TY - UNPB
T1 - Regularization of Inverse Problems
T2 - Deep Equilibrium Models versus Bilevel Learning
AU - Riccio, Danilo
AU - Ehrhardt, Matthias J.
AU - Benning, Martin
N1 - The authors would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Mathematics of Deep Learning where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant no EP/R014604/1. This research utilized Queen Mary’s Apocrita and Andrena HPC facilities, supported by QMUL Research-IT http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.438045. DR acknowledges support from EPSRC grant EP/513106/1. MJE acknowledges support from the EPSRC (EP/S026045/1, EP/T026693/1, EP/V026259/1) and the Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2019-478).
PY - 2022/6/27
Y1 - 2022/6/27
N2 - Variational regularization methods are commonly used to approximate solutions of inverse problems. In recent years, model-based variational regularization methods have often been replaced with data-driven ones such as the fields-of-expert model (Roth and Black, 2009). Training the parameters of such data-driven methods can be formulated as a bilevel optimization problem. In this paper, we compare the framework of bilevel learning for the training of data-driven variational regularization models with the novel framework of deep equilibrium models (Bai, Kolter, and Koltun, 2019) that has recently been introduced in the context of inverse problems (Gilton, Ongie, and Willett, 2021). We show that computing the lower-level optimization problem within the bilevel formulation with a fixed point iteration is a special case of the deep equilibrium framework. We compare both approaches computationally, with a variety of numerical examples for the inverse problems of denoising, inpainting and deconvolution.
AB - Variational regularization methods are commonly used to approximate solutions of inverse problems. In recent years, model-based variational regularization methods have often been replaced with data-driven ones such as the fields-of-expert model (Roth and Black, 2009). Training the parameters of such data-driven methods can be formulated as a bilevel optimization problem. In this paper, we compare the framework of bilevel learning for the training of data-driven variational regularization models with the novel framework of deep equilibrium models (Bai, Kolter, and Koltun, 2019) that has recently been introduced in the context of inverse problems (Gilton, Ongie, and Willett, 2021). We show that computing the lower-level optimization problem within the bilevel formulation with a fixed point iteration is a special case of the deep equilibrium framework. We compare both approaches computationally, with a variety of numerical examples for the inverse problems of denoising, inpainting and deconvolution.
KW - math.OC
M3 - Preprint
BT - Regularization of Inverse Problems
ER -