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48 results for Total Variation Denoising

New TVD estimator adapts to piecewise constant functions, improving performance.

problem Improving TVD estimator performance for piecewise constant functions.
method Investigates adaptivity of TVD estimator to piecewise constant functions and proposes a data-driven tuning parameter.
result The ideally tuned TVD estimator performs better than in the worst case for piecewise constant functions.

Total variation and mean curvature flows on a Lie group quotient enhance and denoise crossing structures.

problem Preserving crossing curvilinear structures in image enhancement and denoising.
method Lifting images to the homogeneous space M=RdtimesSd1M = \mathbb{R}^d times S^{d-1}, applying PDEs for TVF and MCF, and using locally optimal differential frames.
result Better preservation of bundle boundaries and angular sharpness in fiber orientation densities at crossings compared to data-driven diffusions.

SaR-SVM-STV improves hyperspectral image classification with shape-adaptive reconstruction and denoising.

problem Classifying hyperspectral images with limited labeled data.
method Shape-adaptive Reconstruction (SaR) for pixel preprocessing, SVM for probability estimation, and Smoothed Total Variation (STV) for denoising.
result SaR-SVM-STV outperforms SVM-STV with fewer labeled data.

We study an extention of total variation denoising over images to over Cartesian power graphs and its applications to estimating non-parametric network models. The power graph fused lasso (PGFL) segments a matrix by exploiting a known graphical structure, GG, over the rows and columns. Our main results shows that for …

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes statistical guarantees for denoising reflected diffusion models.

problem The mismatch between theoretical design and implementation of diffusion models introduces issues in high-dimensional target data.
method The paper uses a reflected diffusion process as the driver of noise and establishes rates of convergence in total variation.
result The statistical guarantees for denoising reflected diffusion models match the minimax lower bound up to a polylogarithmic factor.

The paper shows diffusion models can converge faster to a target distribution with low-dimensional structure.

problem Improving the convergence rate of diffusion models to target distributions.
method Analyzing DDIM and DDPM samplers under low-dimensional structure assumptions.
result The iteration complexities of DDIM and DDPM are no greater than k/εk/\varepsilon in total variation distance.

FHDMs achieve optimal convergence in spherically supported data.

problem Statistical convergence properties of FHDMs for spherical data.
method FHDMs leverage random generation time and Doob's h-transform to optimize convergence rate.
result Achieve minimax optimal convergence rate in total variation for spherically supported Sobolev smooth data.

Two complementary approaches have been extensively used in signal and image processing leading to novel results, the sparse representation methodology and the variational strategy. Recently, a new sparsity based model has been proposed, the cosparse analysis framework, which may potentially help in bridging sparse appr…

2014-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings show score matching's accuracy doesn't ensure numerical stability in diffusion sampling.

problem Numerical stability issues in diffusion sampling despite small forward-marginal error.
method Constructing a smooth score field with arbitrarily small forward-marginal L2L^2 error, showing nonexplosive behavior and moments of every order.
result Euler--Maruyama discretizations can converge in probability even when moments diverge, demonstrating failure of weak convergence.

Diffusion models achieve high-quality samples from complex high-dimensional Gaussian mixtures without scaling with dimension.

problem Achieving accurate sampling from high-dimensional distributions using diffusion models.
method Investigates the effectiveness of diffusion models in sampling from Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) without scaling with dimension.
result DDPM requires at most O(1/ε)O(1/\varepsilon) iterations to attain an ε\varepsilon-accurate distribution in total variation distance, independent of dimension and number of components.

This paper improves non-asymptotic bounds for denoising diffusions, focusing on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.

problem Improving non-asymptotic bounds for denoising diffusions, especially for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
method Explicit non-asymptotic bounds on forward diffusion error in total variation, considering multi-modal data distributions.
result The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process cannot be significantly improved in terms of reducing terminal time TT for multi-modal data distributions.

New methods for multivariate nonparametric regression reduce dimensionality issues.

problem Nonparametric regression in high dimensions with covariates.
method Introduced entirely monotonic and constrained Hardy-Krause variation LSEs.
result Risk properties and minimax lower bounds for these LSEs.

