Time-Correlated Video Bridge Matching

Abstract:Diffusion models excel in noise-to-data generation tasks, providing a mapping from a Gaussian distribution to a more complex data distribution. However, they struggle to model translations between complex distributions, limiting their effectiveness in data-to-data tasks. While Bridge Matching models address this by finding the translation between data distributions, their application to time-correlated data sequences remains unexplored. This is a critical limitation for video generation and manipulation tasks, where maintaining temporal coherence is particularly important. To address this gap, we propose Time-Correlated Video Bridge Matching (TCVBM), a framework that extends Bridge Matching to time-correlated data sequences in the video domain. TCVBM explicitly models inter-sequence dependencies within the diffusion bridge, directly incorporating temporal correlations into the sampling process. We compare our approach to classical methods based on bridge matching and diffusion models for three video-related tasks: frame interpolation, image-to-video generation, and video super-resolution. TCVBM achieves superior performance across multiple quantitative metrics, benchmark datasets and human evaluation.

Machine Learning (cs.LG)

arXiv:2510.12453 [cs.LG]

(or arXiv:2510.12453v3 [cs.LG] for this version)

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