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Recently the field of inverse problems has seen a growing usage of mathematically only partially understood learned and non-learned priors. Based on first principles, we develop a projectional approach to inverse problems that addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Sören Dittmer , Peter Maass

The low-complexity assumption in linear systems can often be expressed as rank deficiency in data matrices with generalized Hankel structure. This makes it possible to denoise the data by estimating the underlying structured low-rank…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Mingzhou Yin , Roy S. Smith

In inverse problems, it is widely recognized that the incorporation of a sparsity prior yields a regularization effect on the solution. This approach is grounded on the a priori assumption that the unknown can be appropriately represented…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Giovanni S. Alberti , Luca Ratti , Matteo Santacesaria , Silvia Sciutto

Many inverse problems and signal processing problems involve low-rank regularizers based on the nuclear norm. Commonly, proximal gradient methods (PGM) are adopted to solve this type of non-smooth problems as they can offer fast and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Rodrigo A. Lobos , Javier Salazar Cavazos , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Ill-posed linear inverse problems (ILIP), such as restoration and reconstruction, are a core topic of signal/image processing. A standard approach to deal with ILIP uses a constrained optimization problem, where a regularization function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Manya V. Afonso , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

We consider a recursive algorithm to construct an aggregated estimator from a finite number of base decision rules in the classification problem. The estimator approximately minimizes a convex risk functional under the l1-constraint. It is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Anatoli Juditsky , Alexander Nazin , Alexandre Tsybakov , Nicolas Vayatis

Neural networks have become a prominent approach to solve inverse problems in recent years. Amongst the different existing methods, the Deep Image/Inverse Priors (DIPs) technique is an unsupervised approach that optimizes a highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nathan Buskulic , Yvain Quéau , Jalal Fadili

Blind deconvolution has made significant progress in the past decade. Most successful algorithms are classified either as Variational or Maximum a-Posteriori ($MAP$). In spite of the superior theoretical justification of variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Dilip Krishnan , Joan Bruna , Rob Fergus

Recovering images from undersampled linear measurements typically leads to an ill-posed linear inverse problem, that asks for proper statistical priors. Building effective priors is however challenged by the low train and test overhead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Morteza Mardani , Hatef Monajemi , Vardan Papyan , Shreyas Vasanawala , David Donoho , John Pauly

Image restoration, the recovery of clean images from degraded measurements, has applications in various domains like surveillance, defense, and medical imaging. Despite achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) restoration performance, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shubhi Shukla , Pravin Nair

In many statistical learning problems, it is desired that the optimal solution conforms to an a priori known sparsity structure represented by a directed acyclic graph. Inducing such structures by means of convex regularizers requires…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Dewei Zhang , Yin Liu , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

Rapid advances in data collection and processing capabilities have allowed for the use of increasingly complex models that give rise to nonconvex optimization problems. These formulations, however, can be arbitrarily difficult to solve in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

In recent literature there are plenty of works that combine handcrafted and learnable regularizers to solve inverse imaging problems. While this hybrid approach has demonstrated promising results, the motivation for combining handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Alexandros Gkillas , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of successively minimizing a sequence of upper bounds of the objective function. These upper bounds are tight at the current estimate, and each iteration monotonically drives the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Julien Mairal

Quadratic-support functions [Aravkin, Burke, and Pillonetto; J. Mach. Learn. Res. 14(1), 2013] constitute a parametric family of convex functions that includes a range of useful regularization terms found in applications of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Michael P. Friedlander , Gabriel Goh

Here we consider the problem of denoising features associated to complex data, modeled as signals on a graph, via a smoothness prior. This is motivated in part by settings such as single-cell RNA where the data is very high-dimensional, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Sam Leone , Xingzhi Sun , Michael Perlmutter , Smita Krishnaswamy

Real-world noise removal is crucial in low-level computer vision. Due to the remarkable generation capabilities of diffusion models, recent attention has shifted towards leveraging diffusion priors for image restoration tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jun Cheng , Shan Tan

Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

We propose an accelerated forward-backward method with fast convergence rate for finding a minimizer of a decomposable nonsmooth convex function over a closed convex set, and name it smoothing accelerated proximal gradient (SAPG) algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Wei Bian , Fan Wu