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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

We develop a quantitative contraction framework for Schrodinger and Sinkhorn bridges based on transportation-cost inequalities and Riccati matrix difference equations. Our approach combines logarithmic Sobolev and Talagrand-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pierre Del Moral

Motivated by recent developments in the calibration of stochastic volatility models (SVMs for short), we study continuous-time formulations of martingale optimal transport and martingale Schr\"odinger bridge problems. We establish duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Antonios Zitridis

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

The subject of this work has its roots in the so called Schroedginer Bridge Problem (SBP) which asks for the most likely distribution of Brownian particles in their passage between observed empirical marginal distributions at two distinct…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

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

In this study, we introduce a novel method for generating new synthetic samples that are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) from high-dimensional real-valued probability distributions, as defined implicitly by a set of Ground…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-09 Hamidreza Behjoo , Michael Chertkov

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

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 provides a principled framework for modeling stochastic processes between distributions; however, existing methods are limited by energy-conservation assumptions, which constrains the bridge's shape preventing it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Andrea Testa , Søren Hauberg , Tamim Asfour , Leonel Rozo

Diffusion models demonstrate remarkable capabilities in capturing complex data distributions and have achieved compelling results in many generative tasks. While they have recently been extended to dense prediction tasks such as depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haorui Ji , Taojun Lin , Hongdong Li

The dynamical formulation of the optimal transport can be extended through various choices of the underlying geometry (kinetic energy), and the regularization of density paths (potential energy). These combinations yield different…

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We propose a new framework for generative modeling based on a discrete-time stochastic control formulation of measure transport. Adapting classic results from control theory, we formulate our problem as a linear program whose dual variables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pablo Moreno-Muñoz , Adrian Müller , Gergely Neu

Lidar point cloud synthesis based on generative models offers a promising solution to augment deep learning pipelines, particularly when real-world data is scarce or lacks diversity. By enabling flexible object manipulation, this synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhengkang Xiang , Zizhao Li , Amir Khodabandeh , Kourosh Khoshelham

The Lambert problem originated in orbital mechanics. It concerns with determining the initial velocity for a boundary value problem involving the dynamical constraint due to gravitational potential with additional time horizon and endpoint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Alexis M. H. Teter , Iman Nodozi , Abhishek Halder

Image-to-image translation is an important and challenging problem in computer vision and image processing. Diffusion models (DM) have shown great potentials for high-quality image synthesis, and have gained competitive performance on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Bo Li , Kaitao Xue , Bin Liu , Yu-Kun Lai

The pseudopotential model within the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) framework has emerged as a prominent approach in computational fluid dynamics due to its dual strengths in physical intuitiveness and computational tractability. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yizhong Chen , Zhibin Wang

Diffusion bridge models establish probabilistic paths between arbitrary paired distributions and exhibit great potential for universal image restoration. Most existing methods merely treat them as simple variants of stochastic interpolants,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hebaixu Wang , Jing Zhang , Haoyang Chen , Haonan Guo , Di Wang , Jiayi Ma , Bo Du

We study the optimal control formulation for stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (SNLSE) on a finite graph. By viewing the SNLSE as a stochastic Wasserstein Hamiltonian flow on density manifold, we show the global existence of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

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