Improved Imaging by Invex Regularizers with Global Optima GuaranteesDownload PDF

Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 23 Oct 2022NeurIPS 2022 AcceptReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Invexity, Regularizer, Imaging, Global optima, Non-convex optimization, Convexity
TL;DR: This paper pursuits to mitigate loosing the guarantees for global optima in non-convex optimization by revisiting the concept of invexity.
Abstract: Image reconstruction enhanced by regularizers, e.g., to enforce sparsity, low rank or smoothness priors on images, has many successful applications in vision tasks such as computer photography, biomedical and spectral imaging. It has been well accepted that non-convex regularizers normally perform better than convex ones in terms of the reconstruction quality. But their convergence analysis is only established to a critical point, rather than the global optima. To mitigate the loss of guarantees for global optima, we propose to apply the concept of invexity and provide the first list of proved invex regularizers for improving image reconstruction. Moreover, we establish convergence guarantees to global optima for various advanced image reconstruction techniques after being improved by such invex regularization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first practical work applying invex regularization to improve imaging with global optima guarantees. To demonstrate the effectiveness of invex regularization, numerical experiments are conducted for various imaging tasks using benchmark datasets.
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