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In this work, we study a discrete Schr\"odinger bridge problem with partial marginal observations. A main difficulty compared to the classical Schr\"odinger bridge formulation is that our problem is not strictly convex and standard…

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For a fixed flow-based generative model under a small inference budget, sample quality can depend strongly on where the sampler spends its few function evaluations. Flow matching and Schr\"odinger bridges define probability paths, yet their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bruno Trentini , Dejan Stancevic , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong , Luca Ambrogioni

Denoising diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful class of generative models. They provide state-of-the-art results, not only for unconditional simulation, but also when used to solve conditional simulation problems arising in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-28 Yuyang Shi , Valentin De Bortoli , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet

Motivated by applications in trajectory inference and particle tracking, we introduce Smooth Schr\"odinger Bridges. Our proposal generalizes prior work by allowing the reference process in the Schr\"odinger Bridge problem to be a smooth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Wanli Hong , Yuliang Shi , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We consider the adaptive test for the parameter change in discretely observed ergodic diffusion processes based on the cusum test. Using two test statistics based on the two quasi-log likelihood functions of the diffusion parameter and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Yozo Tonaki , Yusuke Kaino , Masayuki Uchida

We investigate the dispersive properties of solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation with a weakly decaying radial potential on cones. If the potential has sufficient polynomial decay at infinity, then we show that the Schr\"odinger flow on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Blake Keeler , Jeremy L. Marzuola

We show that the small-time asymptotics of the sub-Riemannian heat kernel, its derivatives, and its logarithmic derivatives can be localized, allowing them to be studied even on incomplete manifolds, under essentially optimal conditions on…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Robert W. Neel , Ludovic Sacchelli

We study a martingale Schr\"odinger bridge problem: given two probability distributions, find their martingale coupling with minimal relative entropy. Our main result provides Schr\"odinger potentials for this coupling. Namely, under…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Marcel Nutz , Johannes Wiesel

We propose simple methods for multivariate diffusion bridge simulation, which plays a fundamental role in simulation-based likelihood and Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations. By a novel application of classical coupling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Mogens Bladt , Samuel Finch , Michael Sørensen

Chernoff approximations of Feller semigroups and the associated diffusion processes in Riemannian manifolds are studied. The manifolds are assumed to be of bounded geometry, thus including all compact manifolds and also a wide range of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Sonia Mazzucchi , Valter Moretti , Ivan Remizov , Oleg Smolyanov

We study the problem of unbiased estimation of expectations with respect to (w.r.t.) $\pi$ a given, general probability measure on $(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^d))$ that is absolutely continuous with respect to a standard Gaussian…

Computation · Statistics 2022-10-26 Hamza Ruzayqat , Alexandros Beskos , Dan Crisan , Ajay Jasra , Nikolas Kantas

Diffusion processes are fundamental in modelling stochastic dynamics in natural sciences. Recently, simulating such processes on complicated geometries has found applications for example in biology, where toroidal data arises naturally when…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Mathias Højgaard Jensen , Anton Mallasto , Stefan Sommer

We give an example of a mathematical model describing quantum mechanical processes interacting with medium. As a model, we consider the process of heat scattering of a wave function defined on the phase space. We consider the case when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 E. M. Beniaminov

We propose a new approach to quantize the marginals of the discrete Euler diffusion process. The method is built recursively and involves the conditional distribution of the marginals of the discrete Euler process. Analytically, the method…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-25 Gilles Pagès , Abass Sagna

The momentum Schr\"odinger Bridge (mSB) has emerged as a leading method for accelerating generative diffusion processes and reducing transport costs. However, the lack of simulation-free properties inevitably results in high training costs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-29 Kevin Rojas , Yixin Tan , Molei Tao , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Wei Deng

We consider graph diffusion processes constructed from finite i.i.d. samples drawn from an unknown manifold embedded in ambient Euclidean space, where the graph affinity is defined by an ambient Gaussian kernel matrix. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xiuyuan Cheng , Nan Wu

Riemannian diffusion models draw inspiration from standard Euclidean space diffusion models to learn distributions on general manifolds. Unfortunately, the additional geometric complexity renders the diffusion transition term inexpressible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Aaron Lou , Minkai Xu , 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

Given two boundary distributions, the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem seeks the ``most likely`` random evolution between them with respect to a reference process. It has revealed rich connections to recent machine learning methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Maosheng Yang

Offline planning often struggles with poor sampling efficiency as it tries to learn policies from scratch. Especially with diffusion models, such cold start practices mean that both training and sampling become very expensive. We…

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