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Denoising diffusion models are a novel class of generative models that have recently become extremely popular in machine learning. In this paper, we describe how such ideas can also be used to sample from posterior distributions and, more…

Computation · Statistics 2023-08-29 Jeremy Heng , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet

Erwin Schroedinger posed, and to a large extent solved in 1931/32 the problem of finding the most likely random evolution between two continuous probability distributions. This article considers this problem in the case when only samples of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Michele Pavon , Esteban G Tabak , Giulio Trigila

Stochastic unravelings allow to efficiently simulate open system dynamics, yet their application has traditionally been restricted to master equations that preserve both Hermiticity and trace. In this work, we introduce a general framework…

We consider the task of generating discrete-time realisations of a nonlinear multivariate diffusion process satisfying an It\^o stochastic differential equation conditional on an observation taken at a fixed future time-point. Such…

Computation · Statistics 2016-04-26 Gavin A. Whitaker , Andrew Golightly , Richard J. Boys , Chris Sherlock

We introduce Triangular-Reference Schr\"odinger Bridges for Time Series (TR-SBTS), a conservative extension of the SBTS framework in which the Brownian reference is replaced by an intervalwise frozen, possibly degenerate diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Gabriele Bocchi

Metasurface inverse design is challenged by the intricate relationship between structural parameters and electromagnetic responses, as well as the high dimensionality of the optimization space. Local models, while commonly employed, quickly…

The unbalanced Schr\"odinger bridge problem (uSBP) seeks to interpolate between a probability measure $\rho_0$ and a sub-probability measure $\rho_T$ while minimizing KL divergence to a reference measure $\mathbf{R}$ on a path space. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Andrei Zlotchevski , Linan Chen

In 1931/32, Schroedinger studied a hot gas Gedankenexperiment, an instance of large deviations of the empirical distribution and an early example of the so-called maximum entropy inference method. This so-called Schroedinger bridge problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

Density ratio estimation is fundamental to tasks involving $f$-divergences, yet existing methods often fail under significantly different distributions or inadequately overlapping supports -- the density-chasm and the support-chasm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Jiacheng Li , Junmei Yang , John Paisley , Delu Zeng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziying Li , Xuequan Lu , Xinkui Zhao , Guanjie Cheng , Shuiguang Deng , Jianwei Yin

A Schr\"odinger bridge is the most probable time-dependent probability distribution that connects an initial probability distribution $w_{i}$ to a final one $w_{f}$. The problem has been solved and widely used for the case of simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-02 Henri Orland

A computational PDE-constrained optimization approach is proposed for optimal trajectory planning under uncertainty by means of an associated Schroedinger Bridge Problem (SBP). The proposed SBP formulation is interpreted as the mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dante Kalise , Wenxin Liu

We propose to learn a generative model via entropy interpolation with a Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge. The generative learning task can be formulated as interpolating between a reference distribution and a target distribution based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Gefei Wang , Yuling Jiao , Qian Xu , Yang Wang , Can Yang

Generating graph-structured data requires learning the underlying distribution of graphs. Yet, this is a challenging problem, and the previous graph generative methods either fail to capture the permutation-invariance property of graphs or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jaehyeong Jo , Seul Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Motivated by modern machine learning applications where we only have access to empirical measures constructed from finite samples, we relax the marginal constraints of the classical Schr\"odinger bridge problem by penalizing the transport…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yifan Jiang , Renyuan Xu , Luhao Zhang

We introduce a distribution-free lattice Boltzmann formulation for general compartmental reaction--diffusion systems arising in mathematical epidemiology. The proposed scheme, termed a single-step simplified lattice Boltzmann method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Alessandro De Rosis

Stochastic differential equations provide a powerful tool for modelling dynamic phenomena affected by random noise. In case of repeated observations of time series for several experimental units, it is often the case that some of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-06 Fernando Baltazar-Larios , Mogens Bladt , Michael Sørensen

We study the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem (SBP) with nonlinear prior dynamics. In control-theoretic language, this is a problem of minimum effort steering of a given joint state probability density function (PDF) to another over a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

Sampling-based algorithms are classical approaches to perform Bayesian inference in inverse problems. They provide estimators with the associated credibility intervals to quantify the uncertainty on the estimators. Although these methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Audrey Repetti , Pierre Chainais

Learning representation from relative similarity comparisons, often called ordinal embedding, gains rising attention in recent years. Most of the existing methods are batch methods designed mainly based on the convex optimization, say, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-01 Ke Ma , Jinshan Zeng , Jiechao Xiong , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Wei Liu , Yuan Yao