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Score-based generative models have recently attracted significant attention for their ability to generate high-fidelity data by learning maps from simple Gaussian priors to complex data distributions. A natural generalization of this idea…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-19 Hanwen Huang

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…

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…

Although optimal transport (OT) problems admit closed form solutions in a very few notable cases, e.g. in 1D or between Gaussians, these closed forms have proved extremely fecund for practitioners to define tools inspired from the OT…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Hicham Janati , Boris Muzellec , Gabriel Peyré , Marco Cuturi

The Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that connects two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. Finding such a transport map has diverse applications in machine learning, such as generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi

Mass transport problems arise in many areas of machine learning whereby one wants to compute a map transporting one distribution to another. Generative modeling techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Denoising Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Valentin De Bortoli , Iryna Korshunova , Andriy Mnih , Arnaud Doucet

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

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

Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment provide interpretable geometric frameworks for comparing, transforming, and aggregating heterogeneous datasets -- tasks ubiquitous in data science and machine learning. Because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sanjit Dandapanthula , Aleksandr Podkopaev , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Aaditya Ramdas , Ziv Goldfeld

Predicting single-cell perturbation outcomes directly advances gene function analysis and facilitates drug candidate selection, making it a key driver of both basic and translational biomedical research. However, a major bottleneck in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Changxi Chi , Yufei Huang , Jun Xia , Jiangbin Zheng , Yunfan Liu , Zelin Zang , Stan Z. Li

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

Solving transport problems, i.e. finding a map transporting one given distribution to another, has numerous applications in machine learning. Novel mass transport methods motivated by generative modeling have recently been proposed, e.g.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-13 Yuyang Shi , Valentin De Bortoli , Andrew Campbell , Arnaud Doucet

We take a new look at the relation between the optimal transport problem and the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem from the stochastic control perspective. We show that the connections are richer and deeper than described in existing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

We investigate the problem of sampling from posterior distributions with intractable normalizing constants in Bayesian inference. Our solution is a new generative modeling approach based on optimal transport (OT) that learns a deterministic…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-03 Ke Li , Wei Han , Yuexi Wang , Yun Yang

Given two boundary distributions, the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem seeks the ``most likely`` random evolution between them with respect to a reference process. It has revealed rich connections to recent machine learning methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Maosheng Yang

Optimal transport (OT), and in particular the Wasserstein distance, has seen a surge of interest and applications in machine learning. However, empirical approximation under Wasserstein distances suffers from a severe curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald

In this work, we revisit the discrete-time Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge (SB) and Density Steering (DS) problems for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) boundary distributions. Building on the existing literature, we construct a set of feasible Markovian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 George Rapakoulias , Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Entropic optimal transport problems are regularized versions of optimal transport problems. These models play an increasingly important role in machine learning and generative modelling. For finite spaces, these problems are commonly solved…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Pierre Del Moral , Joaquín Miguez

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

Generative AI can be framed as the problem of learning a model that maps simple reference measures into complex data distributions, and it has recently found a strong connection to the classical theory of the Schr\"odinger bridge problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jin Ma , Ying Tan , Renyuan Xu
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