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Total variation (TV) is a widely used function for regularizing imaging inverse problems that is particularly appropriate for images whose underlying structure is piecewise constant. TV regularized optimization problems are typically solved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Edward P. Chandler , Shirin Shoushtari , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Building on the well-known total-variation (TV), this paper develops a general regularization technique based on nonlinear isotropic diffusion (NID) for inverse problems with piecewise smooth solutions. The novelty of our approach is to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Bernadette N. Hahn , Gael Rigaud , Richard Schmähl

The l1/l2 ratio regularization function has shown good performance for retrieving sparse signals in a number of recent works, in the context of blind deconvolution. Indeed, it benefits from a scale invariance property much desirable in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Audrey Repetti , Mai Quyen Pham , Laurent Duval , Emilie Chouzenoux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

In this work, we introduce a function space setting for a wide class of structural/weighted total variation (TV) regularization methods motivated by their applications in inverse problems. In particular, we consider a regularizer that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Michael Hintermüller , Martin Holler , Kostas Papafitsoros

An optimization framework is presented for minimizing the energy functional developed around a generalized equation governing physical systems such as fluid dynamics, particle transport, phase transition, and other related systems. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-25 Varsha Gupta

The choice of the parameter value for regularized inverse problems is critical to the results and remains a topic of interest. This article explores a criterion for selecting a good parameter value by maximizing the probability of the data,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Toby Sanders , Rodrigo B. Platte , Robert D. Skeel

In this paper, we present a novel variational plug-and-play algorithm for Poisson inverse problems. Our approach minimizes an explicit functional which is the sum of a Kullback-Leibler data fidelity term and a regularization term based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Thibaut Modrzyk , Ane Etxebeste , Élie Bretin , Voichita Maxim

This paper studies the convergence of the mirror descent algorithm for finite horizon stochastic control problems with measure-valued control processes. The control objective involves a convex regularisation function, denoted as $h$, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Bekzhan Kerimkulov , David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch , Yufei Zhang

This paper introduces new solvers for the computation of low-rank approximate solutions to large-scale linear problems, with a particular focus on the regularization of linear inverse problems. Although Krylov methods incorporating explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Silvia Gazzola , Chang Meng , James Nagy

This paper addresses the inverse optimal control problem of finding the state weighting function that leads to a quadratic value function when the cost on the input is fixed to be quadratic. The paper focuses on a class of infinite horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Luis Rodrigues

Inverse optimal control, also known as inverse reinforcement learning, is the problem of recovering an unknown reward function in a Markov decision process from expert demonstrations of the optimal policy. We introduce a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Sergey Levine , Vladlen Koltun

The paper describes a continuous second-variation algorithm to solve optimal control problems where the control is defined on a closed set. A second order expansion of a Lagrangian provides linear updates of the control to construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Joris T. Olympio

We consider the problem of supervised learning with convex loss functions and propose a new form of iterative regularization based on the subgradient method. Unlike other regularization approaches, in iterative regularization no constraint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 Junhong Lin , Lorenzo Rosasco , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Regularization methods improve the stability of ill-posed inverse problems by introducing some a priori characteristics for the solution such as smoothness or sharpness. In this contribution, we propose a multidimensional, scale-dependent…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-01-27 Wouter Deleersnyder , Benjamin Maveau , David Dudal , Thomas Hermans

It's well-known that inverse problems are ill-posed and to solve them meaningfully one has to employ regularization methods. Traditionally, popular regularization methods have been the penalized Variational approaches. In recent years, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Abinash Nayak

One fundamental problem when solving inverse problems is how to find regularization parameters. This article considers solving this problem using data-driven bilevel optimization, i.e. we consider the adaptive learning of the regularization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Neil K. Chada , Claudia Schillings , Xin T. Tong , Simon Weissmann

We consider the inverse conductivity problem with discontinuous conductivities. We show in a rigorous way, by a convergence analysis, that one can construct a completely discrete minimization problem whose solution is a good approximation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Alessandro Felisi , Luca Rondi

In this paper we study the structure of solutions of the one dimensional weighted total variation regularisation problem, motivated by its application in signal recovery tasks. We study in depth the relationship between the weight function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Michael Hintermüller , Konstantinos Papafitsoros , Carlos N. Rautenberg

Parameter identification problems typically consist of a model equation, e.g. a (system of) ordinary or partial differential equation(s), and the observation equation. In the conventional reduced setting, the model equation is eliminated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Barbara Kaltenbacher

A novel class of semi-norms, generalising the notion of the isotropic total variation $TV_{2}$ and the an-isotropic total variation $TV_{1}$ is introduced. A supervised learning method via bilevel optimisation is proposed for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Pan Liu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb