Efficient Bayesian Computation Using Plug-and-Play Priors for Poisson Inverse Problems

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Main Authors: Klatzer, Teresa, Melidonis, Savvas, Pereyra, Marcelo, Zygalakis, Konstantinos C.
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author Klatzer, Teresa
Melidonis, Savvas
Pereyra, Marcelo
Zygalakis, Konstantinos C.
author_facet Klatzer, Teresa
Melidonis, Savvas
Pereyra, Marcelo
Zygalakis, Konstantinos C.
contents This paper studies plug-and-play (PnP) Langevin sampling strategies for Bayesian inference in low-photon Poisson imaging problems, a challenging class of problems with significant applications in astronomy, medicine, and biology. PnP Langevin sampling offers a powerful framework for Bayesian image restoration, enabling accurate point estimation as well as advanced inference tasks, including uncertainty quantification and visualization analyses, and empirical Bayesian inference for automatic model parameter tuning. Herein, we leverage and adapt recent developments in this framework to tackle challenging imaging problems involving weakly informative Poisson data. Existing PnP Langevin algorithms are not well-suited for low-photon Poisson imaging due to high solution uncertainty and poor regularity properties, such as exploding gradients and non-negativity constraints. To address these challenges, we explore two strategies for extending Langevin PnP sampling to Poisson imaging models: (i) an accelerated PnP Langevin method that incorporates boundary reflections and a Poisson likelihood approximation and (ii) a mirror sampling algorithm that leverages a Riemannian geometry to handle the constraints and the poor regularity of the likelihood without approximations. The effectiveness of these approaches is evaluated and contrasted through extensive numerical experiments and comparisons with state-of-the-art methods. The source code accompanying this paper is available at https://github.com/freyyia/pnp-langevin-poisson.
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spellingShingle Efficient Bayesian Computation Using Plug-and-Play Priors for Poisson Inverse Problems
Klatzer, Teresa
Melidonis, Savvas
Pereyra, Marcelo
Zygalakis, Konstantinos C.
Computation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Numerical Analysis
Machine Learning
53B21, 60H35, 62F15, 65C40, 65C60, 65J22, 68U10
This paper studies plug-and-play (PnP) Langevin sampling strategies for Bayesian inference in low-photon Poisson imaging problems, a challenging class of problems with significant applications in astronomy, medicine, and biology. PnP Langevin sampling offers a powerful framework for Bayesian image restoration, enabling accurate point estimation as well as advanced inference tasks, including uncertainty quantification and visualization analyses, and empirical Bayesian inference for automatic model parameter tuning. Herein, we leverage and adapt recent developments in this framework to tackle challenging imaging problems involving weakly informative Poisson data. Existing PnP Langevin algorithms are not well-suited for low-photon Poisson imaging due to high solution uncertainty and poor regularity properties, such as exploding gradients and non-negativity constraints. To address these challenges, we explore two strategies for extending Langevin PnP sampling to Poisson imaging models: (i) an accelerated PnP Langevin method that incorporates boundary reflections and a Poisson likelihood approximation and (ii) a mirror sampling algorithm that leverages a Riemannian geometry to handle the constraints and the poor regularity of the likelihood without approximations. The effectiveness of these approaches is evaluated and contrasted through extensive numerical experiments and comparisons with state-of-the-art methods. The source code accompanying this paper is available at https://github.com/freyyia/pnp-langevin-poisson.
title Efficient Bayesian Computation Using Plug-and-Play Priors for Poisson Inverse Problems
topic Computation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Numerical Analysis
Machine Learning
53B21, 60H35, 62F15, 65C40, 65C60, 65J22, 68U10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16222