arXiv:2604. 06531v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 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.
By Asmaa Eldesoukey, Yongxin Chen, Abhishek Halder
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
The paper presents a variational learning framework that simultaneously infers non‑parametric interaction kernels and environmental or intra‑agent forces in collective dynamics. It extends existing methods to handle both interaction and environmental components, validating the approach on benchmark models such as synchronization, alignment, and attraction‑repulsion systems. A model‑selection procedure is also introduced to identify the best explanatory framework from trajectory data, enabling direct recovery of mechanistic interaction mechanisms.
By Nipuni de Silva, Ming Zhong, James M. Greene
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
arXiv:2607. 11005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops a model-free reinforcement learning framework for continuous--time extended mean field control problems, where both the dynamics and reward may depend on the joint distribution of states and controls.
By Ziheng Cheng, Xin Guo, Huy\^en Pham, Yufei Zhang
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