EUROPT 2024
Abstract Submission

329. Learning Total-Variation Regularization Parameters via Weak Optimal Transport

Invited abstract in session FD-7: Optimal Transport for Machine Learning and Inverse Problems, stream Optimization for Inverse Problems and Machine Learning.

Friday, 14:10 - 15:50
Room: M:I

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Enis Chenchene
2. Kristian Bredies
Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz

Abstract

We introduce a novel method for data-driven tuning of regularization parameters in total-variation denoising. The proposed approach leverages the semi-dual Brenier formulation of weak optimal transport between the distributions of clean and noisy images to devise a new loss function for total variation parameter learning. Our loss has a close connection to the traditional bilevel quadratic setting, but it leads to fully explicit monolevel problems, which are, in fact, convex under certain conditions. For training, we introduce a new conditional-gradient-type method, which can handle a complex and unbounded constraint set with computations up to numerical precision. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and suggest promising avenues for future extensions.

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Status: accepted


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