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We study nonparametric estimation of Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) drifts from i.i.d.\ data observed on a single time interval. Starting from the conditional-ratio form of the Schr\"odinger bridge time-series (SBTS) drift formula, we analyze a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Othmane Mazhar , Huyên Pham

The mean-field Schr\"odinger bridge (MFSB) problem concerns designing a minimum-effort controller that guides a diffusion process with nonlocal interaction to reach a given distribution from another by a fixed deadline. Unlike the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Asmaa Eldesoukey , Yongxin Chen , Abhishek Halder

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

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

This paper aims to unify Score-based Generative Models (SGMs), also known as Diffusion models, and the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem through three reparameterization techniques: Iterative Proportional Mean-Matching (IPMM), Iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhicong Tang , Tiankai Hang , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

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

Resampling from a target measure whose density is unknown is a fundamental problem in mathematical statistics and machine learning. A setting that dominates the machine learning literature consists of learning a map from an easy-to-sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Leticia Mattos Da Silva , Silvia Sellán , Francisco Vargas , Justin Solomon

In recent advancements in proton therapy, MR-based treatment planning is gaining momentum to minimize additional radiation exposure compared to traditional CT-based methods. This transition highlights the critical need for accurate MR-to-CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Muheng Li , Xia Li , Sairos Safai , Damien Weber , Antony Lomax , Ye Zhang

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

The classical Schrodinger bridge seeks the most likely probability law for a diffusion process, in path space, that matches marginals at two end points in time; the likelihood is quantified by the relative entropy between the sought law and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

Understanding the continuous evolution of populations from discrete temporal snapshots is a critical research challenge, particularly in fields like developmental biology and systems medicine where longitudinal tracking of individual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Byoungwoo Park , Juho Lee

Entropic optimal transport problems are regularized versions of optimal transport problems. These models play an increasingly important role in machine learning and generative modelling. For finite spaces, these problems are commonly solved…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Pierre Del Moral , Joaquín Miguez

We consider the problem of sampling transition paths between two given metastable states of a molecular system, e.g. a folded and unfolded protein or products and reactants of a chemical reaction. Due to the existence of high energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Lars Holdijk , Yuanqi Du , Ferry Hooft , Priyank Jaini , Bernd Ensing , Max Welling

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Adarsh Srivastava

The Schr\"{o}dinger bridge (SB) has evolved into a universal class of probabilistic generative models. In practice, however, estimated learning signals are innately uncertain, and the reliability promised by existing methods is often based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dong-Sig Han , Jaein Kim , Hee Bin Yoo , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Understanding complex systems by inferring trajectories from sparse sample snapshots is a fundamental challenge in a wide range of domains, e.g., single-cell biology, meteorology, and economics. Despite advancements in Bridge and Flow…

We show that the minimum effort control of colloidal self-assembly can be naturally formulated in the order-parameter space as a generalized Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem -- a class of fixed-horizon stochastic optimal control problems that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Iman Nodozi , Charlie Yan , Mira Khare , Abhishek Halder , Ali Mesbah

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

In quantum machine learning (QML), classical data are often encoded as quantum pure states and processed directly as quantum representations, motivating representation-level generative modeling that samples new quantum states from an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Jian Xu , Wei Chen , Shigui Li , Chao Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Delu Zeng , John Paisley , Qibin Zhao

Machine learning-based unfolding has enabled unbinned and high-dimensional differential cross section measurements. Two main approaches have emerged in this research area: one based on discriminative models and one based on generative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Sascha Diefenbacher , Guan-Horng Liu , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Weili Nie