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The dynamic Schr\"odinger bridge problem provides an appealing setting for solving constrained time-series data generation tasks posed as optimal transport problems. It consists of learning non-linear diffusion processes using efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Ella Tamir , Martin Trapp , Arno Solin

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…

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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

Adversarial diffusion and diffusion-inversion methods have advanced unpaired image-to-image translation, but each faces key limitations. Adversarial approaches require target-domain adversarial loss during training, which can limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jiaming Liu , Felix Petersen , Yunhe Gao , Yabin Zhang , Hyojin Kim , Akshay S. Chaudhari , Yu Sun , Stefano Ermon , Sergios Gatidis

The emergence of diffusion models has significantly advanced generative AI, improving the quality, realism, and creativity of image and video generation. Among them, Stable Diffusion (StableDiff) stands out as a key model for text-to-image…

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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 study Diffusion Schr\"odinger Bridge (DSB) models in the context of dynamical astrophysical systems, specifically tackling observational inverse prediction tasks within Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) for star formation. We introduce the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Ye Zhu , Duo Xu , Zhiwei Deng , Jonathan C. Tan , Olga Russakovsky

Learning generative models in settings where the source and target distributions are only specified through unpaired samples is gaining in importance. Here, one frequently-used model are Schr\"odinger bridges (SB), which represent the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tobias Fuchs , Florian Kalinke , Nadja Klein

Diffusion bridges have shown potential in paired image-to-image (I2I) translation tasks. However, existing methods are limited by their unidirectional nature, requiring separate models for forward and reverse translations. This not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Duc Kieu , Kien Do , Toan Nguyen , Dang Nguyen , Thin Nguyen

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

We provide a general framework for learning diffusion bridges that transport prior to target distributions. It includes existing diffusion models for generative modeling, but also underdamped versions with degenerate diffusion matrices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Denis Blessing , Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Gerhard Neumann

Denoising diffusion bridge models (DDBMs) are a powerful variant of diffusion models for interpolating between two arbitrary paired distributions given as endpoints. Despite their promising performance in tasks like image translation, DDBMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Kaiwen Zheng , Guande He , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

Diffusion bridge models offer a powerful framework for connecting two data distributions, such as in image restoration and translation. Many existing methods learn this bridge by mimicking the score-matching formulation of standard…

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The Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) problem and its dynamic counterpart, the Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) problem, play an important role in modern machine learning, linking generative modeling with optimal transport theory. While recent…

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

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

We introduce a theoretical framework for diffusion-based image editing by formulating it as a reverse-time bridge modeling problem. This approach modifies the backward process of a pretrained diffusion model to construct a bridge that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Toan Nguyen , Kien Do , Duc Kieu , Thin Nguyen

Diffusion-based image-to-image (I2I) translation excels in high-fidelity generation but suffers from slow sampling in state-of-the-art Diffusion Bridge Models (DBMs), often requiring dozens of function evaluations (NFEs). We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sankarshana Venugopal , Mohammad Mostafavi , Jonghyun Choi

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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