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This study employs a neural network that represents the solution to a Schr\"odinger bridge problem to perform super-resolution of 2-m temperature in an urban area. Schr\"odinger bridges generally describe transformations between two data…

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Diffusion bridges (DB) have emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion models for imaging inverse problems, achieving faster sampling by directly bridging low- and high-quality image distributions. While incorporating measurement…

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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…

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Common image-to-image translation methods rely on joint training over data from both source and target domains. The training process requires concurrent access to both datasets, which hinders data separation and privacy protection; and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xuan Su , Jiaming Song , Chenlin Meng , Stefano Ermon

Generative diffusion models use time-forward and backward stochastic differential equations to connect the data and prior distributions. While conventional diffusion models (e.g., score-based models) only learn the backward process, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kentaro Kaba , Reo Shimizu , Masayuki Ohzeki , Yuki Sughiyama

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matteo Pariset , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Charlotte Bunne , Andreas Krause , Valentin De Bortoli

The Schrodinger Bridge and Bass (SBB) formulation, which jointly controls drift and volatility, is an established extension of the classical Schrodinger Bridge (SB). Building on this framework, we introduce LightSBB-M, an algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Alexandre Alouadi , Pierre Henry-Labordère , Grégoire Loeper , Othmane Mazhar , Huyên Pham , Nizar Touzi

Denoising diffusion models (DDM) have gained recent traction in medical image translation given improved training stability over adversarial models. DDMs learn a multi-step denoising transformation to progressively map random Gaussian-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fuat Arslan , Bilal Kabas , Onat Dalmaz , Muzaffer Ozbey , Tolga Çukur

Recently, diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech enhancement tasks. However, these methods still encounter challenges, including the lack of structural information and poor performance in low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Siyi Wang , Siyi Liu , Andrew Harper , Paul Kendrick , Mathieu Salzmann , Milos Cernak

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

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…

Computation · Statistics 2020-01-01 Espen Bernton , Jeremy Heng , Arnaud Doucet , Pierre E. Jacob

Reconstructing CT images from incomplete projection data remains challenging due to the ill-posed nature of the problem. Diffusion bridge models have recently shown promise in restoring clean images from their corresponding Filtered Back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuang Wang , Pengfei Jin , Siyeop Yoon , Matthew Tivnan , Shaoyang Zhang , Li Zhang , Quanzheng Li , Zhiqiang Chen , Dufan Wu

Retinal fundus photography is significant in diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, systemic imperfections and operator/patient-related factors can hinder the acquisition of high-quality retinal images. Previous efforts in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Xuanzhao Dong , Vamsi Krishna Vasa , Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Xiwen Chen , Yi Su , Yujian Xiong , Zhangsihao Yang , Yanxi Chen , Yalin Wang

We consider the problem of simulating diffusion bridges, which are diffusion processes that are conditioned to initialize and terminate at two given states. The simulation of diffusion bridges has applications in diverse scientific fields…

Computation · Statistics 2025-06-19 Jeremy Heng , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet , James Thornton

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for next-generation wireless systems. In this paper, we present a novel ISAC scheme that leverages the diffusion Schrodinger bridge (DSB) to realize the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Yuhua Jiang , Feifei Gao , Shi Jin

Transporting between arbitrary distributions is a fundamental goal in generative modeling. Recently proposed diffusion bridge models provide a potential solution, but they rely on a joint distribution that is difficult to obtain in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jun Hyeong Kim , Seonghwan Kim , Seokhyun Moon , Hyeongwoo Kim , Jeheon Woo , Woo Youn Kim

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-22 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Jonathan Niles-Weed

Diffusion models exhibit powerful generative capabilities enabling noise mapping to data via reverse stochastic differential equations. However, in image restoration, the focus is on the mapping relationship from low-quality to high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Conghan Yue , Zhengwei Peng , Junlong Ma , Shiyan Du , Pengxu Wei , Dongyu Zhang

We consider solving ill-posed imaging inverse problems without access to an image prior or ground-truth examples. An overarching challenge in these inverse problems is that an infinite number of images, including many that are implausible,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Oscar Leong , Angela F. Gao , He Sun , Katherine L. Bouman

Computational methods for learning to sample from the Boltzmann distribution -- where the target distribution is known only up to an unnormalized energy function -- have advanced significantly recently. Due to the lack of explicit target…

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