In recent years, total variation (TV) and Euler's elastica (EE) have been successfully applied to image processing tasks such as denoising and inpainting. This paper investigates how to extend TV and EE to the supervised learning settings on high dimensional data. The supervised learning problem can be formulated as an…

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Noise2Inverse removes artifacts in noisy CT images without needing clean data.

problem Removing artifacts in noisy CT images.
method Noise2Inverse uses a deep CNN trained on multiple statistically independent reconstructions of the same noisy data.
result Noise2Inverse improves peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index compared to existing methods.

Characterizing the phase transitions of convex optimizations in recovering structured signals or data is of central importance in compressed sensing, machine learning and statistics. The phase transitions of many convex optimization signal recovery methods such as 1\ell_1 minimization and nuclear norm minimization are…

2015-09-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tackles sparse model fitting in distributed machine learning with graph-structured data.

problem Sparse model fitting across a distributed collection of heterogeneous data sets.
method Basis Pursuit Denoising with a total variation penalty, using ADMM for distributed methods.
result Recovery is successful with fewer samples than solving problems independently, or using methods with large overlap in signal supports.

New method DDVI improves posterior inference for deep Gaussian processes.

problem Inference of inducing points in DGPs is challenging and biased.
method DDVI uses denoising diffusion SDE and score matching for posterior approximation.
result Empirically shows DDVI outperforms baseline methods in inducing point inference.

In this paper we study the estimation of changing trends in time-series using 1\ell_1 trend filtering. This method generalizes 1D Total Variation (TV) denoising for detection of step changes in means to detecting changes in trends, and it relies on a convex optimization problem for which there are very efficient numer…

2014-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves tensor completion by selectively preserving important elements.

problem Recovering corrupted high-dimensional tensor data with missing entries and noise.
method Tensor weighted correlated total variation (TWCTV) regularizer with ADMM algorithm.
result Superior performance in image completion, denoising, and background subtraction tasks.

ScoreFusion fuses multiple diffusion models to enhance generative modeling of a target population.

problem Enhancing generative modeling of a target population with limited data.
method ScoreFusion uses KL barycenters of auxiliary populations and recasts the learning problem as score matching in denoising diffusion.
result ScoreFusion achieves a dimension-free sample complexity bound in total variation distance.

VADD enhances discrete diffusion models by capturing inter-dimensional correlations, improving sample quality.

problem Limited modeling of inter-dimensional dependencies in MDMs degrades performance with few denoising steps.
method Introduces an auxiliary recognition model for latent variable modeling, enabling stable training via variational lower bounds maximization and amortized inference.
result VADD consistently outperforms MDM baselines in sample quality with few denoising steps.

A new diffusion model uses efficient conditional estimators for discrete data.

problem Efficient estimation of conditional probabilities for discrete data.
method Discrete denoising diffusion framework with sample-efficient NeurISE conditional estimation.
result The method outperforms existing approaches in various metrics on binary and scientific data.

DualVDT improves time-series forecasting with a novel dual reparametrized structure.

problem Time-series forecasting with improved performance and analytical rigor.
method Dual reparametrized variational mechanisms on VAE, latent score based generative model, reverse time stochastic differential equation, variational ancestral sampling, KL divergence reduction.
result Advanced performance in time-series forecasting with reduced KL divergence.

The paper analyzes the probabilistic structure of DDPMs and bounds their sampling error.

problem Understanding and controlling errors in discrete-time DDPMs.
method Structural analysis of score functions, Schrödinger's problem, and FBSDEs.
result Explicit upper bound for total variation distance between sampling and target distributions.

Paper learns dictionaries for sparse signal recovery using automatic differentiation.

problem Learning dictionaries for sparse signal recovery from noisy data.
method Approximates reconstructions using FB algorithm and learns dictionaries with projected gradient descent.
result Successfully learns 1D TV dictionary from piecewise constant signals.

A new autoencoder framework transforms latent space to improve generative and denoising models.

problem Improving the performance of generative and denoising models in autoencoders.
method Homeomorphic transformation of latent variables to reduce distance and preserve topological properties.
result The transformed latent space leads to better performance in generative and denoising models, as measured by Hausdorff distance and visual characteristics.

