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Generalized Schr\"odinger Bridges (GSBs) are a fundamental mathematical framework used to analyze the most likely particle evolution based on the principle of least action including kinetic and potential energy. In parallel to their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-31 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The Lambert problem originated in orbital mechanics. It concerns with determining the initial velocity for a boundary value problem involving the dynamical constraint due to gravitational potential with additional time horizon and endpoint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Alexis M. H. Teter , Iman Nodozi , Abhishek Halder

Modern distribution matching algorithms for training diffusion or flow models directly prescribe the time evolution of the marginal distributions between two boundary distributions. In this work, we consider a generalized distribution…

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

We study the Schr\"odinger-Bass problem, a one-parameter family of semimartingale optimal transport problems indexed by $\beta>0$, whose limiting regimes interpolate between the classical Schr\"odinger bridge, the Brenier-Strassen problem,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Manuel Hasenbichler , Gudmund Pammer , Stefan Thonhauser

We study the problem of identifying an optimal coupling between input-output distributional data generated by a causal dynamical system. The coupling is required to satisfy prescribed marginal distributions and a causality constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Daran Xu , Amirhossein Taghvaei

We consider the problem of steering an initial probability density for the state vector of a linear system to a final one, in finite time, using minimum energy control. In the case where the dynamics correspond to an integrator ($\dot x(t)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

Optimal transport (OT) and Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) problems have emerged as powerful frameworks for transferring probability distributions with minimal cost. However, existing approaches typically focus on endpoint matching while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen

Reconstructing dynamics using samples from sparsely time-resolved snapshots is an important problem in both natural sciences and machine learning. Here, we introduce a new deep learning approach for solving regularized unbalanced optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhenyi Zhang , Tiejun Li , Peijie Zhou

Most common Optimal Transport (OT) solvers are currently based on an approximation of underlying measures by discrete measures. However, it is sometimes relevant to work only with moments of measures instead of the measure itself, and many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Olga Mula , Anthony Nouy

Recent advances in flow-based generative modelling have provided scalable methods for computing the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) between distributions, a dynamic form of entropy-regularised Optimal Transport (OT) for the quadratic cost. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Samuel Howard , Peter Potaptchik , George Deligiannidis

Inferring cellular trajectories from destructive snapshots is complicated by the challenges of stochasticity and non-conservative mass dynamics such as cell proliferation and apoptosis. Existing unbalanced Optimal Transport (OT) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Junda Ying , Yuxuan Wang , Bowen Yang , Peijie Zhou , Lei Zhang

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

This short paper announces the main results of \cite{SBB2026}, where the Schr\"odinger--Bass Bridge (SBB) problem is introduced and studied in full generality. Here we provide a direct PDE derivation of the SBB system in dimension one,…

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

The Schr\"odinger bridge problem seeks the optimal stochastic process that connects two given probability distributions with minimal energy modification. While the Sinkhorn algorithm is widely used to solve the static optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Ibuki Maeda , Rentian Yao , Atsushi Nitanda

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

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

Despite the recent advances in the field of computational Schr\"odinger Bridges (SB), most existing SB solvers are still heavy-weighted and require complex optimization of several neural networks. It turns out that there is no principal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Alexander Korotin , Nikita Gushchin , Evgeny Burnaev

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for learning minimal-displacement maps between distributions. The predominant approach involves a neural parametrization of the Monge formulation of OT, typically assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Athina Sotiropoulou , David Alvarez-Melis