English
Related papers

Related papers: Foundations of Schr\"odinger Bridges for Generativ…

200 papers

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

Bridge models in image restoration construct a diffusion process from degraded to clear images. However, existing methods typically require training a bridge model from scratch for each specific type of degradation, resulting in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanting Wang , Tao Jin , Wang Lin , Shulei Wang , Hai Huang , Shengpeng Ji , Zhou Zhao

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

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Michele Mascherpa , Victor Molnö , Carsten Skovmose Kallesøe , Johan Karlsson

Optimal transport (OT) and Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) problems have emerged as powerful frameworks for transferring probability distributions with minimal cost. However, existing approaches typically focus on endpoint matching while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen

We investigate the martingale Schr\"odinger bridge, recently introduced by Nutz and Wiesel as a distinguished martingale transport plan between two probability measures in convex order. We show that this construction extends naturally to…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Julio Backhoff , Mathias Beiglböck , Giorgia Bifronte , Armand Ley

Recently, diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech enhancement tasks. However, these methods still encounter challenges, including the lack of structural information and poor performance in low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Siyi Wang , Siyi Liu , Andrew Harper , Paul Kendrick , Mathieu Salzmann , Milos Cernak

The Quantum Schr\"odinger Bridge Problem (QSBP) describes the evolution of a stochastic process between two arbitrary probability distributions, where the dynamics are governed by the Schr\"odinger equation rather than by the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mykola Bordyuh , Djork-Arné Clevert , Marco Bertolini

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

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

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

We present Fractional Diffusion Bridge Models (FDBM), a novel generative diffusion bridge framework driven by an approximation of the rich and non-Markovian fractional Brownian motion (fBM). Real stochastic processes exhibit a degree of…

Financial time series forecasting is particularly challenging for transformer-based time series foundation models (TSFMs) due to non-stationarity, heavy-tailed distributions, and high-frequency noise present in data. Low-rank adaptation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Anthony Bolton , Wuyang Zhou , Zehua Chen , Giorgos Iacovides , Danilo Mandic

We consider transport over a strongly connected, directed graph. The scheduling amounts to selecting transition probabilities for a discrete-time Markov evolution which is designed to be consistent with certain initial and final marginals.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon , Allen Tannenbaum

Existing diffusion-based 3D shape completion methods typically use a conditional paradigm, injecting incomplete shape information into the denoising network via deep feature interactions (e.g., concatenation, cross-attention) to guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Dequan Kong , Honghua Chen , Zhe Zhu , Mingqiang Wei

Stochastically evolving geometric systems are studied in shape analysis and computational anatomy for modelling random evolutions of human organ shapes. The notion of geodesic paths between shapes is central to shape analysis and has a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Alexis Arnaudon , Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer , Stefan Sommer

This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models and diffusion bridges primarily focus on finite-dimensional spaces, yet many real-world problems necessitate operations in infinite-dimensional function spaces for more natural and interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Byoungwoo Park , Jungwon Choi , Sungbin Lim , Juho Lee

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