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Variational inference techniques based on inducing variables provide an elegant framework for scalable posterior estimation in Gaussian process (GP) models. Besides enabling scalability, one of their main advantages over sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-24 Simone Rossi , Markus Heinonen , Edwin V. Bonilla , Zheyang Shen , Maurizio Filippone

In this paper, we investigate combining blocking and collapsing -- two widely used strategies for improving the accuracy of Gibbs sampling -- in the context of probabilistic graphical models (PGMs). We show that combining them is not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Deepak Venugopal , Vibhav Gogate

Uncertainty quantification is crucial to inverse problems, as it could provide decision-makers with valuable information about the inversion results. For example, seismic inversion is a notoriously ill-posed inverse problem due to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-02 Muhammad Izzatullah , Tariq Alkhalifah , Juan Romero , Miguel Corrales , Nick Luiken , Matteo Ravasi

With the recent study of deep learning in scientific computation, the Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) method has drawn widespread attention for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Compared to traditional methods, PINNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuling Jiao , Di Li , Xiliang Lu , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

Score-based diffusion models demonstrate superior performance in generative tasks but encounter fundamental bottlenecks in inverse problems due to the analytical intractability of the time-dependent likelihood score. To bridge this gap, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Boyang Zhang , Zhiguo Wang , Ya-Feng Liu

In recent years Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in inverse imaging problems by replacing proximal operators with denoisers. Based on the proximal gradient method, some theoretical results of PnP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shuchang Zhang , Hongxia Wang

The utilisation of Plug-and-Play (PnP) priors in inverse problems has become increasingly prominent in recent years. This preference is based on the mathematical equivalence between the general proximal operator and the regularised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yanqi Cheng , Lipei Zhang , Zhenda Shen , Shujun Wang , Lequan Yu , Raymond H. Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

This paper introduces a new Plug-and-Play (PnP) alternating direction of multipliers (ADMM) scheme based on a recently proposed denoiser using the Schroedinger equation's solutions of quantum physics. The efficiency of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Sayantan Dutta , Adrian Basarab , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouamé

Bayesian inference with nested sampling requires a likelihood-restricted prior sampling method, which draws samples from the prior distribution that exceed a likelihood threshold. For high-dimensional problems, Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-13 Johannes Buchner

One of the fundamental tasks of science is to find explainable relationships between observed phenomena. One approach to this task that has received attention in recent years is based on probabilistic graphical modelling with sparsity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-16 Peter Orchard , Felix Agakov , Amos Storkey

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

In the field of inverse estimation for systems modeled by partial differential equations (PDEs), challenges arise when estimating high- (or even infinite-) dimensional parameters. Typically, the ill-posed nature of such problems…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yankun Hong , Harshit Bansal , Karen Veroy

Despite substantial progress in signal source separation, results for richly structured data continue to contain perceptible artifacts. In contrast, recent deep generative models can produce authentic samples in a variety of domains that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Vivek Jayaram , John Thickstun

The past few years have seen a surge of activity around integration of deep learning networks and optimization algorithms for solving inverse problems. Recent work on plug-and-play priors (PnP), regularization by denoising (RED), and deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Abdullah H. Al-Shabili , Xiaojian Xu , Ivan Selesnick , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Regularized optimization has been a classical approach to solving imaging inverse problems, where the regularization term enforces desirable properties of the unknown image. Recently, the integration of flow matching generative models into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ji Li , Chao Wang

Denoising diffusion models have driven significant progress in the field of Bayesian inverse problems. Recent approaches use pre-trained diffusion models as priors to solve a wide range of such problems, only leveraging inference-time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-06 Yazid Janati , Badr Moufad , Mehdi Abou El Qassime , Alain Durmus , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

Deep unfolding showed to be a very successful approach for accelerating and tuning classical signal processing algorithms. In this paper, we propose learned Gaussian-mixture AMP (L-GM-AMP) - a plug-and-play compressed sensing (CS) recovery…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-19 Osman Musa , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods are efficient iterative algorithms for solving ill-posed image inverse problems. PnP methods are obtained by using deep Gaussian denoisers instead of the proximal operator or the gradient-descent step within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Samuel Hurault , Ulugbek Kamilov , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

P-splines provide a flexible setting for modeling nonlinear model components based on a discretized penalty structure with a relatively simple computational backbone. Under a Bayesian inferential framework based on Markov chain Monte Carlo,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-03 Oswaldo Gressani , Paul H. C. Eilers

For image recovery problems, plug-and-play (PnP) methods have been developed that replace the proximal step in an optimization algorithm with a call to an application-specific denoiser, often implemented using a deep neural network.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Saurav K Shastri , Rizwan Ahmad , Christopher A Metzler , Philip Schniter