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In dual decomposition, the dual to an optimization problem with a specific structure is solved in distributed fashion using (sub)gradient and recently also fast gradient methods. The traditional dual decomposition suffers from two main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pontus Giselsson

In Bayesian inverse problems, it is common to consider several hyperparameters that define the prior and the noise model that must be estimated from the data. In particular, we are interested in linear inverse problems with additive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Julianne Chung , Scot M. Miller , Malena Sabate Landman , Arvind K. Saibaba

Purpose: The Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA) in combination with diffusion models can generate high quality MRI reconstructions with uncertainty estimation from highly undersampled k-space data. However, sampling methods such as…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Moritz Blumenthal , Tina Holliber , Jonathan I. Tamir , Martin Uecker

Diffusion models can learn strong image priors from underlying data distribution and use them to solve inverse problems, but the training process is computationally expensive and requires lots of data. Such bottlenecks prevent most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jason Hu , Bowen Song , Xiaojian Xu , Liyue Shen , Jeffrey A. Fessler

With the rapid development of diffusion models and flow-based generative models, there has been a surge of interests in solving noisy linear inverse problems, e.g., super-resolution, deblurring, denoising, colorization, etc, with generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiangming Meng , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Diffusion models have recently shown considerable potential in solving Bayesian inverse problems when used as priors. However, sampling from the resulting denoising posterior distributions remains a challenge as it involves intractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Badr Moufad , Yazid Janati , Lisa Bedin , Alain Durmus , Randal Douc , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

Diffusion Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling inverse problems, offering high-quality posterior-sampling-based solutions. Despite significant advances, a fundamental trade-off persists regarding the way the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Noam Elata , Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

Recently it has been shown that using diffusion models for inverse problems can lead to remarkable results. However, these approaches require a closed-form expression of the degradation model and can not support complex degradations. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Di You , Andreas Floros , Pier Luigi Dragotti

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a severely ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem that seeks to estimate optical parameters from boundary measurements. In the Bayesian framework, the ill-posedness is diminished by incorporating {\em a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Anssi Manninen , Meghdoot Mozumder , Tanja Tarvainen , Andreas Hauptmann

Diffusion models have recently attained significant interest within the community owing to their strong performance as generative models. Furthermore, its application to inverse problems have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Jong Chul Ye

This work presents a mathematical model to enable rapid prediction of airborne contaminant transport based on scarce sensor measurements. The method is designed for applications in critical infrastructure protection (CIP), such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Marco Mattuschka , Daniel Walter , Max von Danwitz , Alexander Popp

We study a new family of inverse problems for recovering representations of corrupted data. We assume access to a pre-trained representation learning network R(x) that operates on clean images, like CLIP. The problem is to recover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sriram Ravula , Georgios Smyrnis , Matt Jordan , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

Diffusion models have been widely studied as effective generative tools for solving inverse problems. The main ideas focus on performing the reverse sampling process conditioned on noisy measurements, using well-established numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xiang Cao , Xiaoqun Zhang

Diffusion generative models unlock new possibilities for inverse problems as they allow for the incorporation of strong empirical priors in scientific inference. Recently, diffusion models are repurposed for solving inverse problems using…

Recent advances in generative models, especially diffusion models, have significantly improved image restoration (IR) performance. However, existing problem-agnostic diffusion model-based image restoration (DMIR) methods face challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Chenxu Wu , Qingpeng Kong , Peiang Zhao , Wendi Yang , Wenxin Ma , Fenghe Tang , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Signal reconstruction is a challenging aspect of computational imaging as it often involves solving ill-posed inverse problems. Recently, deep feed-forward neural networks have led to state-of-the-art results in solving various inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Akshat Dave , Anil Kumar Vadathya , Ramana Subramanyam , Rahul Baburajan , Kaushik Mitra

Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimation is a cornerstone framework for blind inverse problems, where an image and a forward operator are jointly estimated as the maximizers of a posterior distribution. In this paper, we analyze the recovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minh-Hai Nguyen , Edouard Pauwels , Pierre Weiss

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation and editing tasks. Inversion within these models aims to recover the latent noise representation for a real or generated image, enabling reconstruction, editing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zixiang Li , Haoyu Wang , Wei Wang , Chuangchuang Tan , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are a key component in modern generative models. DPM-solvers have achieved reduced latency and enhanced quality significantly, but have posed challenges to find the exact inverse (i.e., finding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Seongmin Hong , Kyeonghyun Lee , Suh Yoon Jeon , Hyewon Bae , Se Young Chun