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20192026
most citedSteady-State Planning in Expected Reward Multichain MDPs

4 citations · 11 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.LG2026

Backward-Consistent Diffusion Sampling for Sparsely Observed PDE Inverse Problems

Yida Pan, Muhammad H. Ashiq, Chanyong Jung +4

Recovering Partial Differential Equation (PDE) coefficient fields from extremely sparse observations is a severely ill-posed inverse problem for which generative machine learning m…

cs.DM2026

Parallelizable Gradient-Based Optimization For Multi-Objective MaxCut

Jingjuan Huang, Alvaro Velasquez, Cheng-Han Huang +3

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization arises in a wide range of problems and applications, including the canonical multi-objective MaxCut problem. Differentiable single-instan…

cs.DM2026

Local Minima in Quadratic-Penalty Relaxations of Binary Linear Programs

Cheng-Han Huang, Yongliang Sun, Chaoyan Huang +2

Many combinatorial optimization problems admit quadratic unconstrained binary formulations (QUBO) which can often be relaxed to the box and optimized using scalable gradi…

eess.IV2026

ForcingDAS: Unified and Robust Data Assimilation via Diffusion Forcing

Yixuan Jia, Siyi Chen, Yida Pan +9

Data assimilation (DA) estimates the state of an evolving dynamical system from noisy, partial observations, and is widely used in scientific simulation as well as weather and clim…

cs.CV2026

A Principled Self-Referenced Early Stopping Approach for Deep Image Prior

Chaoyan Huang, Cheng-Han Huang, Ismail R. Alkhouri +1

Recently, Deep Image Prior (DIP) has demonstrated strong capabilities for solving inverse imaging problems (IIPs) by optimizing a randomly initialized convolutional neural network…

eess.IV2026

Dynamic MRI Reconstruction Via Dual Deep Priors and Low-Rank Plus Sparse Modeling

Yongliang Sun, Siddhant Gautam, Chaoyan Huang +3

Dynamic MRI reconstruction from undersampled measurements is a challenging inverse problem that requires preserving both spatial reconstruction quality and temporal consistency acr…

cs.DM2026

Differentiable Repairability & Mutations for Scalable Combinatorial Optimization

Yongliang Sun, Ismail Alkhouri, Cheng-Han Huang +3

Combinatorial optimization problems such as Maximum Independent Set (MIS) and Maximum Cut (MaxCut) arise across a wide range of applications, yet solving large-scale instances rema…

cs.LO2026

GaloisSAT: Differentiable Boolean Satisfiability Solving via Finite Field Algebra

Curie Kim, Carsten Portner, Mingju Liu +6

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem, the first problem proven to be NP-complete, has become a fundamental challenge in computational complexity, with widespread applications in op…

eess.IV2025

Tada-DIP: Input-adaptive Deep Image Prior for One-shot 3D Image Reconstruction

Evan Bell, Shijun Liang, Ismail Alkhouri +1

Deep Image Prior (DIP) has recently emerged as a promising one-shot neural-network based image reconstruction method. However, DIP has seen limited application to 3D image reconstr…

eess.IV2025

NERD: Network-Regularized Diffusion Sampling For 3D Computed Tomography

Shijun Liang, Ismail Alkhouri, Qing Qu +2

Numerous diffusion model (DM)-based methods have been proposed for solving inverse imaging problems. Among these, a recent line of work has demonstrated strong performance by formu…

cs.LG2025

On the Dataless Training of Neural Networks

Alvaro Velasquez, Susmit Jha, Ismail R. Alkhouri

This paper surveys studies on the use of neural networks for optimization in the training-data-free setting. Specifically, we examine the dataless application of neural network arc…

cs.DM2025

A Scalable Lift-and-Project Differentiable Approach For the Maximum Cut Problem

Ismail Alkhouri, Mian Wu, Cunxi Yu +3

We propose a scalable framework for solving the Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem in large graphs using projected gradient ascent on quadratic objectives. Our approach is differentiable…

cs.LG2025

A Dataless Reinforcement Learning Approach to Rounding Hyperplane Optimization for Max-Cut

Gabriel Maliakal, Ismail Alkhouri, Alvaro Velasquez +2

The Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem is NP-Complete, and obtaining its optimal solution is NP-hard in the worst case. As a result, heuristic-based algorithms are commonly used, though…

cs.CV2025

UGoDIT: Unsupervised Group Deep Image Prior Via Transferable Weights

Shijun Liang, Ismail R. Alkhouri, Siddhant Gautam +2

Recent advances in data-centric deep generative models have led to significant progress in solving inverse imaging problems. However, these models (e.g., diffusion models (DMs)) ty…

eess.IV2025

Understanding Untrained Deep Models for Inverse Problems: Algorithms and Theory

Ismail Alkhouri, Evan Bell, Avrajit Ghosh +3

In recent years, deep learning methods have been extensively developed for inverse imaging problems (IIPs), encompassing supervised, self-supervised, and generative approaches. Mos…

eess.IV2024

Sequential Diffusion-Guided Deep Image Prior For Medical Image Reconstruction

Shijun Liang, Ismail Alkhouri, Qing Qu +2

Deep learning (DL) methods have been extensively applied to various image recovery problems, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) reconstruction.…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

SITCOM: Step-wise Triple-Consistent Diffusion Sampling for Inverse Problems

Ismail Alkhouri, Shijun Liang, Cheng-Han Huang +4

Diffusion models (DMs) are a class of generative models that allow sampling from a distribution learned over a training set. When applied to solving inverse problems, the reverse s…

cs.DM2024

Differentiable Quadratic Optimization For The Maximum Independent Set Problem

Ismail Alkhouri, Cedric Le Denmat, Yingjie Li +4

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) addresses many important problems, including the challenging Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. Alongside exact and heuristic solvers, different…

cs.LG2024

Structure-Preserving Network Compression Via Low-Rank Induced Training Through Linear Layers Composition

Xitong Zhang, Ismail R. Alkhouri, Rongrong Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in addressing many previously unsolvable tasks. However, the storage and computational requirements associated with DNN…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Decoupled Data Consistency with Diffusion Purification for Image Restoration

Xiang Li, Soo Min Kwon, Shijun Liang +3

Diffusion models have recently gained traction as a powerful class of deep generative priors, excelling in a wide range of image restoration tasks due to their exceptional ability…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Improving Efficiency of Diffusion Models via Multi-Stage Framework and Tailored Multi-Decoder Architectures

Huijie Zhang, Yifu Lu, Ismail Alkhouri +3

Diffusion models, emerging as powerful deep generative tools, excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and t…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Robust MRI Reconstruction by Smoothed Unrolling (SMUG)

Shijun Liang, Van Hoang Minh Nguyen, Jinghan Jia +3

As the popularity of deep learning (DL) in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) continues to rise, recent research has indicated that DL-based MRI reconstruction models mi…

eess.IV2023

Robust Physics-based Deep MRI Reconstruction Via Diffusion Purification

Ismail Alkhouri, Shijun Liang, Rongrong Wang +2

Deep learning (DL) techniques have been extensively employed in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, delivering notable performance enhancements over traditional non-DL…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

On the Robustness of AlphaFold: A COVID-19 Case Study

Ismail Alkhouri, Sumit Jha, Andre Beckus +5

Protein folding neural networks (PFNNs) such as AlphaFold predict remarkably accurate structures of proteins compared to other approaches. However, the robustness of such networks…