New model reduces sampling cost in diffusion models, making them faster and applicable to real-world applications.

problem Challenges in generating high-quality samples, mode coverage, and fast sampling in deep generative models.
method Proposes denoising diffusion GANs that model each denoising step using a multimodal conditional GAN to reduce sampling cost.
result Demonstrates 2000imes imes faster sampling on CIFAR-10 dataset while maintaining competitive sample quality and diversity.

Framework for designing nonlinearities in neural networks with slope constraints.

problem Designing nonlinearities with specific properties for signal processing.
method Variational framework with regularization for slope constraints and optimization of adaptive splines.
result Adaptive nonuniform linear splines achieve global optimum in constrained optimization.

High-quality image synthesis with diffusion models, achieving state-of-the-art FID score.

problem Generating high-quality images from latent variables.
method Training diffusion probabilistic models with a weighted variational bound, inspired by denoising score matching and Langevin dynamics.
result State-of-the-art FID score of 3.17 on CIFAR10 dataset.

DDVI uses diffusion models for variational inference, improving latent variable model performance.

problem Improving variational inference in latent variable models.
method Introduces diffusion-based variational posteriors trained with a regularized ELBO.
result Outperforms alternative variational posteriors on various benchmarks and a biology task.

A new model designs molecular latent vectors for drug discovery.

problem Designing effective molecular descriptors from molecular structures.
method Proposes a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) for variational autoencoding molecular graphs.
result Demonstrates superior prediction performance and robustness compared to existing approaches.

AniDS improves molecular force field modeling by learning anisotropic noise.

problem Molecular force field modeling suffers from oversimplified assumptions about atomic motions.
method AniDS introduces anisotropic noise generation for better modeling of directional and structural variability.
result AniDS outperforms existing methods on benchmarks, achieving significant improvements in force prediction accuracy.

Efficiently trains large GMMs with millions to billions of parameters.

problem Training large Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) is computationally expensive.
method Derives a variational approximation integrated with mixtures of factor analyzers (MFAs) to reduce complexity.
result Sublinear scaling in training GMMs, achieving significant speed-ups.

Variational approach improves diffusion models for solving inverse problems.

problem Challenges in solving inverse problems with diffusion models due to the nonlinear and iterative nature of the diffusion process.
method Proposes a variational approach to approximate the posterior distribution, leading to regularization by denoising diffusion process (RED-Diff).
result Demonstrates improved performance in image restoration tasks compared to state-of-the-art sampling-based diffusion models.

ICE algorithm removes noisy channel assumption for universal discrete denoising.

problem Universal discrete denoising under channel uncertainty.
method Iterative channel estimation based on Neural DUDE, alternating channel estimation and neural network parameter estimation.
result ICE-N-DUDE achieves superior performance regardless of channel and clean source uncertainties.

This paper bridges statistical and machine learning approaches to variational inference.

problem Statisticians struggle to understand variational inference from a Frequentist perspective.
method Explains VI, VAEs, and DDMs from a Frequentist viewpoint, starting with EM.
result VI emerges as a scalable solution for intractable E-steps in VAEs and DDMs.

Paper establishes fast convergence theory for diffusion models under minimal assumptions.

problem Establish theoretical guarantees for diffusion models under minimal assumptions.
method Developed a convergence theory for denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) under minimal assumptions.
result Achieved convergence rate of O(d/T) for target distributions with finite first-order moment.

Ideas from the image processing literature have recently motivated a new set of clustering algorithms that rely on the concept of total variation. While these algorithms perform well for bi-partitioning tasks, their recursive extensions yield unimpressive results for multiclass clustering tasks. This paper presents a g…

2013-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian imaging methods deliver trustworthy probabilities in some cases but struggle with uncertainty quantification.

problem Uncertainty quantification in Bayesian imaging methods.
method Monte Carlo method to explore reliability of probabilities.
result Modern Bayesian imaging techniques deliver reliable probabilities in some cases but not for uncertainty quantification.