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This paper addresses explainability of the operator-regularization approach under the use of monotone Lipschitz-gradient (MoL-Grad) denoiser -- an operator that can be expressed as the Lipschitz continuous gradient of a differentiable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Masahiro Yukawa , Isao Yamada

Stability and robustness are critical for deploying Transformers in safety-sensitive settings. A principled way to enforce such behavior is to constrain the model's Lipschitz constant. However, approximation-theoretic guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Takashi Furuya , Davide Murari , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The main purpose of this work is to study uniform regularity estimates for a family of elliptic operators $\{\mathcal{L}_\varepsilon, \varepsilon>0\}$, arising in the theory of homogenization, with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Carlos E. Kenig , Fanghua Lin , Zhongwei Shen

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has recently achieved empirical success for various applications in operations research and machine learning, owing partly to its regularization effect. Although connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Rui Gao , Xi Chen , Anton J. Kleywegt

Image restoration requires a careful balance between noise suppression and structure preservation. While first-order total variation (TV) regularization effectively preserves edges, it often introduces staircase artifacts, whereas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Liang Luo , Lei Zhang

We establish the local Lipschitz continuity and the higher differentiability of vector-valued local minimizers of a class of energy integrals of the Calculus of Variations. The main novelty is that we deal with possibly degenerate energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Giovanni Cupini , Paolo Marcellini , Elvira Mascolo , A. Passarelli di Napoli

We initiate a program of average smoothness analysis for efficiently learning real-valued functions on metric spaces. Rather than using the Lipschitz constant as the regularizer, we define a local slope at each point and gauge the function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Yair Ashlagi , Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Aryeh Kontorovich

It was already known that a p-adic, locally Lipschitz continuous semi-algebraic function is piecewise Lipschitz continuous, where the pieces can be taken semi-algebraic. We prove that if the function has locally Lipschitz constant 1, then…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-10-01 Raf Cluckers , Immanuel Halupczok

We study the regularity of minimizers of a two-phase energy functional in periodic media. Our main result is a large scale Lipschitz estimate. We also establish improvement-of-flatness for non-degenerate minimizers, which is a key…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Farhan Abedin , William M Feldman

In a series of papers, including the present one, we give a new, shorter proof of Almgren's partial regularity theorem for area minimizing currents in a Riemannian manifold, with a slight improvement on the regularity assumption for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Camillo De Lellis , Emanuele Spadaro

The Tikhonov-Phillips method is widely used for regularizing ill-posed inverse problems mainly due to the simplicity of its formulation as an optimization problem. The use of different penalizers in the functionals associated to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-23 Gisela L. Mazzieri , Ruben D. Spies , Karina G. Temperini

We prove that a (globally) subanalytic p-adic function which is locally Lipschitz continuous with some constant C is piecewise (globally on each piece) Lipschitz continuous with possibly some other constant, where the pieces can be taken…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-28 R. Cluckers , G. Comte , F. Loeser

Texture segmentation constitutes a standard image processing task, crucial to many applications. The present contribution focuses on the particular subset of scale-free textures and its originality resides in the combination of three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Nelly Pustelnik , Herwig Wendt , Patrice Abry , Nicolas Dobigeon

Total Variation (TV) based regularization has been widely applied in restoration problems due to its simple derivative filters based formulation and robust performance. While first order TV suffers from staircase effect, second order TV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Sanjay Viswanath , Muthuvel Arigovindan

We consider total variation minimization for manifold valued data. We propose a cyclic proximal point algorithm and a parallel proximal point algorithm to minimize TV functionals with $\ell^p$-type data terms in the manifold case. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Andreas Weinmann , Laurent Demaret , Martin Storath

Recently, mapping a signal/image into a low rank Hankel/Toeplitz matrix has become an emerging alternative to the traditional sparse regularization, due to its ability to alleviate the basis mismatch between the true support in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Jian-Feng Cai , Jae Kyu Choi , Jingyang Li , Ke Wei

We introduce and study a mathematical framework for a broad class of regularization functionals for ill-posed inverse problems: Regularization Graphs. Regularization graphs allow to construct functionals using as building blocks linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Kristian Bredies , Marcello Carioni , Martin Holler

Though Transformers have achieved promising results in many computer vision tasks, they tend to be over-confident in predictions, as the standard Dot Product Self-Attention (DPSA) can barely preserve distance for the unbounded input domain.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wenqian Ye , Yunsheng Ma , Xu Cao , Kun Tang

In this article, we introduce the notion of the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of set-valued mappings via integrable selections. We establish fundamental properties of this fractional integral, including convexity, boundedness, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Subhash Chandra , Syed Abbas

Total variation (TV) regularization is popular in image restoration and reconstruction due to its ability to preserve image edges. To date, most research activities on TV models concentrate on image restoration from blurry and noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Yunhai Xiao , Junfeng Yang