Energy-oriented Diffusion Bridge for Image Restoration with Foundational Diffusion Models

ArXi:2604.10983v1 Announce Type: new Diffusion bridge models have shown great promise in image restoration by explicitly connecting clean and degraded image distributions. However, they often rely on complex and high-cost trajectories, which limit both sampling efficiency and final restoration quality. To address this, we propose an Energy-oriented diffusion Bridge (E-Bridge) framework to approximate a set of low-cost manifold geodesic trajectories to boost the performance of the proposed method.