arXiv:2606. 04265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Schr\"odinger Bridge Problem constructs a stochastic process that connects an initial distribution to a terminal distribution with minimum energy.
By Daisuke Inoue, Mathieu Lauri\`ere, Dante Kalise
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
The paper introduces a mesh‑free, self‑supervised neural operator—called the Normalizing Flow Invertible Solution Transformer (NFIST)—for stochastic mean‑field control (MFC). By reformulating the controlled Fokker–Planck dynamics as a deterministic continuity equation via a probability‑flow ODE and an invertible normalizing‑flow transformer, the authors enable closed‑form score evaluation with linear cost per particle. The resulting operator learns from task prompts (distribution parameters or particle clouds) and can solve unseen MFC tasks in a single forward pass, achieving zero‑shot generalization across applications such as stochastic optimal control, Schrödinger bridges, systemic‑risk control, and obstacle‑avoiding path planning.
By Suyi Gao, Mo Zhou, Rongjie Lai
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:2509.26364v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The Schr\"odinger bridge problem is concerned with finding a stochastic dynamical system bridging two marginal distributions that minimises a certa...
By Kirill Tamogashev, Esmeralda S. Whitammer
arXiv:2607. 23026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mean-field games (MFGs) offer a unifying lens on continuous-time generative modeling: a cost tuple recovering twelve prominent models---Continuous Normalizing Flows, OT-Flow, Score-based Models, Schr\"{o}dinger Bridges, and more---as special cases of one variational problem.
By Kun Zhao, Xu Chen