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Diffusion models (DMs) have become the dominant paradigm of generative modeling in a variety of domains by learning stochastic processes from noise to data. Recently, diffusion denoising bridge models (DDBMs), a new formulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Guande He , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

Diffusion Bridge and Flow Matching have both demonstrated compelling empirical performance in transformation between arbitrary distributions. However, there remains confusion about which approach is generally preferable, and the substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kaizhen Zhu , Mokai Pan , Zhechuan Yu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Diffusion models have risen as a promising approach to data-driven planning, and have demonstrated impressive robotic control, reinforcement learning, and video planning performance. Given an effective planner, an important question to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Shun Zhang , Mengdi Xu , Yikang Shen , Wei Xiao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

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

Schrodinger Bridges (SBs) are diffusion processes that steer, in finite time, a given initial distribution to another final one while minimizing a suitable cost functional. Although various methods for computing SBs have recently been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 George Rapakoulias , Ali Reza Pedram , Fengjiao Liu , Lingjiong Zhu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Diffusion models have recently shown significant potential in solving decision-making problems, particularly in generating behavior plans -- also known as diffusion planning. While numerous studies have demonstrated the impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haofei Lu , Dongqi Han , Yifei Shen , Dongsheng Li

Imitation learning empowers artificial agents to mimic behavior by learning from demonstrations. Recently, diffusion models, which have the ability to model high-dimensional and multimodal distributions, have shown impressive performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Kaiqi Chen , Eugene Lim , Kelvin Lin , Yiyang Chen , Harold Soh

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

Score-based generative models exhibit state of the art performance on density estimation and generative modeling tasks. These models typically assume that the data geometry is flat, yet recent extensions have been developed to synthesize…

Resampling from a target measure whose density is unknown is a fundamental problem in mathematical statistics and machine learning. A setting that dominates the machine learning literature consists of learning a map from an easy-to-sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Leticia Mattos Da Silva , Silvia Sellán , Francisco Vargas , Justin Solomon

Diffusion models, which leverage stochastic processes to capture complex data distributions effectively, have shown their performance as generative models, achieving notable success in image-related tasks through iterative denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Toshihide Ubukata , Jialong Li , Kenji Tei

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jeongsol Kim , Beomsu Kim , Jong Chul Ye

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

Learning diffusion bridge models is easy; making them fast and practical is an art. Diffusion bridge models (DBMs) are a promising extension of diffusion models for applications in image-to-image translation. However, like many modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Nikita Gushchin , David Li , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Alexander Korotin

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

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

Compared to the existing function-based models in deep generative modeling, the recently proposed diffusion models have achieved outstanding performance with a stochastic-process-based approach. But a long sampling time is required for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ki-Ung Song

Diffusion-based planners have shown strong potential for autonomous driving by capturing multi-modal driving behaviors. A key challenge is how to effectively guide these models for safe and reactive planning in closed-loop settings, where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shu Liu , Wenlin Chen , Weihao Li , Zheng Wang , Lijin Yang , Jianing Huang , Yipin Zhang , Zhongzhan Huang , Ze Cheng , Hao Yang

Mass transport problems arise in many areas of machine learning whereby one wants to compute a map transporting one distribution to another. Generative modeling techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Denoising Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Valentin De Bortoli , Iryna Korshunova , Andriy Mnih , Arnaud Doucet