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These lecture notes for a graduate class present the regularization theory for linear and nonlinear ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert spaces. Covered are the general framework of regularization methods and their analysis via spectral…

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Learning maps between data samples is fundamental. Applications range from representation learning, image translation and generative modeling, to the estimation of spatial deformations. Such maps relate feature vectors, or map between…

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Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling. At the heart of the methodology is score matching: learning gradients of families of log-densities for noisy versions of the data distribution at different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ricardo Baptista , Agnimitra Dasgupta , Nikola B. Kovachki , Assad Oberai , Andrew M. Stuart

Various problems in computer vision and medical imaging can be cast as inverse problems. A frequent method for solving inverse problems is the variational approach, which amounts to minimizing an energy composed of a data fidelity term and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Erich Kobler , Alexander Effland , Karl Kunisch , Thomas Pock

Visual autoregressive (AR) generation offers a promising path toward unifying vision and language models, yet its performance remains suboptimal against diffusion models. Prior work often attributes this gap to tokenizer limitations and…

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Anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in automated industrial inspection, aiming to identify subtle or rare defects in otherwise uniform visual patterns. As collecting representative examples of all possible anomalies is infeasible, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Alexander Bauer , Klaus-Robert Müller

Recovering a low-complexity signal from its noisy observations by regularization methods is a cornerstone of inverse problems and compressed sensing. Stable recovery ensures that the original signal can be approximated linearly by optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Tran T. A. Nghia , Huy N. Pham , Nghia V. Vo

We propose a regularization scheme for image reconstruction that leverages the power of deep learning while hinging on classic sparsity-promoting models. Many deep-learning-based models are hard to interpret and cumbersome to analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Mehrsa Pourya , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

With the rapid growth of data, how to extract effective information from data is one of the most fundamental problems. In this paper, based on Tikhonov regularization, we propose an effective method for reconstructing the function and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Jiantang Zhang , Jin Cheng , Min Zhong

In this chapter we provide a theoretically founded investigation of state-of-the-art learning approaches for inverse problems from the point of view of spectral reconstruction operators. We give an extended definition of regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Martin Burger , Samira Kabri

There are various inverse problems -- including reconstruction problems arising in medical imaging -- where one is often aware of the forward operator that maps variables of interest to the observations. It is therefore natural to ask…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Jaweria Amjad , Zhaoyan Lyu , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

The objective of this work is to quantify the reconstruction error in sparse inverse problems with measures and stochastic noise, motivated by optimal sensor placement. To be useful in this context, the error quantities must be explicit in…

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The reconstruction of images from their corresponding noisy Radon transform is a typical example of an ill-posed linear inverse problem as arising in the application of computerized tomography (CT). As the (naive) solution does not depend…

This paper proposes a unified framework for the investigation of constrained learning theory in reflexive Banach spaces of features via regularized empirical risk minimization. The focus is placed on Tikhonov-like regularization with…

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We propose regularization strategies for learning discriminative models that are robust to in-class variations of the input data. We use the Wasserstein-2 geometry to capture semantically meaningful neighborhoods in the space of images, and…

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While recent model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have demonstrated human-level effectiveness in gaming environments, their success in everyday tasks like visual navigation has been limited, particularly under significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Rudra P. K. Poudel , Harit Pandya , Stephan Liwicki , Roberto Cipolla

We study inverse problems F(f) = g with perturbed right hand side g^{obs} corrupted by so-called impulsive noise, i.e. noise which is concentrated on a small subset of the domain of definition of g. It is well known that Tikhonov-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Thorsten Hohage , Frank Werner

Machine learning techniques for the solution of inverse problems have become an attractive approach in the last decade, while their theoretical foundations are still in their infancy. In this chapter we want to pursue the study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Martin Burger , Samira Kabri , Gitta Kutyniok , Yunseok Lee , Lukas Weigand

A number of regularization methods for discrete inverse problems consist in considering weighted versions of the usual least square solution. However, these so-called filter methods are generally restricted to monotonic transformations,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Paul Rochet

Learning effective regularization is crucial for solving ill-posed inverse problems, which arise in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. While data-driven methods that parameterize regularizers using deep neural networks…

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