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Normalizing flows can generate complex target distributions and thus show promise in many applications in Bayesian statistics as an alternative or complement to MCMC for sampling posteriors. Since no data set from the target posterior…

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Inverse problems arise in a variety of imaging applications including computed tomography, non-destructive testing, and remote sensing. The characteristic features of inverse problems are the non-uniqueness and instability of their…

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Physics-informed deep learning have recently emerged as an effective tool for leveraging both observational data and available physical laws. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and deep operator networks (DeepONets) are two such…

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Understanding the dimension dependency of computational complexity in high-dimensional sampling problem is a fundamental problem, both from a practical and theoretical perspective. Compared with samplers with unbiased stationary…

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The solution of inverse problems is of fundamental interest in medical and astronomical imaging, geophysics as well as engineering and life sciences. Recent advances were made by using methods from machine learning, in particular deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Moritz Piening , Fabian Altekrüger , Johannes Hertrich , Paul Hagemann , Andrea Walther , Gabriele Steidl

Bayesian inference with computationally expensive likelihood evaluations remains a significant challenge in many scientific domains. We propose normalizing flow regression (NFR), a novel offline inference method for approximating posterior…

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Machine Learning (ML) methods and tools have gained great success in many data, signal, image and video processing tasks, such as classification, clustering, object detection, semantic segmentation, language processing, Human-Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ali Mohammad-Djafari , Ning Chu , Li Wang , Liang Yu

We study the use of novel techniques arising in machine learning for inverse problems. Our approach replaces the complex forward model by a neural network, which is trained simultaneously in a one-shot sense when estimating the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Philipp A. Guth , Claudia Schillings , Simon Weissmann

We consider the statistical inverse problem of estimating a background flow field (e.g., of air or water) from the partial and noisy observation of a passive scalar (e.g., the concentration of a solute), a common experimental approach to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Jeff Borggaard , Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz , Justin A. Krometis

Inverse problems exist in many domains such as phase imaging, image processing, and computer vision. These problems are often solved with application-specific algorithms, even though their nature remains the same: mapping input image(s) to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Feng Wang , Alberto Eljarrat , Johannes Müller , Trond Henninen , Erni Rolf , Christoph Koch

In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based algorithm for solving ill-posed inverse problems. Regularized iterative algorithms have emerged as the standard approach to ill-posed inverse problems in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Kyong Hwan Jin , Michael T. McCann , Emmanuel Froustey , Michael Unser

We study sampling from posterior distributions with nonsmooth composite potentials, a setting in which proximal-based Langevin methods are theoretically appealing but in practice limited to simple functions with closed-form proximal…

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We propose to use techniques from Bayesian inference and deep neural networks to translate uncertainty in seismic imaging to uncertainty in tasks performed on the image, such as horizon tracking. Seismic imaging is an ill-posed inverse…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 Ali Siahkoohi , Gabrio Rizzuti , Felix J. Herrmann

Generative models based on flow matching have attracted significant attention for their simplicity and superior performance in high-resolution image synthesis. By leveraging the instantaneous change-of-variables formula, one can directly…

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Removing pixel-wise heterogeneous motion blur is challenging due to the ill-posed nature of the problem. The predominant solution is to estimate the blur kernel by adding a prior, but the extensive literature on the subject indicates the…

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Prior probability models are a fundamental component of many image processing problems, but density estimation is notoriously difficult for high-dimensional signals such as photographic images. Deep neural networks have provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Eero P. Simoncelli

This paper proposes a novel diffusion-based posterior sampling method within a plug-and-play (PnP) framework. Our approach constructs a probability transport from an easy-to-sample terminal distribution to the target posterior, using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Jinyuan Chang , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

Characterizing statistical properties of solutions of inverse problems is essential for decision making. Bayesian inversion offers a tractable framework for this purpose, but current approaches are computationally unfeasible for most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-18 Jonas Adler , Ozan Öktem

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently shown outstanding capabilities in modeling complex image distributions, making them expressive image priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems. However, most existing DM-based methods rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Zihui Wu , Yu Sun , Yifan Chen , Bingliang Zhang , Yisong Yue , Katherine L. Bouman

Recently, deep unfolding methods that guide the design of deep neural networks (DNNs) through iterative algorithms have received increasing attention in the field of inverse problems. Unlike general end-to-end DNNs, unfolding methods have…

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