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Machine learning enables unbinned, highly-differential cross section measurements. A recent idea uses generative models to morph a starting simulation into the unfolded data. We show how to extend two morphing techniques, Schr\"odinger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Anja Butter , Sascha Diefenbacher , Nathan Huetsch , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Sofia Palacios Schweitzer , Tilman Plehn

Practitioners often aim to infer an unobserved population trajectory using sample snapshots at multiple time points. E.g., given single-cell sequencing data, scientists would like to learn how gene expression changes over a cell's life…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Yunyi Shen , Renato Berlinghieri , Tamara Broderick

Score-based generative models exhibit state of the art performance on density estimation and generative modeling tasks. These models typically assume that the data geometry is flat, yet recent extensions have been developed to synthesize…

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models which simulate stochastic differential equations (SDEs) to generate data from noise. While diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress, they have limitations in unpaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Beomsu Kim , Gihyun Kwon , Kwanyoung Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Consider a reference Markov process with initial distribution $\pi_{0}$ and transition kernels $\{M_{t}\}_{t\in[1:T]}$, for some $T\in\mathbb{N}$. Assume that you are given distribution $\pi_{T}$, which is not equal to the marginal…

Computation · Statistics 2020-01-01 Espen Bernton , Jeremy Heng , Arnaud Doucet , Pierre E. Jacob

Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) is an entropy-regularized optimal transport problem that has received increasing attention in deep generative modeling for its mathematical flexibility compared to the Scored-based Generative Model (SGM). However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-04 Tianrong Chen , Guan-Horng Liu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We consider the problem of sampling from an unknown distribution for which only a sufficiently large number of training samples are available. Such settings have recently drawn considerable interest in the context of generative modelling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-24 Georg A. Gottwald , Fengyi Li , Youssef Marzouk , Sebastian Reich

Deep generative models have recently been employed for speech enhancement to generate perceptually valid clean speech on large-scale datasets. Several diffusion models have been proposed, and more recently, a tractable Schr\"odinger Bridge…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Seungu Han , Sungho Lee , Juheon Lee , Kyogu Lee

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 wide range of applications require learning image generation models whose latent space effectively captures the high-level factors of variation present in the data distribution. The extent to which a model represents such variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Avinandan Bose , Aniket Das , Yatin Dandi , Piyush Rai

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

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

We investigate the generative capabilities of the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) approach for time series. The SB framework formulates time series synthesis as an entropic optimal interpolation transport problem between a reference probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Alexandre Alouadi , Baptiste Barreau , Laurent Carlier , Huyên Pham

Deep neural networks achieve superior performance for learning from independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. However, their performance deteriorates significantly when handling out-of-distribution (OoD) data, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Haoyue Bai , Ceyuan Yang , Yinghao Xu , S. -H. Gary Chan , Bolei Zhou

Stochastic interpolants are efficient generative models that bridge two arbitrary probability density functions in finite time, enabling flexible generation from the source to the target distribution or vice versa. These models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jiawen Wu , Bingguang Chen , Yuyi Zhou , Qi Meng , Rongchan Zhu , Zhi-Ming Ma

Implicit generative modeling (IGM) aims to produce samples of synthetic data matching the characteristics of a target data distribution. Recent work (e.g. score-matching networks, diffusion models) has approached the IGM problem from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Romann M. Weber

Density ratio estimation is fundamental to tasks involving $f$-divergences, yet existing methods often fail under significantly different distributions or inadequately overlapping supports -- the density-chasm and the support-chasm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Jiacheng Li , Junmei Yang , John Paisley , Delu Zeng

The Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge Problem (SBP), which can be understood as an entropy-regularized optimal transport, seeks to compute stochastic dynamic mappings connecting two given distributions. SBP has shown significant theoretical importance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Yang Jing , Lei Li , Jingtong Zhang

We introduce and study a class of probabilistic generative models, where the latent object is a finite-dimensional diffusion process on a finite time interval and the observed variable is drawn conditionally on the terminal point of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Belinda Tzen , Maxim Raginsky

Erwin Schroedinger posed, and to a large extent solved in 1931/32 the problem of finding the most likely random evolution between two continuous probability distributions. This article considers this problem in the case when only samples of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Michele Pavon , Esteban G Tabak , Giulio Trigila