Diffusion bridge mixture transports, Schrödinger bridge problems and generative modeling

S Peluchetti - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2023 - jmlr.org
The dynamic Schrödinger bridge problem seeks a stochastic process that defines a
transport between two target probability measures, while optimally satisfying the criteria of …

An optimal control perspective on diffusion-based generative modeling

J Berner, L Richter, K Ullrich - arxiv preprint arxiv:2211.01364, 2022 - arxiv.org
We establish a connection between stochastic optimal control and generative models based
on stochastic differential equations (SDEs), such as recently developed diffusion …

Improved sampling via learned diffusions

L Richter, J Berner - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.01198, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recently, a series of papers proposed deep learning-based approaches to sample from
target distributions using controlled diffusion processes, being trained only on the …

Diffusion generative flow samplers: Improving learning signals through partial trajectory optimization

D Zhang, RTQ Chen, CH Liu, A Courville… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We tackle the problem of sampling from intractable high-dimensional density functions, a
fundamental task that often appears in machine learning and statistics. We extend recent …

Transport meets variational inference: Controlled monte carlo diffusions

F Vargas, S Padhy, D Blessing, N Nüsken - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Connecting optimal transport and variational inference, we present a principled and
systematic framework for sampling and generative modelling centred around divergences …

Blackout diffusion: generative diffusion models in discrete-state spaces

JE Santos, ZR Fox, N Lubbers… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Typical generative diffusion models rely on a Gaussian diffusion process for training the
backward transformations, which can then be used to generate samples from Gaussian …

Beyond ELBOs: A large-scale evaluation of variational methods for sampling

D Blessing, X Jia, J Esslinger, F Vargas… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Monte Carlo methods, Variational Inference, and their combinations play a pivotal role in
sampling from intractable probability distributions. However, current studies lack a unified …

DEFT: Efficient Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models by Learning the Generalised -transform

A Denker, F Vargas, S Padhy, K Didi… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Generative modelling paradigms based on denoising diffusion processes have emerged as
a leading candidate for conditional sampling in inverse problems. In many real-world …

Probabilistic Forecasting with Stochastic Interpolants and F\" ollmer Processes

Y Chen, M Goldstein, M Hua, MS Albergo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a framework for probabilistic forecasting of dynamical systems based on
generative modeling. Given observations of the system state over time, we formulate the …

Stochastic localization via iterative posterior sampling

L Grenioux, M Noble, M Gabrié, AO Durmus - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Building upon score-based learning, new interest in stochastic localization techniques has
recently emerged. In these models, one seeks to noise a sample from the data distribution …