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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

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations provide a fundamental tool for characterizing molecular behavior at full atomic resolution, but their applicability is severely constrained by the computational cost. To address this, a surge of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ziyang Yu , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu

Modern distribution matching algorithms for training diffusion or flow models directly prescribe the time evolution of the marginal distributions between two boundary distributions. In this work, we consider a generalized distribution…

The Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge Problem (SBP), which can be understood as an entropy-regularized optimal transport, seeks to compute stochastic dynamic mappings connecting two given distributions. SBP has shown significant theoretical importance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Yang Jing , Lei Li , Jingtong Zhang

The dynamic Schr\"odinger bridge problem seeks a stochastic process that defines a transport between two target probability measures, while optimally satisfying the criteria of being closest, in terms of Kullback-Leibler divergence, to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-25 Stefano Peluchetti

Inferring cellular trajectories from destructive snapshots is complicated by the challenges of stochasticity and non-conservative mass dynamics such as cell proliferation and apoptosis. Existing unbalanced Optimal Transport (OT) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Junda Ying , Yuxuan Wang , Bowen Yang , Peijie Zhou , Lei Zhang

Schr\"odinger Bridges (SB) have recently gained the attention of the ML community as a promising extension of classic diffusion models which is also interconnected to the Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT). Recent solvers for SB exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Nikita Gushchin , Sergei Kholkin , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

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

We consider the Schr\"odinger bridge problem which, given ensemble measurements of the initial and final configurations of a stochastic dynamical system and some prior knowledge on the dynamics, aims to reconstruct the "most likely"…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-04 Stephen Y. Zhang , Michael P H Stumpf

Population dynamics is the study of temporal and spatial variation in the size of populations of organisms and is a major part of population ecology. One of the main difficulties in analyzing population dynamics is that we can only obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Takeshi Koshizuka , Issei Sato

At the core of modern generative modeling frameworks, including diffusion models, score-based models, and flow matching, is the task of transforming a simple prior distribution into a complex target distribution through stochastic paths in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sophia Tang

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…

Recent advancements in diffusion bridges for distribution transport problems have heavily relied on matching frameworks, yet existing methods often face a trade-off between scalability and access to optimal pairings during training. Fully…

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

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

Solving transport problems, i.e. finding a map transporting one given distribution to another, has numerous applications in machine learning. Novel mass transport methods motivated by generative modeling have recently been proposed, e.g.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-13 Yuyang Shi , Valentin De Bortoli , Andrew Campbell , Arnaud Doucet

There is mounting evidence that entanglement dynamics in chaotic many-body quantum systems in the limit of large subsystems and long times is described by an entanglement membrane effective theory. In this paper, we derive the membrane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Márk Mezei , Harshit Rajgadia

We consider the problem to identify the most likely flow in phase space, of (inertial) particles under stochastic forcing, that is in agreement with spatial (marginal) distributions that are specified at a set of points in time. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Yongxin Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Luigia Ripani

The purpose of the present work is to expand substantially the type of control and estimation problems that can be addressed following the paradigm of Schr\"odinger bridges, by incorporating termination (killing) of stochastic flows.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Asmaa Eldesoukey , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Tryphon T. Georgiou

The Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem offers a powerful framework for combining optimal transport and diffusion models. A promising recent approach to solve the SB problem is the Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) procedure, which alternates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Nikita Gushchin , Daniil Selikhanovych , Sergei Kholkin , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin