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We present a general variational framework for the training of freeform nonlinearities in layered computational architectures subject to some slope constraints. The regularization that we add to the traditional training loss penalizes the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-31 Michael Unser , Alexis Goujon , Stanislas Ducotterd

Variational regularization is commonly used to solve linear inverse problems, and involves augmenting a data fidelity by a regularizer. The regularizer is used to promote a priori information and is weighted by a regularization parameter.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Silvia Gazzola , Sebastian J. Scott

In this paper we propose a bilevel optimization approach for the placement of space and time observations in variational data assimilation problems. Within the framework of supervised learning, we consider a bilevel problem where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Paula Castro , Juan Carlos De los Reyes

We consider an unsupervised bilevel optimization strategy for learning regularization parameters in the context of imaging inverse problems in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise. Compared to supervised and semi-supervised metrics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Carlo Santambrogio , Monica Pragliola , Alessandro Lanza , Marco Donatelli , Luca Calatroni

This review discusses methods for learning parameters for image reconstruction problems using bilevel formulations. Image reconstruction typically involves optimizing a cost function to recover a vector of unknown variables that agrees with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Caroline Crockett , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Second-order optimality conditions are essential for nonsmooth optimization, where both the objective and constraint functions are Lipschitz continuous and second-order directionally differentiable. This paper provides no-gap second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Xiang Liu , Mengwei Xu , Liwei Zhang

Integrated learning and optimization (ILO) is a framework in contextual optimization which aims to train a predictive model for the probability distribution of the underlying problem data uncertainty, with the goal of enhancing the quality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yuan Tao , Huifu Xu

We propose a bilevel optimization strategy for selecting the best hyperparameter value for the nonsmooth $\ell_p$ regularizer with $0<p\le 1$. The concerned bilevel optimization problem has a nonsmooth, possibly nonconvex,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda , Akihiro Kawana , Motokazu Watanabe

In this paper, we study the regularity assumptions commonly adopted in bilevel optimization with constrained lower-level problems, including the linear independence constraint qualification, the strict complementary slackness condition, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Xiaotian Jiang , Chang He , Mingyi Hong , Shuzhong Zhang

Second-order optimality conditions of the bilevel programming problems are dependent on the second-order directional derivatives of the value functions or the solution mappings of the lower level problems under some regular conditions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Xiang Liu , Mengwei Xu , Liwei Zhang

We consider a bilevel optimisation approach for parameter learning in higher-order total variation image reconstruction models. Apart from the least squares cost functional, naturally used in bilevel learning, we propose and analyse an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 J. C. De los Reyes , C. -B. Schönlieb , T. Valkonen

We propose techniques for approximating bilevel optimization problems with non-smooth lower level problems that can have a non-unique solution. To this end, we substitute the expression of a minimizer of the lower level minimization problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Peter Ochs , René Ranftl , Thomas Brox , Thomas Pock

Bilevel optimization has been successfully applied to many important machine learning problems. Algorithms for solving bilevel optimization have been studied under various settings. In this paper, we study the nonconvex-strongly-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Xuxing Chen , Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma

We propose a nonsmooth trust-region method for solving optimization problems with locally Lipschitz continuous functions, with application to problems constrained by variational inequalities of the second kind. Under suitable assumptions on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Constantin Christof , Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Christian Meyer

In this paper we study an infinite-horizon persistent monitoring problem in a two-dimensional mission space containing a finite number of statically placed targets, at each of which we assume a constant rate of uncertainty accumulation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Jonas Hall , Logan E. Beaver , Christos G. Cassandras , Sean B. Andersson

Algorithms for automatically selecting a scalar or locally varying regularization parameter for total variation models with an $L^{\tau}$-data fidelity term, $\tau\in \{1,2\}$, are presented. The automated selection of the regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Andreas Langer

We consider bilevel linear problems, where the right-hand side of the lower level problems is stochastic. The leader has to decide in a here-and-now fashion, while the follower has complete information. In this setting, the leader's outcome…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Johanna Burtscheidt , Matthias Claus

In this work, we propose derivative-free framework for bilevel optimization. We consider both the upper and lower-level problems with bound constraints on the variables, as well as general nonlinear constraints, assuming that first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Edoardo Cesaroni , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Stefano Lucidi

We consider the bilevel optimisation approach proposed by De Los Reyes, Sch\"onlieb (2013) for learning the optimal parameters in a Total Variation (TV) denoising model featuring for multiple noise distributions. In applications, the use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Luca Calatroni , Juan Carlos De Los Reyes , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper we present a bilevel optimization scheme for the solution of a general image deblurring problem, in which a parametric variational-like approach is encapsulated within a machine learning scheme to provide a high quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Silvia Bonettini , Giorgia Franchini , Danilo Pezzi , Marco Prato