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Training modern neural networks is increasingly fragile, with rare but severe destabilizing updates often causing irreversible divergence or silent performance degradation. Existing optimization methods primarily rely on preventive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Barak Or

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning approach, where a network is trained to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

Many types of neural network layers rely on matrix properties such as invertibility or orthogonality. Retaining such properties during optimization with gradient-based stochastic optimizers is a challenging task, which is usually addressed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-02 Andreas Krämer , Jonas Köhler , Frank Noé

Many inverse problems can be described by a PDE model with unknown parameters that need to be calibrated based on measurements related to its solution. This can be seen as a constrained minimization problem where one wishes to minimize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Nick Schenkels , Wim Vanroose

The success of deep neural networks is mostly due their ability to learn meaningful features from the data. Features learned in the hidden layers of deep neural networks trained in computer vision tasks have been shown to be similar to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Biswajit Paria , Vikas Reddy , Anirban Santara , Pabitra Mitra

Accurate determination of the regularization parameter in inverse problems still represents an analytical challenge, owing mainly to the considerable difficulty to separate the unknown noise from the signal. We present a new approach for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Eitan Levin , Alexander Y. Meltzer

We introduce a general framework for analyzing learning algorithms based on the notion of self-regularization, which captures implicit complexity control without requiring explicit regularization. This is motivated by previous observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Max Schölpple , Liu Fanghui , Ingo Steinwart

We develop a machine-learning framework to learn hyperparameter sequences for accelerated first-order methods (e.g., the step size and momentum sequences in accelerated gradient descent) to quickly solve parametric convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Rajiv Sambharya , Jinho Bok , Nikolai Matni , George Pappas

Standard regularization methods that are used to compute solutions to ill-posed inverse problems require knowledge of the forward model. In many real-life applications, the forward model is not known, but training data is readily available.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

We investigate the effect of explicitly enforcing the Lipschitz continuity of neural networks with respect to their inputs. To this end, we provide a simple technique for computing an upper bound to the Lipschitz constant---for multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Henry Gouk , Eibe Frank , Bernhard Pfahringer , Michael J. Cree

The standard approach for dealing with the ill-posedness of the training problem in machine learning and/or the reconstruction of a signal from a limited number of measurements is regularization. The method is applicable whenever the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Michael Unser

We develop a new method for regularising neural networks. We learn a probability distribution over the activations of all layers of the model and then insert imputed values into the network during training. We obtain a posterior for an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Matthew Willetts , Alexander Camuto , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Learning solution operators for differential equations with neural networks has shown great potential in scientific computing, but ensuring their stability under input perturbations remains a critical challenge. This paper presents a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chutian Huang , Chang Ma , Kaibo Wang , Yang Xiang

We present a novel regularization approach to train neural networks that enjoys better generalization and test error than standard stochastic gradient descent. Our approach is based on the principles of cross-validation, where a validation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

Recent advances in domain adaptation show that deep self-training presents a powerful means for unsupervised domain adaptation. These methods often involve an iterative process of predicting on target domain and then taking the confident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yang Zou , Zhiding Yu , Xiaofeng Liu , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar , Jinsong Wang

Conditional stability estimates are a popular tool for the regularization of ill-posed problems. A drawback in particular under nonlinear operators is that additional regularization is needed for obtaining stable approximate solutions if…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Daniel Gerth , Bernd Hofmann , Christopher Hofmann

Training deep neural networks is known to require a large number of training samples. However, in many applications only few training samples are available. In this work, we tackle the issue of training neural networks for classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Soufiane Belharbi , Clément Chatelain , Romain Hérault , Sébastien Adam

When solving rank-deficient or discrete ill-posed problems by regularization methods, the choice of the regularization parameter is crucial. It is also of interest, the regularization norm used in the selection of the solution. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Ibrahima Dione

During the inversion of discrete linear systems noise in data can be amplified and result in meaningless solutions. To combat this effect, characteristics of solutions that are considered desirable are mathematically implemented during…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Michael J. Byrne , Rosemary A. Renaut

Despite recent advances in regularisation theory, the issue of parameter selection still remains a challenge for most applications. In a recent work the framework of statistical learning was used to approximate the optimal Tikhonov…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-30 Ernesto de Vito , Zeljko Kereta , Valeria Naumova