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Uncertainty quantification is vital for decision-making and risk assessment in machine learning. Mean-variance regression models, which predict both a mean and residual noise for each data point, provide a simple approach to uncertainty…

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The performance of deep neural networks is strongly influenced by the training dataset setup. In particular, when attributes having a strong correlation with the target attribute are present, the trained model can provide unintended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sumyeong Ahn , Seongyoon Kim , Se-young Yun

A fruitful approach for solving signal deconvolution problems consists of resorting to a frame-based convex variational formulation. In this context, parallel proximal algorithms and related alternating direction methods of multipliers have…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Nelly Pustelnik , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Caroline Chaux

The total variation (TV) regularization has phenomenally boosted various variational models for image processing tasks. We propose to combine the backward diffusion process in the earlier literature of image enhancement with the TV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Congpei An , Hao-Ning Wu , Xiaoming Yuan

A common challenge in regression is that for many problems, the degrees of freedom required for a high-quality solution also allows for overfitting. Regularization is a class of strategies that seek to restrict the range of possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Colin Ponce , Ruipeng Li , Christina Mao , Panayot Vassilevski

This paper focuses on solving the multiplicative gamma denoising problem via a variation model. Variation-based regularization models have been extensively employed in a variety of inverse problem tasks in image processing. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shengkun Yang , Zhichang Guo , Jia Li , Fanghui Song , Wenjuan Yao

Bilevel optimization has gained prominence in various applications. In this study, we introduce a framework for solving bilevel optimization problems, where the variables in both the lower and upper levels are constrained on Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Akiko Takeda

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

The signal demixing problem seeks to separate a superposition of multiple signals into its constituent components. This paper studies a two-stage approach that first decompresses and subsequently deconvolves the noisy and undersampled…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhenan Fan , Halyun Jeong , Babhru Joshi , Michael P. Friedlander

We study the problem of learning-to-learn: inferring a learning algorithm that works well on tasks sampled from an unknown distribution. As class of algorithms we consider Stochastic Gradient Descent on the true risk regularized by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Giulia Denevi , Carlo Ciliberto , Riccardo Grazzi , Massimiliano Pontil

This paper introduces a Bayesian framework for image inversion by deriving a probabilistic counterpart to the regularization-by-denoising (RED) paradigm. It additionally implements a Monte Carlo algorithm specifically tailored for sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Elhadji C. Faye , Mame Diarra Fall , Nicolas Dobigeon

B-spline models are a powerful way to represent scientific data sets with a functional approximation. However, these models can suffer from spurious oscillations when the data to be approximated are not uniformly distributed. Model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-04 David Lenz , Raine Yeh , Vijay Mahadevan , Iulian Grindeanu , Tom Peterka

This paper develops a bias correction scheme for a multivariate normal model under a general parameterization. In the model, the mean vector and the covariance matrix share the same parameters. It includes many important regression models…

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In this paper we propose optimisation methods for variational regularisation problems based on discretising the inverse scale space flow with discrete gradient methods. Inverse scale space flow generalises gradient flows by incorporating a…

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This work proposes a learning-based statistical refinement method for improving the denoising results of a given denoiser without knowing the precise noise distribution or accessing clean images or calibration data. While there are many…

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In this article we continue our investigation of the iterative regularization method for optimization problems based on Bregman distances. The optimization problems are subject to pointwise inequality constraints in $L^2(\Omega)$. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Frank Pörner

Model regularization requires extensive manual tuning to balance complexity against overfitting. Cross-regularization resolves this tradeoff by directly adapting regularization parameters through validation gradients during training. The…

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Deep learning models, including modern systems like large language models, are well known to offer unreliable estimates of the uncertainty of their decisions. In order to improve the quality of the confidence levels, also known as…

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We consider a composite convex minimization problem associated with regularized empirical risk minimization, which often arises in machine learning. We propose two new stochastic gradient methods that are based on stochastic dual averaging…

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In video denoising, the adjacent frames often provide very useful information, but accurate alignment is needed before such information can be harnassed. In this work, we present a multi-alignment network, which generates multiple flow…

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