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Direct Estimation of Schrödinger Bridge Time-Series Drifts: Finite-Sample, Asymptotic, and Adaptive Guarantees

2026-05-06 · Othmane Mazhar, Huyên Pham arxiv

We study nonparametric estimation of Schrödinger bridge (SB) drifts from i.i.d.\ data observed on a single time interval. Starting from the conditional-ratio form of the Schrödinger bridge time-series (SBTS) drift formula, we analyze a direct Nadaraya--Watson plug-in estimator built from kernelized numerator and denominator terms. Unlike recent SB analyses based on entropic-OT potentials, Sinkhorn iterations, or iterative bridge solvers, our approach works directly at the drift level and isolates \emph{statistical error} from optimization, approximation, and discretization error. Under Hölder regularity, a marginal-density floor, and bounded support, we prove a uniform non-asymptotic bound for admissible bandwidth pairs, a pointwise CLT under genuine undersmoothing, and an adaptive bandwidth selector satisfying an oracle inequality. We also prove a pivot-local minimax lower bound which, through an explicit uniform pivot, yields a global minimax lower bound under transparent compatibility conditions; hence the adaptive selector is minimax-rate optimal up to logarithmic factors. Synthetic experiments provide theorem-targeted diagnostics for finite-sample scaling, Gaussian approximation, and adaptive behavior.

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