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Hauptverfasser: Lee, Donggyu, Lee, Taekyung, Choi, Jaewoong
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21094
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author Lee, Donggyu
Lee, Taekyung
Choi, Jaewoong
author_facet Lee, Donggyu
Lee, Taekyung
Choi, Jaewoong
contents We investigate unpaired image inverse problems, a challenging setting where only independent, non-paired sets of noisy measurements and clean target signals are available for training. We propose a novel inverse problem solver based on Unbalanced Optimal Transport, called Unbalanced Optimal Transport Map for Inverse Problems (UOTIP). Our method formulates the reconstruction task, predicting clean target signals from noisy measurements, as learning a UOT Map from noisy measurement distribution to clean signal distribution by incorporating a likelihood-based cost function. By relaxing the exact marginal constraint, the UOT framework provides key advantages to our model: robustness to multi-level observation noise, adaptability to class imbalance between noisy and clean datasets, and generalizability to diverse noise-type scenarios. Furthermore, we theoretically demonstrate that incorporating a quadratic cost term ensures the existence and uniqueness of the transport map by satisfying the twist condition, even for ill-posed inverse problems. Our experiments demonstrate that UOTIP achieves state-of-the-art performance on unpaired image inverse problem benchmarks, across linear and nonlinear inverse problems.
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spellingShingle UOTIP: Unbalanced Optimal Transport Map for Unpaired Inverse Problems
Lee, Donggyu
Lee, Taekyung
Choi, Jaewoong
Machine Learning
We investigate unpaired image inverse problems, a challenging setting where only independent, non-paired sets of noisy measurements and clean target signals are available for training. We propose a novel inverse problem solver based on Unbalanced Optimal Transport, called Unbalanced Optimal Transport Map for Inverse Problems (UOTIP). Our method formulates the reconstruction task, predicting clean target signals from noisy measurements, as learning a UOT Map from noisy measurement distribution to clean signal distribution by incorporating a likelihood-based cost function. By relaxing the exact marginal constraint, the UOT framework provides key advantages to our model: robustness to multi-level observation noise, adaptability to class imbalance between noisy and clean datasets, and generalizability to diverse noise-type scenarios. Furthermore, we theoretically demonstrate that incorporating a quadratic cost term ensures the existence and uniqueness of the transport map by satisfying the twist condition, even for ill-posed inverse problems. Our experiments demonstrate that UOTIP achieves state-of-the-art performance on unpaired image inverse problem benchmarks, across linear and nonlinear inverse problems.
title UOTIP: Unbalanced Optimal Transport Map for Unpaired Inverse Problems
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21094