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We present simulation-free score and flow matching ([SF]$^2$M), a simulation-free objective for inferring stochastic dynamics given unpaired samples drawn from arbitrary source and target distributions. Our method generalizes both the…

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…

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Subsampling is commonly used to mitigate costs associated with data acquisition, such as time or energy requirements, motivating the development of algorithms for estimating the fully-sampled signal of interest $x$ from partially observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Oisin Nolan , Tristan S. W. Stevens , Wessel L. van Nierop , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Recent advancements in optimization-based text-to-3D generation heavily rely on distilling knowledge from pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models using techniques like Score Distillation Sampling (SDS), which often introduce artifacts…

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Learning to sample from complex unnormalized distributions over discrete domains emerged as a promising research direction with applications in statistical physics, variational inference, and combinatorial optimization. Recent work has…

We study the problem of training diffusion and flow generative models to sample from target distributions defined by an exponential tilting of a base density; a formulation that subsumes both sampling from unnormalized densities and reward…

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Recent diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) in the field of pansharpening have been gradually gaining attention and have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. In this paper, we identify shortcomings in directly applying DPMs to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zihan Cao , Xiao Wu , Liang-Jian Deng

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

This paper aims to unify Score-based Generative Models (SGMs), also known as Diffusion models, and the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem through three reparameterization techniques: Iterative Proportional Mean-Matching (IPMM), Iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhicong Tang , Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

In this work, we investigate application of generative speech enhancement to improve the robustness of ASR models in noisy and reverberant conditions. We employ a recently-proposed speech enhancement model based on Schr\"odinger bridge,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Rauf Nasretdinov , Roman Korostik , Ante Jukić

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…

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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

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

The task of learning a diffusion-based neural sampler for drawing samples from an unnormalized target distribution can be viewed as a stochastic optimal control problem on path measures. However, the training of neural samplers can be…

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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 (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

We present a drifting-based framework for amortized sampling of Boltzmann distributions defined by energy functions. The method trains a one-step neural generator by projecting samples along a Gaussian-smoothed score field from the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wenhan Cao , Keyu Yan , Lin Zhao

Sequential Monte Carlo has become a standard tool for Bayesian Inference of complex models. This approach can be computationally demanding, especially when initialized from the prior distribution. On the other hand, deter-ministic…

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In recent advancements in proton therapy, MR-based treatment planning is gaining momentum to minimize additional radiation exposure compared to traditional CT-based methods. This transition highlights the critical need for accurate MR-to-CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Muheng Li , Xia Li , Sairos Safai , Damien Weber , Antony Lomax , Ye Zhang

This work introduces a novel nonlinear optimal filtering method, termed the Ensemble Schr{\"o}dinger Bridge nonlinear filter. The proposed filter combines the standard prediction step with a diffusion-generative-modeling-based analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hui Sun