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Despite a variety of available techniques the issue of the proper regularization parameter choice for inverse problems still remains one of the biggest challenges. The main difficulty lies in constructing a rule, allowing to compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Ernesto De Vito , Massimo Fornasier , Valeriya Naumova

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) techniques deal with the problem of deducing a reward function that explains the behavior of an expert agent who is assumed to act optimally in an underlying unknown task. In several problems of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Riccardo Poiani , Gabriele Curti , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

We consider machine learning techniques to develop low-latency approximate solutions to a class of inverse problems. More precisely, we use a probabilistic approach for the problem of recovering sparse stochastic signals that are members of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Steffen Limmer , Sławomir Stańczak

Optimization in machine learning typically deals with the minimization of empirical objectives defined by training data. However, the ultimate goal of learning is to minimize the error on future data (test error), for which the training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Bernhard Stankewitz , Nicole Mücke , Lorenzo Rosasco

Linear regression without correspondences concerns the recovery of a signal in the linear regression setting, where the correspondences between the observations and the linear functionals are unknown. The associated maximum likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Liangzu Peng , Manolis C. Tsakiris

In this paper we investigate the connection between supervised learning and linear inverse problems. We first show that a linear inverse problem can be view as a function approximation problem in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Sabrina Guastavino , Federico Benvenuto

This paper considers the linear inverse problem where we wish to estimate a structured signal $x$ from its corrupted observations. When the problem is ill-posed, it is natural to make use of a convex function $f(\cdot)$ that exploits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Samet Oymak , Christos Thrampoulidis , Babak Hassibi

In this work, we investigate the regularized solutions and their finite element solutions to the inverse source problems governed by partial differential equations, and establish the stochastic convergence and optimal finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhiming Chen , Wenlong Zhang , Jun Zou

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

Factor analysis, a classical multivariate statistical technique is popularly used as a fundamental tool for dimensionality reduction in statistics, econometrics and data science. Estimation is often carried out via the Maximum Likelihood…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Koulik Khamaru , Rahul Mazumder

We consider a statistical inverse learning problem, where the task is to estimate a function $f$ based on noisy point evaluations of $Af$, where $A$ is a linear operator. The function $Af$ is evaluated at i.i.d. random design points $u_n$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Tatiana A. Bubba , Martin Burger , Tapio Helin , Luca Ratti

Fitting linear regression models can be computationally very expensive in large-scale data analysis tasks if the sample size and the number of variables are very large. Random projections are extensively used as a dimension reduction tool…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Gian-Andrea Thanei , Christina Heinze , Nicolai Meinshausen

In experimental design, we are given a large collection of vectors, each with a hidden response value that we assume derives from an underlying linear model, and we wish to pick a small subset of the vectors such that querying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Michał Dereziński , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Michael W. Mahoney , Manfred K. Warmuth

In this paper, we develop a randomized algorithm and theory for learning a sparse model from large-scale and high-dimensional data, which is usually formulated as an empirical risk minimization problem with a sparsity-inducing regularizer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

There is a growing demand for efficient data removal to comply with regulations like the GDPR and to mitigate the influence of biased or corrupted data. This has motivated the field of machine unlearning, which aims to eliminate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-08 Jingyi Xie , Linjun Zhang , Sai Li

These lecture notes evolve around mathematical concepts arising in inverse problems. We start by introducing inverse problems through examples such as differentiation, deconvolution, computed tomography and phase retrieval. This then leads…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Danielle Bednarski , Tim Roith

We propose a novel sparse sliced inverse regression method based on random projections in a large $p$ small $n$ setting. Embedded in a generalized eigenvalue framework, the proposed approach finally reduces to parallel execution of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-04 Jia Zhang , Runxiong Wu , Xin Chen

Standard regularization methods that are used to compute solutions to ill-posed inverse problems require knowledge of the forward model. In many real-life applications, the forward model is not known, but training data is readily available.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

Supervised convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used to solve imaging inverse problems, achieving state-of-the-art performance in numerous applications. However, despite their empirical success, these methods are poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Minh Hai Nguyen , Quoc Bao Do , Edouard Pauwels , Pierre Weiss

The gloabal objective of inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is to estimate the unknown cost function of some MDP base on observed trajectories generated by (approximate) optimal policies. The classical approach consists in tuning this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Firas Jarboui , Vianney Perchet