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Regularization is a core component of modern inverse problems, as it helps establish the well-posedness of the solution of interest. Popular regularization approaches include variational regularization and iterative regularization. The…

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In this paper we consider the training of single hidden layer neural networks by pseudoinversion, which, in spite of its popularity, is sometimes affected by numerical instability issues. Regularization is known to be effective in such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Rossella Cancelliere , Mario Gai , Patrick Gallinari , Luca Rubini

We study a non-linear statistical inverse learning problem, where we observe the noisy image of a quantity through a non-linear operator at some random design points. We consider the widely used Tikhonov regularization (or method of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Abhishake Rastogi , Gilles Blanchard , Peter Mathé

This work is concerned with the recovery of piecewise constant images from noisy linear measurements. We study the noise robustness of a variational reconstruction method, which is based on total (gradient) variation regularization. We show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yohann De Castro , Vincent Duval , Romain Petit

A main drawback of classical Tikhonov regularization is that often the parameters required to apply theoretical results, e.g., the smoothness of the sought-after solution and the noise level, are unknown in practice. In this paper we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Daniel Gerth , Ronny Ramlau

Retrieval systems rely on representations learned by increasingly powerful models. However, due to the high training cost and inconsistencies in learned representations, there is significant interest in facilitating communication between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Simone Ricci , Niccolò Biondi , Federico Pernici , Ioannis Patras , Alberto Del Bimbo

Problems in machine learning (ML) can involve noisy input data, and ML classification methods have reached limiting accuracies when based on standard ML data sets consisting of feature vectors and their classes. Greater accuracy will…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-31 Yue Fan , Louise Raphael , Mark Kon

In this article we study the problem of recovering the unknown solution of a linear ill-posed problem, via iterative regularization methods. We review the problem of projection-regularization from a statistical point of view. A basic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Ana K. Fermin , Carenne Ludena

This work proposes a learning-based statistical refinement method for improving the denoising results of a given denoiser without knowing the precise noise distribution or accessing clean images or calibration data. While there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Rihuan Ke

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

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear ill-posed inverse problem with noisy data in the statistical learning setting. The Tikhonov regularization scheme in Hilbert scales is considered to reconstruct the estimator from the random noisy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Abhishake Rastogi

Objective: This paper investigates how generative models, trained on ground-truth images, can be used \changes{as} priors for inverse problems, penalizing reconstructions far from images the generator can produce. The aim is that learned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Margaret Duff , Ivor J. A. Simpson , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Neill D. F. Campbell

The success of deep neural networks is mostly due their ability to learn meaningful features from the data. Features learned in the hidden layers of deep neural networks trained in computer vision tasks have been shown to be similar to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Biswajit Paria , Vikas Reddy , Anirban Santara , Pabitra Mitra

Imaging is a standard example of an inverse problem, where the task of reconstructing a ground truth from a noisy measurement is ill-posed. Recent state-of-the-art approaches for imaging use deep learning, spearheaded by unrolled and…

Conditional stability estimates require additional regularization for obtaining stable approximate solutions if the validity area of such estimates is not completely known. In this context, we consider ill-posed nonlinear inverse problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Frank Werner , Bernd Hofmann

Discrete inverse problems correspond to solving a system of equations in a stable way with respect to noise in the data. A typical approach to enforce uniqueness and select a meaningful solution is to introduce a regularizer. While for most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Cristian Vega , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Nonlocal operators with integral kernels have become a popular tool for designing solution maps between function spaces, due to their efficiency in representing long-range dependence and the attractive feature of being resolution-invariant.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-24 Fei Lu , Qingci An , Yue Yu

Tikhonov regularization is studied in the case of linear pseudodifferential operator as the forward map and additive white Gaussian noise as the measurement error. The measurement model for an unknown function $u(x)$ is \begin{eqnarray*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Hanne Kekkonen , Matti Lassas , Samuli Siltanen

Learning-based methods have demonstrated remarkable performance in solving inverse problems, particularly in image reconstruction tasks. Despite their success, these approaches often lack theoretical guarantees, which are crucial in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Clemens Arndt , Judith Nickel

Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xinyue Yu , Hayden Schaeffer