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Motivated by recent developments in the calibration of stochastic volatility models (SVMs for short), we study continuous-time formulations of martingale optimal transport and martingale Schr\"odinger bridge problems. We establish duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Antonios Zitridis

The Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) is a powerful framework for solving generative modeling tasks such as unpaired domain translation. Most SB-related research focuses on continuous data space $\mathbb{R}^{D}$ and leaves open theoretical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Grigoriy Ksenofontov , Alexander Korotin

Connecting optimal transport and variational inference, we present a principled and systematic framework for sampling and generative modelling centred around divergences on path space. Our work culminates in the development of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-08 Francisco Vargas , Shreyas Padhy , Denis Blessing , Nikolas Nüsken

Human migration exhibits complex spatiotemporal dependence driven by environmental and socioeconomic forces. Modeling such patterns at scale requires methods that accommodate many random effects while remaining feasible when raw data or…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Lida Chalangar Jalili Dehkharghani , Li-Hsiang Lin

Deep Ensemble (DE) approach is a straightforward technique used to enhance the performance of deep neural networks by training them from different initial points, converging towards various local optima. However, a limitation of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Hyunsu Kim , Jongmin Yoon , Juho Lee

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…

The bridge problem is to find an SDE (or sometimes an ODE) that bridges two given distributions. The application areas of the bridge problem are enormous, among which the recent generative modeling (e.g., conditional or unconditional image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Minyoung Kim

Generative modeling typically seeks the path of least action via deterministic flows (ODE). While effective for in-distribution tasks, we argue that these deterministic paths become brittle under causal interventions, which often require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rui Wu , Li YongJun

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable success in generative modeling, yet their training dynamics across different noise levels remain highly imbalanced, which can lead to inefficient optimization and unstable learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nanlong Sun , Lei Shi

In quantum machine learning (QML), classical data are often encoded as quantum pure states and processed directly as quantum representations, motivating representation-level generative modeling that samples new quantum states from an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Jian Xu , Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Chao Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Delu Zeng , John Paisley , Qibin Zhao

Support vector machine (SVM) has been one of the most popular learning algorithms, with the central idea of maximizing the minimum margin, i.e., the smallest distance from the instances to the classification boundary. Recent theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Teng Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

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

Metasurface inverse design is challenged by the intricate relationship between structural parameters and electromagnetic responses, as well as the high dimensionality of the optimization space. Local models, while commonly employed, quickly…

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

Flow matching and diffusion bridge models have emerged as leading paradigms in generative speech enhancement, modeling stochastic processes between paired noisy and clean speech signals based on principles such as flow matching, score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Dahan Wang , Jun Gao , Tong Lei , Yuxiang Hu , Changbao Zhu , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that map noise to data using stochastic processes. However, for many applications such as image editing, the model input comes from a distribution that is not random noise. As such, diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Linqi Zhou , Aaron Lou , Samar Khanna , Stefano Ermon

Recent score-based diffusion models (SBDMs) show promising results in unpaired image-to-image translation (I2I). However, existing methods, either energy-based or statistically-based, provide no explicit form of the interfered intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shikun Sun , Longhui Wei , Junliang Xing , Jia Jia , Qi Tian

Image inpainting is an important image generation task, which aims to restore corrupted image from partial visible area. Recently, diffusion Schr\"odinger bridge methods effectively tackle this task by modeling the translation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zihao Han , Baoquan Zhang , Lisai Zhang , Shanshan Feng , Kenghong Lin , Guotao Liang , Yunming Ye , Xiaochen Qi , Guangming Ye

Diffusion models have risen to prominence in time series forecasting, showcasing their robust capability to model complex data distributions. However, their effectiveness in deterministic predictions is often constrained by instability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Hao Yang , Zhanbo Feng , Feng Zhou , Robert C Qiu , Zenan Ling

Generative Semantic Communication (GSC) is a promising solution for image transmission over narrow-band and high-noise channels. However, existing GSC methods rely on long, indirect transport trajectories from a Gaussian to an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Dahua Gao , Ruichao Liu , Minxi Yang , Shuai Ma , Youlong Wu , Guangming Shi