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For a fixed flow-based generative model under a small inference budget, sample quality can depend strongly on where the sampler spends its few function evaluations. Flow matching and Schr\"odinger bridges define probability paths, yet their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bruno Trentini , Dejan Stancevic , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong , Luca Ambrogioni

In this paper, we investigate the multi-marginal Schrodinger bridge (MSB) problem whose marginal constraints are marginal distributions of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) with a constant diffusion coefficient, and with time…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Rentian Yao , Young--Heon Kim , Geoffrey Schiebinger

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…

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

Diffusion models often yield highly curved trajectories and noisy score targets due to an uninformative, memoryless forward process that induces independent data-noise coupling. We propose Adjoint Schr\"odinger Bridge Matching (ASBM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jeongwoo Shin , Jinhwan Sul , Joonseok Lee , Jaewong Choi , Jaemoo Choi

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

Score-based diffusion models are frequently employed as structural priors in inverse problems. However, their iterative denoising process, initiated from Gaussian noise, often results in slow inference speeds. The Image-to-Image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Yuang Wang , Pengfei Jin , Siyeop Yoon , Matthew Tivnan , Quanzheng Li , Li Zhang , Dufan Wu

We propose a novel generative model for time series based on Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) approach. This consists in the entropic interpolation via optimal transport between a reference probability measure on path space and a target measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Mohamed Hamdouche , Pierre Henry-Labordere , Huyên Pham

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

Conditional generative models represent a significant advancement in the field of machine learning, allowing for the controlled synthesis of data by incorporating additional information into the generation process. In this work we introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-27 Hanwen Huang

This paper introduces a novel deep-learning-based approach for numerical simulation of a time-evolving Schr\"odinger equation inspired by stochastic mechanics and generative diffusion models. Unlike existing approaches, which exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Elena Orlova , Aleksei Ustimenko , Ruoxi Jiang , Peter Y. Lu , Rebecca Willett

Recent diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) in the field of pansharpening have been gradually gaining attention and have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. In this paper, we identify shortcomings in directly applying DPMs to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zihan Cao , Xiao Wu , Liang-Jian Deng

Multi-marginal Optimal Transport (mOT), a generalization of OT, aims at minimizing the integral of a cost function with respect to a distribution with some prescribed marginals. In this paper, we consider an entropic version of mOT with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Maxence Noble , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet , Alain Durmus

We study generative modeling for time series using entropic optimal transport and the Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) framework, with a focus on applications in finance and energy modeling. Extending the diffusion-based approach of Hamdouche,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-24 Stefano De Marco , Huyên Pham , Davide Zanni

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

We study the problem of generating synthetic time series that reproduce both marginal distributions and temporal dynamics, a central challenge in financial machine learning. Existing approaches typically fail to jointly model drift and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Alexandre Alouadi , Grégoire Loeper , Célian Marsala , Othmane Mazhar , Huyên Pham

Accurate segmentation of medical images is challenging due to unclear lesion boundaries and mask variability. We introduce \emph{Segmentation Sch\"{o}dinger Bridge (SSB)}, the first application of Sch\"{o}dinger Bridge for ambiguous medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lalith Bharadwaj Baru , Kamalaker Dadi , Tapabrata Chakraborti , Raju S. Bapi

The solution of the path structured multimarginal Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem (MSBP) is the most-likely measure-valued trajectory consistent with a sequence of observed probability measures or distributional snapshots. We leverage recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Georgiy A. Bondar , Robert Gifford , Linh Thi Xuan Phan , Abhishek Halder

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

We propose Image-to-Image Schr\"odinger Bridge (I$^2$SB), a new class of conditional diffusion models that directly learn the nonlinear diffusion processes between two given distributions. These diffusion bridges are particularly useful for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Guan-Horng Liu , Arash Vahdat , De-An Huang , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Weili Nie , Anima Anandkumar