via graphs that encode networked interactions, where relations between entities or nodes are often quantified by signed edge weights, e.g., promotion/inhibition in gene regulatory networks, or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Anqi Dong , Can Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou

In this paper, we investigate the multi-marginal Schrodinger bridge (MSB) problem whose marginal constraints are marginal distributions of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) with a constant diffusion coefficient, and with time…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Rentian Yao , Young--Heon Kim , Geoffrey Schiebinger

The Schr\"odinger bridge problem (SBP) aims at finding the measure $\hat{\mathbf{P}}$ on a certain path space which possesses the desired state-space distributions $\rho_0$ at time $0$ and $\rho_T$ at time $T$ while minimizing the KL…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Andrei Zlotchevski , Linan Chen

Schr\"{o}dinger bridge--a stochastic dynamical generalization of optimal mass transport--exhibits a learning-control duality. Viewed as a stochastic control problem, the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge finds an optimal control policy that steers a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Alexis M. H. Teter , Wenqing Wang , Abhishek Halder

Diffusion models have become the go-to method for large-scale generative models in real-world applications. These applications often involve data distributions confined within bounded domains, typically requiring ad-hoc thresholding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-09 Wei Deng , Yu Chen , Nicole Tianjiao Yang , Hengrong Du , Qi Feng , Ricky T. Q. Chen
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