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Schrödinger-Bass Bridge Barycenter Models for Measure-Valued Data

Ngoc-Hai Nguyen, Thuan Nguyen, Prakash Ishwar, Shuchin Aeron · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.29227 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

Abstract

Barycenter models, based on stochastic and deterministic optimal transport bridges between probability measures, have proven to be useful for supervised and unsupervised learning for (probability) measure-valued data. In this paper, we utilize the directional asymmetry and dual drift-diffusion control arising in the recently proposed Schrödinger-Bass Bridge (SBB) between two measures, and propose \textit{SBB-encoder}, \textit{SBB-decoder}, \textit{SBB-symmetric}, and \textit{SBB-Markovian} barycenter models. For each of these novel models, our first theoretical result establishes the existence of the SBB-barycenter under mild assumptions. Our second theoretical result characterizes the decoder SBB-barycenter of Gaussians where we show that for Gaussian input measures, the decoder formulation admits a Gaussian minimizer, reducing barycenter computation to a finite-dimensional optimization and yielding a compact algorithm. For general input measures, we derive a hybrid Wasserstein gradient particle descent scheme for all four formulations using the SBB dual representation. Finally, we utilize these algorithms for solving distributional-inverse/interpolation problems arising in the context of spatial images and single-cell RNA sequencing data, where we show that the SBB-decoder and Markovian barycenter allow us to interpolate between successive time points. Results show that our method outperforms existing barycenter models for measure interpolation and inference.

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Topics: Interpolation (computer graphics), Measure (data warehouse), Context (archaeology), Gradient descent, Algorithm, Computer science

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