Nonparametric Schrödinger Bridge Time Series Generator: Algorithm, Convergence Analysis and Applications

Abstract

We conduct a convergence analysis for the Schrödinger Bridge Time Series (SBTS) data generator. Starting from a regularized formulation in which the data ensemble is mixed with a standard multivariate Gaussian distribution with a prescribed probability, we prove that the Euler-Maruyama discretization converges to the mixed target distribution with half-order convergence rate, provided that the ensemble size and kernel bandwidth are chosen appropriately. We further show that the regularized distribution converges to the original target distribution as the mixing probability tends to zero. The analysis simultaneously accounts for the ensemble approximation error, kernel approximation error, and time-discretization error, and therefore provides a full distributional convergence result for the SBTS generator. Empirically, we further examine the flexibility of the method by replacing the Wiener reference measure with the path measure induced by a more general SDE. The numerical experiments show that the schemes based on both the original Wiener reference measure and the SDE-induced reference measure achieve comparable performance, demonstrating the robustness and stability of the SBTS framework.

40 pages, 12 figures