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most citedSparsity of solutions for variational inverse problems with finite-dimensional data

51 citations · 211 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

math.OC2026

From plans to maps: Nonlocal regularization of optimal transport

Marcello Carioni, Leonardo Del Grande, José A. Iglesias +1

We introduce a nonlocal regularization of optimal transport that bridges Kantorovich and Monge formulations. The regularization penalizes oscillations through an interaction kernel…

cs.LG2026

Approximation Rates for Metaplectic Neural Networks

Ahmed Abdeljawad, Marcello Carioni, Elena Cordero

In this paper we develop quantitative approximation results for shallow neural networks constructed using a dictionary based on metaplectic operators. First, we extend the concept…

math.OC2026

A Distributionally Robust Framework for Learned Reconstructions in Inverse Problems

Floor van Maarschalkerwaart, Subhadip Mukherjee, Christoph Brune +1

Learned reconstruction operators for inverse problems are typically trained under a fixed noise model, and generalize poorly when the distribution during testing differs from the o…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Headed Transformer Architectures as Time-dependent Wasserstein Gradient Flows

Alex Massucco, Leonardo Del Grande, Marcello Carioni +2

In recent years, transformer architectures have revolutionized the field of language processing, opening the door to previously unforeseen possibilities. However, from a theoretica…

math.OC2026

Atomic Gradient Flows: Gradient Flows on Sparse Representations

Christian Amend, Marcello Carioni, Konstantinos Zemas

One of the most popular approaches for solving total variation-regularized optimization problems in the space of measures are Particle Gradient Flows (PGFs). These restrict the pro…

math.OC2026

A Dual Certificate Approach to Sparsity in Infinite-Width Shallow Neural Networks

Leonardo Del Grande, Christoph Brune, Marcello Carioni

In this paper, we study total variation (TV)-regularized training of infinite-width shallow ReLU neural networks, formulated as a convex optimization problem over measures on the u…

stat.ML2025

An invertible generative model for forward and inverse problems

Christoph Brune, Marcello Carioni, Tristan van Leeuwen +1

We formulate inverse problems in a Bayesian framework and aim to train an invertible generative model that is capable of simulation (i.e., sampling from the likelihood) and inferen…

math.AP2025

Dynamic Optimal Transport with optimal star shaped graphs

Marcello Carioni, Juliane Krautz, Jan-F. Pietschmann

We study an optimal transport problem in a compact convex set where bulk transport is coupled to dynamic optimal transport on a metric graph $ \mathsf{G} = (…

math.OC2025

Sparsity for dynamic inverse problems on Wasserstein curves with bounded variation

Marcello Carioni, Julius Lohmann

We investigate a dynamic inverse problem using a regularization which implements the so-called Wasserstein- distance. It naturally extends well-known static problems such as las…

math.AP2025

Dynamic Optimal Transport with Optimal Preferential Paths

Marcello Carioni, Juliane Krautz, Jan-F. Pietschmann

We study a dynamic optimal transport type problem on a domain that consists of two parts: a compact set (bulk) and a non-intersecting and sufficiently regul…

math.OC2025

Perturbation-Aware Distributionally Robust Optimization for Inverse Problems

Floor van Maarschalkerwaart, Subhadip Mukherjee, Malena Sabaté Landman +2

This paper builds on classical distributionally robust optimization techniques to construct a comprehensive framework that can be used for solving inverse problems. Given an estima…

math.FA2025

Nonlocal perimeters and variations: Extremality and decomposability for finite and infinite horizons

Marcello Carioni, Leonardo Del Grande, José A. Iglesias +1

We analyze the extremality and decomposability properties with respect to two types of nonlocal perimeters available in the literature, the Gagliardo perimeter based on the eponymo…

math.FA2024

A Lipschitz spaces view of infinitely wide shallow neural networks

Francesca Bartolucci, Marcello Carioni, José A. Iglesias +3

We revisit the mean field parametrization of shallow neural networks, using signed measures on unbounded parameter spaces and duality pairings that take into account the regularity…

math.OC2024

Exact Sparse Representation Recovery in Signal Demixing and Group BLASSO

Marcello Carioni, Leonardo Del Grande

In this short article we present the theory of sparse representations recovery in convex regularized optimization problems introduced in (Carioni and Del Grande, arXiv:2311.08072,…

cs.CV2023

Unsupervised approaches based on optimal transport and convex analysis for inverse problems in imaging

Marcello Carioni, Subhadip Mukherjee, Hong Ye Tan +1

Unsupervised deep learning approaches have recently become one of the crucial research areas in imaging owing to their ability to learn expressive and powerful reconstruction opera…

math.OC2023

A General Theory for Exact Sparse Representation Recovery in Convex Optimization

Marcello Carioni, Leonardo Del Grande

In this paper, we investigate the recovery of the sparse representation of data in general infinite-dimensional optimization problems regularized by convex functionals. We show tha…

math.OC2023

A sparse optimization approach to infinite infimal convolution regularization

Kristian Bredies, Marcello Carioni, Martin Holler +2

In this paper we introduce the class of infinite infimal convolution functionals and apply these functionals to the regularization of ill-posed inverse problems. The proposed regul…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Implicit neural representations for unsupervised super-resolution and denoising of 4D flow MRI

Simone Saitta, Marcello Carioni, Subhadip Mukherjee +2

4D flow MRI is a non-invasive imaging method that can measure blood flow velocities over time. However, the velocity fields detected by this technique have limitations due to low r…

math.OC2022★ 6 cited

Extremal points and sparse optimization for generalized Kantorovich-Rubinstein norms

Marcello Carioni, José A. Iglesias, Daniel Walter

A precise characterization of the extremal points of sublevel sets of nonsmooth penalties provides both detailed information about minimizers, and optimality conditions in general…

math.OC2021★ 4 cited

Regularization Graphs -- A unified framework for variational regularization of inverse problems

Kristian Bredies, Marcello Carioni, Martin Holler

We introduce and study a mathematical framework for a broad class of regularization functionals for ill-posed inverse problems: Regularization Graphs. Regularization graphs allow t…

math.OC2021★ 12 cited

Asymptotic linear convergence of fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient methods

Kristian Bredies, Marcello Carioni, Silvio Fanzon +1

We propose a fully-corrective generalized conditional gradient method (FC-GCG) for the minimization of the sum of a smooth, convex loss function and a convex one-homogeneous regula…

cs.CV2021★ 12 cited

End-to-end reconstruction meets data-driven regularization for inverse problems

Subhadip Mukherjee, Marcello Carioni, Ozan Öktem +1

We propose an unsupervised approach for learning end-to-end reconstruction operators for ill-posed inverse problems. The proposed method combines the classical variational framewor…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

CAFLOW: Conditional Autoregressive Flows

Georgios Batzolis, Marcello Carioni, Christian Etmann +3

We introduce CAFLOW, a new diverse image-to-image translation model that simultaneously leverages the power of auto-regressive modeling and the modeling efficiency of conditional n…

math.NA2020★ 24 cited

A generalized conditional gradient method for dynamic inverse problems with optimal transport regularization

Kristian Bredies, Marcello Carioni, Silvio Fanzon +1

We develop a dynamic generalized conditional gradient method (DGCG) for dynamic inverse problems with optimal transport regularization. We consider the framework introduced in (Bre…