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In this paper we study an imitation and transfer learning setting for Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control, where (i) the system dynamics, noise statistics and cost function are unknown and expert data is provided (that is, sequences of…

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This paper considers linear-quadratic (LQ) stochastic leader-follower Stackelberg differential games for jump-diffusion systems with random coefficients. We first solve the LQ problem of the follower using the stochastic maximum principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Jun Moon

We consider the problem of sampling from an unknown distribution for which only a sufficiently large number of training samples are available. Such settings have recently drawn considerable interest in the context of generative modelling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-24 Georg A. Gottwald , Fengyi Li , Youssef Marzouk , Sebastian Reich

This paper studies indefinite stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control for jump-diffusion systems with random coefficients. We construct an algebraic inverse flow from the zero-control base system, extract the semimartingale kernel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Xinyu Ma , Qingxin Meng

Audio domain transfer is the process of modifying audio signals to match characteristics of a different domain, while retaining the original content. This paper investigates the potential of Gaussian Flow Bridges, an emerging approach in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Eloi Moliner , Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper

Deep generative models have recently been employed for speech enhancement to generate perceptually valid clean speech on large-scale datasets. Several diffusion models have been proposed, and more recently, a tractable Schr\"odinger Bridge…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Seungu Han , Sungho Lee , Juheon Lee , Kyogu Lee

Predicting the intermediate trajectories between an initial and target distribution is a central problem in generative modeling. Existing approaches, such as flow matching and Schr\"odinger bridge matching, effectively learn mappings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sophia Tang , Yinuo Zhang , Alexander Tong , Pranam Chatterjee

Recently path integral methods have been developed for stochastic optimal control for a wide class of models with non-linear dynamics in continuous space-time. Path integral methods find the control that minimizes the expected cost-to-go.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Bart van den Broek , Wim Wiegerinck , Hilbert Kappen

Consider a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem being solved in a model-free manner using the policy gradient approach. If the gradient of the quadratic cost is being transmitted across a rate-limited channel, both the convergence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Lintao Ye , Aritra Mitra , Vijay Gupta

Flow Matching (FM) (also referred to as stochastic interpolants or rectified flows) stands out as a class of generative models that aims to bridge in finite time the target distribution $\nu^\star$ with an auxiliary distribution $\mu$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Marta Gentiloni Silveri , Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus

We present a model-based globally convergent policy gradient method (PGM) for linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control. Firstly, we establish equivalence between optimizing dynamic output feedback controllers and designing a static feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Tomonori Sadamoto , Fumiya Nakamata

The diffusion bridge, which is a diffusion process conditioned on hitting a specific state within a finite period, has found broad applications in various scientific and engineering fields. However, simulating diffusion bridges for modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Gefan Yang , Elizabeth Louise Baker , Michael L. Severinsen , Christy Anna Hipsley , Stefan Sommer

In image generation, Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB)-based methods theoretically enhance the efficiency and quality compared to the diffusion models by finding the least costly path between two distributions. However, they are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xingyu Qiu , Mengying Yang , Xinghua Ma , Fanding Li , Dong Liang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Kuanquan Wang , Shuo Li

The purpose of this note is to clarify the importance of the relation $\boldsymbol{gg}^{\top}\propto \boldsymbol{\sigma\sigma}^{\top}$ in solving control-affine Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problems via the Hopf-Cole transform, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Alexis Teter , Abhishek Halder

We propose a novel neural algorithm for the fundamental problem of computing the entropic optimal transport (EOT) plan between continuous probability distributions which are accessible by samples. Our algorithm is based on the saddle point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Nikita Gushchin , Alexander Kolesov , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov , Evgeny Burnaev

To achieve high resolution imaging the standard control algorithm used for classical adaptive optics (AO) is the simple but efficient proportional-integral (PI) controller. The goal is to minimize the root mean square (RMS) error of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Qiang Fu , Jörg-Uwe Pott , Peter Dethard , Feng Shen , Changhui Rao , Xinyang Li

In this work we explore a new framework for approximate Bayesian inference in large datasets based on stochastic control (i.e. Schr\"odinger bridges). We advocate stochastic control as a finite time and low variance alternative to popular…

The paper studies the optimal density steering problem for nonlinear continuous-time stochastic systems. To accurately capture nonlinear dynamics in high-uncertainty regions that deviate significantly from a nominal linearization point, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Mattia Mosso , George Rapakoulias , Yue Guan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Many complex systems are described by Langevin-type equations in which the noise exhibits long-range correlations and couples to the system in a state-dependent, multiplicative manner, leading to heterogeneous non-Markovian diffusion. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 David Santiago Quevedo , Felipe Segundo Abril-Bermúdez , Cristiane Morais Smith

A Schr\"{o}dinger bridge establishes a dynamic transport map between two target distributions via a reference process, simultaneously solving an associated entropic optimal transport problem. We consider the setting where samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Stefano Peluchetti