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During the past few years, inverse problem formulations of ultrasound beamforming have attracted a growing interest. They usually pose beamforming as a minimization problem of a fidelity term resulting from the measurement model plus a…

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Ultra-low-dose CT (ULDCT) imaging can greatly reduce patient radiation exposure, but the resulting scans suffer from severe structured and random noise that degrades image quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Plug-and-Play…

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Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has considerably advanced over the past decade. At the same time, state-of-the-art RL algorithms require a large computational budget in terms of training time to converge. Recent work has started to…

Despite the large success of deep neural networks (DNN) in recent years, most neural networks still lack mathematical guarantees in terms of stability. For instance, DNNs are vulnerable to small or even imperceptible input perturbations, so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Leon Bungert , René Raab , Tim Roith , Leo Schwinn , Daniel Tenbrinck

Posterior sampling has been shown to be a powerful Bayesian approach for solving imaging inverse problems. The recent plug-and-play unadjusted Langevin algorithm (PnP-ULA) has emerged as a promising method for Monte Carlo sampling and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-13 Marien Renaud , Jiaming Liu , Valentin de Bortoli , Andrés Almansa , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The problem of adversarial examples has shown that modern Neural Network (NN) models could be rather fragile. Among the more established techniques to solve the problem, one is to require the model to be {\it $\epsilon$-adversarially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yuxin Wen , Shuai Li , Kui Jia

Consistency models (CMs) learn a consistent mapping from multiple noise levels to the data endpoint and can therefore perform generative inference in one or a few steps. This property makes them attractive as learned priors for low-latency…

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We consider the problem of learning stable matchings with unknown preferences in a decentralized and uncoordinated manner, where "decentralized" means that players make decisions individually without the influence of a central platform, and…

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We propose the Distance-informed Neural Process (DNP), a novel variant of Neural Processes that improves uncertainty estimation by combining global and distance-aware local latent structures. Standard Neural Processes (NPs) often rely on a…

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The spatial resolution of images of living samples obtained by fluorescence microscopes is physically limited due to the diffraction of visible light, which makes the study of entities of size less than the diffraction barrier (around 200…

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Physics Informed Neural Networks is a numerical method which uses neural networks to approximate solutions of partial differential equations. It has received a lot of attention and is currently used in numerous physical and engineering…

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In Reinforcement Learning (RL), regularization has emerged as a popular tool both in theory and practice, typically based either on an entropy bonus or a Kullback-Leibler divergence that constrains successive policies. In practice, these…

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The recent application of deep learning (DL) to various tasks has seen the performance of classical techniques surpassed by their DL-based counterparts. As a result, DL has equally seen application in the removal of noise from images. In…

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Polynomial regression is a recurrent problem with a large number of applications. In computer vision it often appears in motion analysis. Whatever the application, standard methods for regression of polynomial models tend to deliver biased…

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Interpretation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training as an optimal control problem with nonlinear dynamical systems has received considerable attention recently, yet the algorithmic development remains relatively limited. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The strength of machine learning models stems from their ability to learn complex function approximations from data; however, this strength also makes training deep neural networks challenging. Notably, the complex models tend to memorize…

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We introduce a novel energy formulation for Plug- and-Play (PnP) image recovery. Traditional PnP methods that use a convolutional neural network (CNN) do not have an energy based formulation. The primary focus of this work is to introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Jyothi Rikabh Chand , Mathews Jacob

Hyperspectral anomaly detection refers to identifying pixels in the hyperspectral images that have spectral characteristics significantly different from the background. In this paper, we introduce a novel model that represents the…

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We introduce Blind Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models (Blind-PnPDM) as a novel framework for solving blind inverse problems where both the target image and the measurement operator are unknown. Unlike conventional methods that rely on explicit…

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