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most citedConvolutional Proximal Neural Networks and Plug-and-Play Algorithms

52 citations · 192 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

math.FA2026

A sharp bound for sampling widths in the uniform norm: kernel -optimal designs and oversampling

Sebastian Neumayer, Tino Ullrich

For every reproducing kernel Hilbert space with bounded kernel , we prove that the linear sampling widths and Gelfand widths in the unif…

math.NA2026

Greedy sampling designs via reduced basis methods: optimal recovery in the uniform norm

Sebastian Neumayer, Kateryna Pozharska, Tino Ullrich

We study optimal sampling recovery in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) in the uniform norm. For every RKHS with bounded kernel, we establish new comparisons between linear…

math.NA2025

High-dimensional sparse recovery from function samples - Decoders, guarantees and instance optimality

Moritz Moeller, Sebastian Neumayer, Kateryna Pozharska +2

We investigate the reconstruction of multivariate functions from samples using sparse recovery techniques. For Square Root Lasso, Orthogonal Matching Pursuit, and Compressive Sampl…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Moreau Envelopes of f-Divergences in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Viktor Stein, Sebastian Neumayer, Nicolaj Rux +1

Commonly used -divergences of measures, e.g., the Kullback-Leibler divergence, are subject to limitations regarding the support of the involved measures. A remedy is regularizin…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Learning Weakly Convex Regularizers for Convergent Image-Reconstruction Algorithms

Alexis Goujon, Sebastian Neumayer, Michael Unser

We propose to learn non-convex regularizers with a prescribed upper bound on their weak-convexity modulus. Such regularizers give rise to variational denoisers that minimize a conv…

cs.LG2023

On the Effect of Initialization: The Scaling Path of 2-Layer Neural Networks

Sebastian Neumayer, Lénaïc Chizat, Michael Unser

In supervised learning, the regularization path is sometimes used as a convenient theoretical proxy for the optimization path of gradient descent initialized from zero. In this pap…

eess.IV2022★ 2 cited

A Neural-Network-Based Convex Regularizer for Inverse Problems

Alexis Goujon, Sebastian Neumayer, Pakshal Bohra +2

The emergence of deep-learning-based methods to solve image-reconstruction problems has enabled a significant increase in reconstruction quality. Unfortunately, these new methods o…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Improving Lipschitz-Constrained Neural Networks by Learning Activation Functions

Stanislas Ducotterd, Alexis Goujon, Pakshal Bohra +3

Lipschitz-constrained neural networks have several advantages over unconstrained ones and can be applied to a variety of problems, making them a topic of attention in the deep lear…

math.OC2022

Stability of Image-Reconstruction Algorithms

Pol del Aguila Pla, Sebastian Neumayer, Michael Unser

Robustness and stability of image-reconstruction algorithms have recently come under scrutiny. Their importance to medical imaging cannot be overstated. We review the known results…

cs.LG2022

Approximation of Lipschitz Functions using Deep Spline Neural Networks

Sebastian Neumayer, Alexis Goujon, Pakshal Bohra +1

Lipschitz-constrained neural networks have many applications in machine learning. Since designing and training expressive Lipschitz-constrained networks is very challenging, there…

math.FA2022

Explicit representations for Banach subspaces of Lizorkin distributions

Sebastian Neumayer, Michael Unser

The Lizorkin space is well-suited for studying various operators; e.g., fractional Laplacians and the Radon transform. In this paper, we show that the space is unfortunately not co…

math.OC2021★ 1 cited

Template-Based Image Reconstruction Facing Different Topologies

Sebastian Neumayer, Antonia Topalovic

The reconstruction of images from measured data is an increasing field of research. For highly under-determined problems, template-based image reconstruction provides a way of comp…

math.OC2021

An Image Registration Model in Electron Backscatter Diffraction

Manuel Gräf, Sebastian Neumayer, Ralf Hielscher +3

Recently, variational methods were successfully applied for computing the optical flow in gray and RGB-valued image sequences. A crucial assumption in these models is that pixel-va…

math.OC2021★ 26 cited

Unbalanced Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport

Florian Beier, Johannes von Lindheim, Sebastian Neumayer +1

Entropy regularized optimal transport and its multi-marginal generalization have attracted increasing attention in various applications, in particular due to efficient Sinkhorn-lik…

math.OC2020★ 52 cited

Convolutional Proximal Neural Networks and Plug-and-Play Algorithms

Johannes Hertrich, Sebastian Neumayer, Gabriele Steidl

In this paper, we introduce convolutional proximal neural networks (cPNNs), which are by construction averaged operators. For filters of full length, we propose a stochastic gradie…

cs.LG2020★ 31 cited

Stabilizing Invertible Neural Networks Using Mixture Models

Paul Hagemann, Sebastian Neumayer

In this paper, we analyze the properties of invertible neural networks, which provide a way of solving inverse problems. Our main focus lies on investigating and controlling the Li…

math.NA2020★ 11 cited

Transfer Operators from Optimal Transport Plans for Coherent Set Detection

Péter Koltai, Johannes von Lindheim, Sebastian Neumayer +1

The topic of this study lies in the intersection of two fields. One is related with analyzing transport phenomena in complicated flows.For this purpose, we use so-called coherent s…

math.OC2020

From Optimal Transport to Discrepancy

Sebastian Neumayer, Gabriele Steidl

A common way to quantify the ,,distance'' between measures is via their discrepancy, also known as maximum mean discrepancy (MMD). Discrepancies are related to Sinkhorn divergences…

math.NA2019★ 50 cited

Parseval Proximal Neural Networks

Marzieh Hasannasab, Johannes Hertrich, Sebastian Neumayer +3

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we show that a certain concatenation of a proximity operator with an affine operator is again a proximity operator on a suitable Hilbert sp…

math.OC2019★ 1 cited

Frame Soft Shrinkage as Proximity Operator

Marzieh Hassanasab, Sebastian Neumayer, Gerlind Plonka +3

Let and be real Hilbert spaces and an injective operator with closed range and Moore-Penrose inverse $T^\dagge…

math.OC2019

Curve Based Approximation of Measures on Manifolds by Discrepancy Minimization

Martin Ehler, Manuel Gräf, Sebastian Neumayer +1

The approximation of probability measures on compact metric spaces and in particular on Riemannian manifoldsby atomic or empirical ones is a classical task in approximation and com…

math.NA2019

Minimal Lipschitz and -Harmonic Extensions of Vector-Valued Functions on Finite Graphs

Miroslav Bačák, Johannes Hertrich, Sebastian Neumayer +1

This paper deals with extensions of vector-valued functions on finite graphs fulfilling distinguished minimality properties. We show that so-called lex and L-lex minimal extensions…

math.NA2019

On the Robust PCA and Weiszfeld's Algorithm

Sebastian Neumayer, Max Nimmer, Simon Setzer +1

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a powerful standard tool for reducing the dimensionality of data. Unfortunately, it is sensitive to outliers so that various robust PCA varian…

math.OC2019

Convergence of the Time Discrete Metamorphosis Model on Hadamard Manifolds

Alexander Effland, Sebastian Neumayer, Martin Rumpf

Continuous image morphing is a classical task in image processing. The metamorphosis model proposed by Trouvé, Younes and coworkers casts this problem in the frame of Riemannian ge…