Neural Bridge Processes
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arXiv:2508.07220v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning stochastic functions from partially observed context-target pairs requires models that are expressive, uncertainty-aware, and strongly conditioned on inputs. Neural Diffusion Processes (NDPs) improve expressivity with denoising diffusion, but their forward process is input-independent; inputs only enter the reverse denoiser, so the noisy training states themselves do not encode the conditioning inputs. We propose Neural Bridge Processes (NBPs), which replace the unconditional forward kernel with an input-anchored bridge traject
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2508.07220v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning stochastic functions from partially observed context-target pairs requires models that are expressive, uncertainty-aware, and strongly conditioned on inputs.
- Neural Diffusion Processes (NDPs) improve expressivity with denoising diffusion, but their forward process is input-independent; inputs only enter the reverse denoiser, so the noisy training states themselves do not encode the conditioning inputs.
- We propose Neural Bridge Processes (NBPs), which replace the unconditional forward kernel with an input-anchored bridge traject
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