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We consider the problem to identify the most likely flow in phase space, of (inertial) particles under stochastic forcing, that is in agreement with spatial (marginal) distributions that are specified at a set of points in time. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Yongxin Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Luigia Ripani

The Schr\"odinger bridge problem (SBP) finds the most likely stochastic evolution between two probability distributions given a prior stochastic evolution. As well as applications in the natural sciences, problems of this kind have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-31 Francisco Vargas , Pierre Thodoroff , Neil D. Lawrence , Austen Lamacraft

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

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

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Andrei Zlotchevski , Linan Chen

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

The subject of this work has its roots in the so called Schroedginer Bridge Problem (SBP) which asks for the most likely distribution of Brownian particles in their passage between observed empirical marginal distributions at two distinct…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

A Schr\"odinger bridge is the most probable time-dependent probability distribution that connects an initial probability distribution $w_{i}$ to a final one $w_{f}$. The problem has been solved and widely used for the case of simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-02 Henri Orland

The Quantum Schr\"odinger Bridge Problem (QSBP) describes the evolution of a stochastic process between two arbitrary probability distributions, where the dynamics are governed by the Schr\"odinger equation rather than by the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mykola Bordyuh , Djork-Arné Clevert , Marco Bertolini

The Schr\"odinger bridge problem (SBP) is gaining increasing attention in generative modeling and showing promising potential even in comparison with the score-based generative models (SGMs). SBP can be interpreted as an entropy-regularized…

The purpose of the present work is to expand substantially the type of control and estimation problems that can be addressed following the paradigm of Schr\"odinger bridges, by incorporating termination (killing) of stochastic flows.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Asmaa Eldesoukey , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Schr\"odinger bridges (SBs) provide an elegant framework for modeling the temporal evolution of populations in physical, chemical, or biological systems. Such natural processes are commonly subject to changes in population size over time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matteo Pariset , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Charlotte Bunne , Andreas Krause , Valentin De Bortoli

We consider the problem to steer a linear dynamical system with full state observation from an initial gaussian distribution in state-space to a final one with minimum energy control. The system is stochastically driven through the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

The classical Schrodinger bridge seeks the most likely probability law for a diffusion process, in path space, that matches marginals at two end points in time; the likelihood is quantified by the relative entropy between the sought law and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

We study a generalization of the Brownian bridge as a stochastic process that models the position and velocity of inertial particles between the two end-points of a time interval. The particles experience random acceleration and are assumed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou

Diffusion Schr\"odinger bridges (DSB) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for recovering stochastic dynamics via their marginal observations at different time points. Despite numerous successful applications, existing algorithms…

The unbalanced Schr\"odinger bridge problem (uSBP) seeks to interpolate between a probability measure $\rho_0$ and a sub-probability measure $\rho_T$ while minimizing KL divergence to a reference measure $\mathbf{R}$ on a path space. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Andrei Zlotchevski , Linan Chen

Schr\"{o}dinger bridge can be viewed as a continuous-time stochastic control problem where the goal is to find an optimally controlled diffusion process whose terminal distribution coincides with a pre-specified target distribution. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-23 Jhanvi Garg , Xianyang Zhang , Quan Zhou

The Schr\"odinger bridge problem is concerned with finding a stochastic dynamical system bridging two marginal distributions that minimises a certain transportation cost. This problem, which represents a generalisation of optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kirill Tamogashev , Nikolay Malkin

A computational PDE-constrained optimization approach is proposed for optimal trajectory planning under uncertainty by means of an associated Schroedinger Bridge Problem (SBP). The proposed SBP formulation is interpreted as the mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dante Kalise , Wenxin Liu

We study the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem (SBP) with nonlinear prior dynamics. In control-theoretic language, this is a problem of minimum effort steering of a given joint state probability density function (PDF) to another over a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder
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