DIPA: Distilled Preconditioned Algorithms for Solving Imaging Inverse Problems

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Hauptverfasser: Gualdrón-Hurtado, Romario, Jacome, Roman, Suarez, Leon, Arguello, Henry
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author Gualdrón-Hurtado, Romario
Jacome, Roman
Suarez, Leon
Arguello, Henry
author_facet Gualdrón-Hurtado, Romario
Jacome, Roman
Suarez, Leon
Arguello, Henry
contents Solving imaging inverse problems has usually been addressed by designing proper prior models of the underlying signal. However, minimizing the data fidelity term poses significant challenges due to the ill-conditioned sensing matrix caused by physical constraints in the acquisition system. Thus, preconditioning techniques have been adopted in classical optimization theory to address ill-conditioned data-fidelity minimization by transforming the algorithm gradient step to achieve faster convergence and better numerical stability. We extend the preconditioning concept beyond convergence acceleration and use it to improve reconstruction quality. We introduce DIPA: Distilled Preconditioned Algorithms, where a preconditioning operator (PO) is optimized using teacher-guided distillation criteria. Unlike standard model-compression KD, the teacher and student differ by the sensing operators available during reconstruction: the teacher uses a simulated, better-conditioned, and more informative sensing matrix, whereas the student uses the physically feasible sensing matrix. We design different distillation loss functions to transfer different properties of the teacher algorithm to the preconditioned student. The PO can be linear (L-DIPA), allowing interpretability, or non-linear (N-DIPA), parametrized by a neural network, offering better scalability. We validate the proposed PO design across several imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging, compressed sensing, and super-resolution imaging.
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spellingShingle DIPA: Distilled Preconditioned Algorithms for Solving Imaging Inverse Problems
Gualdrón-Hurtado, Romario
Jacome, Roman
Suarez, Leon
Arguello, Henry
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Optimization and Control
Solving imaging inverse problems has usually been addressed by designing proper prior models of the underlying signal. However, minimizing the data fidelity term poses significant challenges due to the ill-conditioned sensing matrix caused by physical constraints in the acquisition system. Thus, preconditioning techniques have been adopted in classical optimization theory to address ill-conditioned data-fidelity minimization by transforming the algorithm gradient step to achieve faster convergence and better numerical stability. We extend the preconditioning concept beyond convergence acceleration and use it to improve reconstruction quality. We introduce DIPA: Distilled Preconditioned Algorithms, where a preconditioning operator (PO) is optimized using teacher-guided distillation criteria. Unlike standard model-compression KD, the teacher and student differ by the sensing operators available during reconstruction: the teacher uses a simulated, better-conditioned, and more informative sensing matrix, whereas the student uses the physically feasible sensing matrix. We design different distillation loss functions to transfer different properties of the teacher algorithm to the preconditioned student. The PO can be linear (L-DIPA), allowing interpretability, or non-linear (N-DIPA), parametrized by a neural network, offering better scalability. We validate the proposed PO design across several imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance imaging, compressed sensing, and super-resolution imaging.
title DIPA: Distilled Preconditioned Algorithms for Solving Imaging Inverse Problems
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15456