arXiv AI

On the Equivalence of Stochastic Control and Path Space Formulations for Schr\"odinger Bridges over Compact Connected Lie Groups

arXiv AI
Sep 3

Schr\"odinger Bridges on Lie Group Manifolds for Probabilistic Intrinsic Generation

The paper introduces a probabilistic generative framework called Schr"odinger Bridges on Lie Group Manifolds, enabling direct modeling of non‑Euclidean data without flattening or coordinate inconsistencies. It develops two computational realizations—Wrapped‑Kernel Bridge Calibration for compact Abelian groups and Reciprocal Conditional‑Control Bridge Matching for compact non‑Abelian groups—while providing a modular error bound that separates various sources of approximation error. Experiments on protein, RNA torsions, SO(3), U(n), and protein conformational pathways demonstrate the method’s feasibility and consistency.

By Shizhe Zhang, Mingyang Zhao, Lei Ma
arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 27

Schr\"odinger Bridges over Kinetic Swarming Models

The paper studies finite‑horizon minimum‑energy steering of inertial swarms under stochastic disturbances, focusing on mean‑field models with Cucker–Smale alignment or Morse attraction–repulsion interactions. It formulates the problem as a Schr"odinger bridge, deriving nonlinear, time‑symmetric optimality systems and proposing nested fixed‑point schemes for numerical solution. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the optimal corrective drift can either exploit or counteract the natural interaction forces, depending on their alignment with the steering objective.

By Asmaa Eldesoukey, Md Zulfiqur Haider, Italo Napolitano, Yongxin Chen, Abhishek Halder
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Twisted Schr\"odinger Bridge Matching

arXiv:2607. 16987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past few years, diffusion-based Schr\"odinger bridge models have been proposed to approximate optimal transport dynamics between two prescribed boundary distributions, with successful applications to generative modeling.

By Maxence Noble, Marie Scheid, Yazid Janati, Eric Moulines, Alain Durmus
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Entropy-Controlled Flow Matching

arXiv:2602. 22265v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern vision generators transport a base distribution to data through time-indexed measures, implemented as deterministic flows (ODEs) or stochastic diffusions (SDEs).

By Chika Maduabuchi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Adjoint Matching through the Lens of the Stochastic Maximum Principle in Optimal Control

arXiv:2604. 08580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward fine-tuning of diffusion and flow models and sampling from tilted or Boltzmann distributions can both be formulated as stochastic optimal control (SOC) problems, where learning an optimal generative dynamics corresponds to optimizing a control under SDE constraints.

By Carles Domingo-Enrich, Jiequn Han
arXiv AI
Jul 10

Kime-Representation Formulations of Three Open Problems in the Foundations of Classical Mechanics: Uncertainty, Invariant Entropy, and Directional Degrees of Freedom

arXiv:2607. 07851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We give mathematically self-contained formulations, in the complex-time (kime) representation, of three open problems from the foundations of classical mechanics: (I) the extension of the classical entropic uncertainty principle to non-canonical variables and to multiple degrees of freedom; (II) the characterization of coordinate-invariant measures and entropies, i.

By Ivo D. Dinov
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Learning Manifold and It\^o Dynamics with Branched Neural Rough Differential Equations

arXiv:2606. 05272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural rough differential equations (NRDEs) stay accurate under irregular sampling while taking far fewer integration steps than standard neural differential equations, summarising a finely sampled driver by its log-signature and advancing the hidden state over coarse intervals using the log-ODE method.

By Luke Thompson, Dai Shi, Lequan Lin, Junbin Gao, Andi Han
arXiv AI
Jun 24

The Geometry Behind Diffusion and Flow Matching: Gradient Flows and Geodesics in Wasserstein Space

arXiv:2606. 24157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d$) of probability measures with finite second moment carries a natural geometry: the quadratic Wasserstein distance W_2 makes it a complete metric space and, following Otto, a (formal) Riemannian manifold whose geodesics are the optimal-transport interpolations.

By Yian Yao, Weiwei Zhang