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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…
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…
Consider a reference Markov process with initial distribution $\pi_{0}$ and transition kernels $\{M_{t}\}_{t\in[1:T]}$, for some $T\in\mathbb{N}$. Assume that you are given distribution $\pi_{T}$, which is not equal to the marginal…
Schr\"{o}dinger bridge is a stochastic optimal control problem to steer a given initial state density to another, subject to controlled diffusion and deadline constraints. A popular method to numerically solve the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge…
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…
Diffusion models (DMs), which enable both image generation from noise and inversion from data, have inspired powerful unpaired image-to-image (I2I) translation algorithms. However, they often require a larger number of neural function…
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…
Predicting the intermediate trajectories between an initial and target distribution is a central problem in generative modeling. Existing approaches, such as flow matching and Schr\"odinger bridge matching, effectively learn mappings…
This paper exploit the equivalence between the Schr\"odinger Bridge problem and the entropy penalized optimal transport in order to find a different approach to the duality, in the spirit of optimal transport. This approach results in a…
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,…
Learning discrete neural samplers is challenging due to the lack of gradients and combinatorial complexity. While stochastic optimal control (SOC) and Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) provide principled solutions, efficient SOC solvers like…
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.…
We study nonparametric estimation of Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) drifts from i.i.d.\ data observed on a single time interval. Starting from the conditional-ratio form of the Schr\"odinger bridge time-series (SBTS) drift formula, we analyze a…
We propose a procedure for estimating the Schr\"odinger bridge between two probability distributions. Unlike existing approaches, our method does not require iteratively simulating forward and backward diffusions or training neural networks…
We study the Schr\"odinger bridge problem when the endpoint distributions are available only through samples. Classical computational approaches estimate Schr\"odinger potentials via Sinkhorn iterations on empirical measures and then…
The Sinkhorn algorithm is the most popular method for solving the entropy minimization problem called the Schr\"odinger problem: in the non-degenerate cases, the latter admits a unique solution towards which the algorithm converges…
The Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem has become a fundamental tool in computational optimal transport and generative modeling. To address this problem, ideal methods such as Iterative Proportional Fitting and Iterative Markovian Fitting…
We present Schr\"odinger Bridge Mamba (SBM), a novel model for efficient speech enhancement by integrating the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) training paradigm and the Mamba architecture. Experiments of joint denoising and dereverberation tasks…
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…
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…