因果薛定谔桥:结构流形上的约束最优传输 / Causal Schrödinger Bridges: Constrained Optimal Transport on Structural Manifolds
1️⃣ 一句话总结
这篇论文提出了一种名为‘因果薛定谔桥’的新方法,它利用扩散过程将因果推理中的反事实推断问题转化为一个鲁棒的最优传输问题,从而在处理数据分布发生剧烈变化的干预任务时,比传统的确定性模型更稳定、更准确。
Generative modeling typically seeks the path of least action via deterministic flows (ODE). While effective for in-distribution tasks, we argue that these deterministic paths become brittle under causal interventions, which often require transporting probability mass across low-density regions ("off-manifold") where the vector field is ill-defined. This leads to numerical instability and spurious correlations. In this work, we introduce the Causal Schrödinger Bridge (CSB), a framework that reformulates counterfactual inference as Entropic Optimal Transport. Unlike deterministic approaches that require strict invertibility, CSB leverages diffusion processes (SDEs) to robustly "tunnel" through support mismatches while strictly enforcing structural admissibility constraints. We prove the Structural Decomposition Theorem, showing that the global high-dimensional bridge factorizes into local, robust transitions. Empirical validation on high-dimensional interventions (Morpho-MNIST) demonstrates that CSB significantly outperforms deterministic baselines in structural consistency, particularly in regimes of strong, out-of-distribution treatments.
因果薛定谔桥:结构流形上的约束最优传输 / Causal Schrödinger Bridges: Constrained Optimal Transport on Structural Manifolds
这篇论文提出了一种名为‘因果薛定谔桥’的新方法,它利用扩散过程将因果推理中的反事实推断问题转化为一个鲁棒的最优传输问题,从而在处理数据分布发生剧烈变化的干预任务时,比传统的确定性模型更稳定、更准确。
源自 arXiv: 2602.08535