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most citedInvertible generative models for inverse problems: mitigating representation error and dataset bias

42 citations · 133 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Usman Anwar, Shehryar Malik, Alireza Aghasi +1

In real world settings, numerous constraints are present which are hard to specify mathematically. However, for the real world deployment of reinforcement learning (RL), it is crit…

eess.IV2020★ 3 cited

Subsampled Fourier Ptychography using Pretrained Invertible and Untrained Network Priors

Fahad Shamshad, Asif Hanif, Ali Ahmed

Recently pretrained generative models have shown promising results for subsampled Fourier Ptychography (FP) in terms of quality of reconstruction for extremely low sampling rate an…

cs.LG2020

Learning To Solve Differential Equations Across Initial Conditions

Shehryar Malik, Usman Anwar, Ali Ahmed +1

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in using neural networks for solving partial differential equations. A number of neural network-based partial differential equation solve…

eess.IV2020

Class-Specific Blind Deconvolutional Phase Retrieval Under a Generative Prior

Fahad Shamshad, Ali Ahmed

In this paper, we consider the highly ill-posed problem of jointly recovering two real-valued signals from the phaseless measurements of their circular convolution. The problem ari…

cs.IT2019★ 1 cited

Sub-Nyquist Sampling of Sparse and Correlated Signals in Array Processing

Ali Ahmed, Fahad Shamshad, Humera Hameed

This paper considers efficient sampling of simultaneously sparse and correlated (SC) signals. Such signals arise in various applications in array processing. We propose an impl…

cs.CV2019★ 5 cited

Blind Image Deconvolution using Pretrained Generative Priors

Muhammad Asim, Fahad Shamshad, Ali Ahmed

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the ill-posed blind image deconvolution (blind image deblurring) problem using deep generative networks. We employ two separate d…

math.OC2019★ 5 cited

Bilinear Compressed Sensing under known Signs via Convex Programming

Alireza Aghasi, Ali Ahmed, Paul Hand +1

We consider the bilinear inverse problem of recovering two vectors, and , from their entrywise product. We consider…

cs.IT2019★ 1 cited

Simultaneous Phase Retrieval and Blind Deconvolution via Convex Programming

Ali Ahmed, Alireza Aghasi, Paul Hand

We consider the task of recovering two real or complex -vectors from phaseless Fourier measurements of their circular convolution. Our method is a novel convex relaxation that i…

cs.CV2019★ 42 cited

Invertible generative models for inverse problems: mitigating representation error and dataset bias

Muhammad Asim, Mara Daniels, Oscar Leong +2

Trained generative models have shown remarkable performance as priors for inverse problems in imaging -- for example, Generative Adversarial Network priors permit recovery of test…

eess.SP2019

Channel Protection using Random Modulation

Ali Ahmed, Humera Hameed

This paper shows that modulation protects a bandlimited signal against convolutive interference. A signal , bandlimited to Hz, is modulated (pointwise multiplied) with a k…

cs.LG2018

Deep Ptych: Subsampled Fourier Ptychography using Generative Priors

Fahad Shamshad, Farwa Abbas, Ali Ahmed

This paper proposes a novel framework to regularize the highly ill-posed and non-linear Fourier ptychography problem using generative models. We demonstrate experimentally that our…

cs.CV2018★ 1 cited

Leveraging Deep Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimator for Unsupervised X-ray Denoising

Fahad Shamshad, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Asim +3

Among the plethora of techniques devised to curb the prevalence of noise in medical images, deep learning based approaches have shown the most promise. However, one critical limita…

cs.IT2018

Blind Deconvolution using Modulated Inputs

Ali Ahmed

This paper considers the blind deconvolution of multiple modulated signals, and an arbitrary filter. Multiple inputs $\boldsymbol{s}_1, \boldsymbol{s}_2, \ldots, \boldsymbol{s}_N =…

math.OC2018

A convex program for bilinear inversion of sparse vectors

Alireza Aghasi, Ali Ahmed, Paul Hand +1

We consider the bilinear inverse problem of recovering two vectors, and , from their entrywise product. We consider t…

cs.LG2018★ 22 cited

Robust Compressive Phase Retrieval via Deep Generative Priors

Fahad Shamshad, Ali Ahmed

This paper proposes a new framework to regularize the highly ill-posed and non-linear phase retrieval problem through deep generative priors using simple gradient descent algorithm…

cs.IT2018★ 4 cited

Blind Deconvolutional Phase Retrieval via Convex Programming

Ali Ahmed, Alireza Aghasi, Paul Hand

We consider the task of recovering two real or complex -vectors from phaseless Fourier measurements of their circular convolution. Our method is a novel convex relaxation that i…

cs.CV2018

Blind Image Deconvolution using Deep Generative Priors

Muhammad Asim, Fahad Shamshad, Ali Ahmed

This paper proposes a novel approach to regularize the \textit{ill-posed} and \textit{non-linear} blind image deconvolution (blind deblurring) using deep generative networks as pri…

cs.IT2017★ 6 cited

BranchHull: Convex bilinear inversion from the entrywise product of signals with known signs

Alireza Aghasi, Ali Ahmed, Paul Hand +1

We consider the bilinear inverse problem of recovering two vectors, and , in from their entrywise product. For the case where the vectors have known signs and…

math.OC2016★ 7 cited

A Convex Program for Mixed Linear Regression with a Recovery Guarantee for Well-Separated Data

Paul Hand, Babhru Joshi

We introduce a convex approach for mixed linear regression over features. This approach is a second-order cone program, based on L1 minimization, which assigns an estimate regr…

cs.IT2016★ 7 cited

Leveraging Diversity and Sparsity in Blind Deconvolution

Ali Ahmed, Laurent Demanet

This paper considers recovering -dimensional vectors , and from their circular convolutions $\bolds…

cs.IT2016★ 4 cited

Empirical Chaos Processes and Blind Deconvolution

Ali Ahmed, Felix Krahmer, Justin Romberg

This paper investigates conditions under which certain kinds of systems of bilinear equations have a unique structured solution. In particular, we look at when we can recover vecto…

cs.IT2015

Compressive Sampling of Ensembles of Correlated Signals

Ali Ahmed, Justin Romberg

We propose several sampling architectures for the efficient acquisition of an ensemble of correlated signals. We show that without prior knowledge of the correlation structure, eac…

cs.IT2013

Compressive Multiplexing of Correlated Signals

Ali Ahmed, Justin Romberg

We present a general architecture for the acquisition of ensembles of correlated signals. The signals are multiplexed onto a single line by mixing each one against a different code…

cs.IT2012★ 18 cited

Blind Deconvolution using Convex Programming

Ali Ahmed, Benjamin Recht, Justin Romberg

We consider the problem of recovering two unknown vectors, and , of length from their circular convolution. We make the structural assumption t…