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In representation learning (RL), how to make the learned representations easy to interpret and less overfitted to training data are two important but challenging issues. To address these problems, we study a new type of regulariza- tion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Pengtao Xie , Hongbao Zhang , Eric P. Xing

In inverse problems we aim to reconstruct some underlying signal of interest from potentially corrupted and often ill-posed measurements. Classical optimization-based techniques proceed by optimizing a data consistency metric together with…

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Regularizing neural networks is important for anticipating model behavior in regions of the data space that are not well represented. In this work, we propose a regularization technique for enforcing a level of smoothness in the mapping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ali Hasan , Haoming Yang , Yuting Ng , Vahid Tarokh

We construct custom regularization functions for use in supervised training of deep neural networks. Our technique is applicable when the ground-truth labels themselves exhibit internal structure; we derive a regularizer by learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Michael Maire , Gregory Shakhnarovich

The integration of algorithmic components into neural architectures has gained increased attention recently, as it allows training neural networks with new forms of supervision such as ordering constraints or silhouettes instead of using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Felix Petersen , Christian Borgelt , Hilde Kuehne , Oliver Deussen

The paper proposes a novel regularization procedure for machine learning. The proposed high-order regularization (HR) provides new insight into regularization, which is widely used to train a neural network that can be utilized to…

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The relaxation systems are an important subclass of the passive systems that arise naturally in applications. We exploit the fact that they have highly structured state-space realisations to derive analytical solutions to some simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Richard Pates , Carolina Bergeling , Anders Rantzer

This paper introduces a novel approach to learning sparsity-promoting regularizers for solving linear inverse problems. We develop a bilevel optimization framework to select an optimal synthesis operator, denoted as $B$, which regularizes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Giovanni S. Alberti , Ernesto De Vito , Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Luca Ratti , Matteo Santacesaria

Maintaining numerical stability in machine learning models is crucial for their reliability and performance. One approach to maintain stability of a network layer is to integrate the condition number of the weight matrix as a regularizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rossen Nenov , Daniel Haider , Peter Balazs

In this work, we investigate a neural network based solver for optimal control problems (without / with box constraint) for linear and semilinear second-order elliptic problems. It utilizes a coupled system derived from the first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Yongcheng Dai , Bangti Jin , Ramesh Sau , Zhi Zhou

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

Constrained optimization problems appear in a wide variety of challenging real-world problems, where constraints often capture the physics of the underlying system. Classic methods for solving these problems rely on iterative algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Meiyi Li , Soheil Kolouri , Javad Mohammadi

We address the issue of safe optimal path planning under parametric uncertainties using a novel regularizer that allows trading off optimality with safety. The proposed regularizer leverages the notion that collisions may be modeled as…

Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) has been receiving increasingly more attention thanks to its encouraging performance on a variety of control tasks. Yet, conventional regularization techniques in training neural networks (e.g., $L_2$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhuang Liu , Xuanlin Li , Bingyi Kang , Trevor Darrell

When designing controllers for large-scale systems, the architectural aspects of the controller such as the placement of actuators, sensors, and the communication links between them can no longer be taken as given. The task of designing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Nikolai Matni , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Data assisted reconstruction algorithms, incorporating trained neural networks, are a novel paradigm for solving inverse problems. One approach is to first apply a classical reconstruction method and then apply a neural network to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Yoeri E. Boink , Markus Haltmeier , Sean Holman , Johannes Schwab

A regularization algorithm using inexact function values and inexact derivatives is proposed and its evaluation complexity analyzed. This algorithm is applicable to unconstrained problems and to problems with inexpensive constraints (that…

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The graph matching problem is a significant special case of the Quadratic Assignment Problem, with extensive applications in pattern recognition, computer vision, protein alignments and related fields. As the problem is NP-hard, relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Rongxuan Li

Regularization plays a pivotal role in integrating prior information into inverse problems. While many deep learning methods have been proposed to solve inverse problems, determining where to apply regularization remains a crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Ke Chen , Chunmei Wang , Haizhao Yang

We study an iterative regularization method of optimal control problems with control constraints. The regularization method is based on generalized Bregman distances. We provide convergence results under a combination of a source condition…

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