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A fairly reliable trend in deep reinforcement learning is that the performance scales with the number of parameters, provided a complimentary scaling in amount of training data. As the appetite for large models increases, it is imperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Bogdan Mazoure , Walter Talbott , Miguel Angel Bautista , Devon Hjelm , Alexander Toshev , Josh Susskind

Controlling the evolution of a many-body stochastic system from a disordered reference state to a structured target ensemble, characterized empirically through samples, arises naturally in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-10 Haiqian Yang , Vishaal Krishnan , Sumit Sinha , L. Mahadevan

In this paper, we consider a modified version of the control problem in a model free Markov decision process (MDP) setting with large state and action spaces. The control problem most commonly addressed in the contemporary literature is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Ajin George Joseph , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Motion generation in cluttered, dense, and dynamic environments is a central topic in robotics, rendered as a multi-objective decision-making problem. Current approaches trade-off between safety and performance. On the one hand, reactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kay Hansel , Julen Urain , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Flow-based generative models provide strong unconditional priors for inverse problems, but guiding their dynamics for conditional generation remains challenging. Recent work casts training-free conditional generation in flow models as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 George Webber , Alexander Denker , Riccardo Barbano , Andrew J Reader

Temporal point processes have been widely applied to model event sequence data generated by online users. In this paper, we consider the problem of how to design the optimal control policy for point processes, such that the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Yichen Wang , Grady Williams , Evangelos Theodorou , Le Song

Imitation learning with diffusion models has advanced robotic control by capturing the multi-modal action distributions. However, existing methods typically treat observations only as high-level conditions to the denoising network, rather…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhaoyang Liu , Mokai Pan , Zhongyi Wang , Kaizhen Zhu , Haotao Lu , Haipeng Zhang , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

This paper proposes a supervised training algorithm for learning stochastic resource allocation policies with generative diffusion models (GDMs). We formulate the allocation problem as the maximization of an ergodic utility function subject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yigit Berkay Uslu , Samar Hadou , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Alejandro Ribeiro

Generative Adversarial Networks have been shown to be powerful in generating content. To this end, they have been studied intensively in the last few years. Nonetheless, training these networks requires solving a saddle point problem that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jingrong Lin , Keegan Lensink , Eldad Haber

The Double Linear Policy (DLP) framework guarantees a Robust Positive Expectation (RPE) under optimized constant-weight designs or admissible prespecified time-varying policies. However, the sequential optimization of these time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Tan Chin Hong , Chung-Han Hsieh

Transportation occupies one-third of the amount in the logistics costs, and accordingly transportation systems largely influence the performance of the logistics system. This work presents an adaptive data-driven innovative modular approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Emir Zunic , Dzenana Donko , Emir Buza

We present a novel simulation-free framework for training continuous-time diffusion processes over very general objective functions. Existing methods typically involve either prescribing the optimal diffusion process -- which only works for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mengjian Hua , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Ricky T. Q. Chen

Sampling from diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) can be viewed as a piecewise distribution transformation, which generally requires hundreds or thousands of steps of the inverse diffusion trajectory to get a high-quality image. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zezeng Li , ShengHao Li , Zhanpeng Wang , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Xianfeng Gu

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

Diffusion models often yield highly curved trajectories and noisy score targets due to an uninformative, memoryless forward process that induces independent data-noise coupling. We propose Adjoint Schr\"odinger Bridge Matching (ASBM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jeongwoo Shin , Jinhwan Sul , Joonseok Lee , Jaewong Choi , Jaemoo Choi

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique for studying microscopic phenomena, but its computational cost has driven significant interest in the development of deep learning-based surrogate models. We introduce generative modeling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Bowen Jing , Hannes Stärk , Tommi Jaakkola , Bonnie Berger

We establish a connection between stochastic optimal control and generative models based on stochastic differential equations (SDEs), such as recently developed diffusion probabilistic models. In particular, we derive a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Julius Berner , Lorenz Richter , Karen Ullrich

We introduce Action-Inspired Generative Models (AGMs), a dual-network generative framework motivated by the observation that existing bridge-matching methods assign uniform regression weight to every stochastic transition in the transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Eshwar R. A. , Debnath Pal

We introduce a continuous-time generative modeling framework, motivated by the Chow-Rashevskii theorem, that builds expressive flows from a small set of fixed vector fields and learned scalar controls. Instead of learning an unconstrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Peyman Morteza

Flow-matching-based policies have recently emerged as a promising approach for learning-based robot manipulation, offering significant acceleration in action sampling compared to diffusion-based policies. However, conventional flow-matching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuanran Zhai , Qianyou Zhao , Qiaojun Yu , Ce Hao