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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

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

We present simulation-free score and flow matching ([SF]$^2$M), a simulation-free objective for inferring stochastic dynamics given unpaired samples drawn from arbitrary source and target distributions. Our method generalizes both the…

Denoising diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful class of generative models. They provide state-of-the-art results, not only for unconditional simulation, but also when used to solve conditional simulation problems arising in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-28 Yuyang Shi , Valentin De Bortoli , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet

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 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 introduce Lagrangian Flow Networks (LFlows) for modeling fluid densities and velocities continuously in space and time. By construction, the proposed LFlows satisfy the continuity equation, a PDE describing mass conservation in its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 F. Arend Torres , Marcello Massimo Negri , Marco Inversi , Jonathan Aellen , Volker Roth

This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive theoretical analysis of current diffusion models. We introduce a novel generative learning methodology utilizing the Schr{\"o}dinger bridge diffusion model in latent space as the framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-24 Yuling Jiao , Lican Kang , Huazhen Lin , Jin Liu , Heng Zuo

The time evolution of spatial fluctuations in inhomogeneous d-dimensional biological systems is analyzed. A single species continuous growth model, in which the population disperses via diffusion and convection is considered.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 David R. Nelson , Nadav M. Shnerb

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

Modeling neural population dynamics underlying noisy single-trial spiking activities is essential for relating neural observation and behavior. A recent non-recurrent method - Neural Data Transformers (NDT) - has shown great success in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-13 Trung Le , Eli Shlizerman

In image generation, Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB)-based methods theoretically enhance the efficiency and quality compared to the diffusion models by finding the least costly path between two distributions. However, they are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xingyu Qiu , Mengying Yang , Xinghua Ma , Fanding Li , Dong Liang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Kuanquan Wang , Shuo Li

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

Existing work on population dynamics inference often focuses on flows arising from vector fields that are the gradients of scalar potentials. Among all admissible flows that are compatible with the population dynamics, gradient flows are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jules Berman , Tobias Blickhan , Benjamin Peherstorfer

Many natural dynamic processes -- such as in vivo cellular differentiation or disease progression -- can only be observed through the lens of static sample snapshots. While challenging, reconstructing their temporal evolution to decipher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Thomas Gravier , Thomas Boyer , Auguste Genovesio

Modeling the dynamics from sparsely time-resolved snapshot data is crucial for understanding complex cellular processes and behavior. Existing methods leverage optimal transport, Schr\"odinger bridge theory, or their variants to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhenyi Zhang , Zihan Wang , Yuhao Sun , Tiejun Li , Peijie Zhou

We present Fractional Diffusion Bridge Models (FDBM), a novel generative diffusion bridge framework driven by an approximation of the rich and non-Markovian fractional Brownian motion (fBM). Real stochastic processes exhibit a degree of…

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

Denoising diffusion models are a novel class of generative models that have recently become extremely popular in machine learning. In this paper, we describe how such ideas can also be used to sample from posterior distributions and, more…

Computation · Statistics 2023-08-29 Jeremy Heng , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet

Understanding the continuous evolution of populations from discrete temporal snapshots is a critical research challenge, particularly in fields like developmental biology and systems medicine where longitudinal tracking of individual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Byoungwoo Park , Juho Lee