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Variational methods in imaging are nowadays developing towards a quite universal and flexible tool, allowing for highly successful approaches on tasks like denoising, deblurring, inpainting, segmentation, super-resolution, disparity, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Martin Burger , Alex Sawatzky , Gabriele Steidl

This paper addresses the task of learning convex regularizers to guide the reconstruction of images from limited data. By imposing that the reconstruction be amplitude-equivariant, we narrow down the class of admissible functionals to those…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-19 Michael Unser , Stanislas Ducotterd

This paper investigates a general regularization framework for unsupervised domain adaptation in vector-valued regression under the covariate shift assumption, utilizing vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (vRKHS). Covariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Markus Holzleitner , Sergiy Pereverzyev , Sergei V. Pereverzyev , Vaibhav Silmana , S. Sivananthan

Variational regularization techniques are dominant in the field of mathematical imaging. A drawback of these techniques is that they are dependent on a number of parameters which have to be set by the user. A by now common strategy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

Bilevel optimization is a central tool in machine learning for high-dimensional hyperparameter tuning. Its applications are vast; for instance, in imaging it can be used for learning data-adaptive regularizers and optimizing forward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Mohammad Sadegh Salehi , Subhadip Mukherjee , Lindon Roberts , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

In this work, we introduce a function space setting for a wide class of structural/weighted total variation (TV) regularization methods motivated by their applications in inverse problems. In particular, we consider a regularizer that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Michael Hintermüller , Martin Holler , Kostas Papafitsoros

Over the last 30 years a plethora of variational regularisation models for image reconstruction has been proposed and thoroughly inspected by the applied mathematics community. Among them, the pioneering prototype often taught and learned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Monica Pragliola , Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Fiorella Sgallari

We propose regularization schemes for deformable registration and efficient algorithms for their numerical approximation. We treat image registration as a variational optimal control problem. The deformation map is parametrized by its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Andreas Mang , George Biros

Bilevel programs are optimization problems where some variables are solutions to optimization problems themselves, and they arise in a variety of control applications, including: control of vehicle traffic networks, inverse reinforcement…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Aurélien Ouattara , Anil Aswani

Primal-dual splitting involving proximity operators in order to be able to find some approximation to the minimizer for a general form of Tikhonov type functional is in the focus of this work. This approximation is produced by a pair of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Erdem Altuntac

We consider the variational reconstruction framework for inverse problems and propose to learn a data-adaptive input-convex neural network (ICNN) as the regularization functional. The ICNN-based convex regularizer is trained adversarially…

How to extract more and useful information for single image super resolution is an imperative and difficult problem. Learning-based method is a representative method for such task. However, the results are not so stable as there may exist…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Hu Liang , Shengrong Zhao

We study the feature-based newsvendor problem, in which a decision-maker has access to historical data consisting of demand observations and exogenous features. In this setting, we investigate feature selection, aiming to derive sparse,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Breno Serrano , Stefan Minner , Maximilian Schiffer , Thibaut Vidal

Motivated by high-dimensional nonlinear optimization problems as well as ill-posed optimization problems arising in image processing, we consider a bilevel optimization model where we seek among the optimal solutions of the inner level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Harshal Kaushik , Farzad Yousefian

Regularization techniques are widely employed in optimization-based approaches for solving ill-posed inverse problems in data analysis and scientific computing. These methods are based on augmenting the objective with a penalty function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

We present a method for supervised learning of sparsity-promoting regularizers for denoising signals and images. Sparsity-promoting regularization is a key ingredient in solving modern signal reconstruction problems; however, the operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Avrajit Ghosh , Michael T. McCann , Madeline Mitchell , Saiprasad Ravishankar

This paper introduces a novel double regularization scheme for bilevel optimization problems whose lower-level problem is composite and convex, but not necessarily strongly convex, in the lower-level variable. The analysis focuses on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Mattia Solla , Johannes O. Royset

We introduce a novel regulariser based on the natural vector field operations gradient, divergence, curl and shear. For suitable choices of the weighting parameters contained in our model it generalises well-known first- and second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Eva-Maria Brinkmann , Martin Burger , Joana Sarah Grah

We extend a recently introduced deep unrolling framework for learning spatially varying regularisation parameters in inverse imaging problems to the case of Total Generalised Variation (TGV). The framework combines a deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Thanh Trung Vu , Andreas Kofler , Kostas Papafitsoros

This article addresses the challenge of learning effective regularizers for linear inverse problems. We analyze and compare several types of learned variational regularization against the theoretical benchmark of the optimal affine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Sebastian Banert , Christoph Brauer , Dirk Lorenz , Lionel Tondji