Bounding Global and Local Compression Error of Signal Parameterizations

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Quang Luong Nhat, Fridovich-Keil, Sara
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author Nguyen, Quang Luong Nhat
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
author_facet Nguyen, Quang Luong Nhat
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
contents Differentiable signal parameterizations such as implicit neural representations (INRs) and hybrid models are increasingly central to computational imaging, yet principled tools for evaluating reconstruction fidelity at finite model size remain limited when ground truth is unavailable. We introduce a framework for predicting the reconstruction error of compressive signal parameterizations, yielding non-asymptotic, signal-specific bounds that are both theoretically sound and efficiently computable without access to the ground truth signal. Specifically, we prove that when parameterization-based compression satisfies certain natural properties, the compression error at any compression level is bounded by a simple scaled difference between model predictions at different compression levels. We verify these properties for representative model families including interpolated grids, Fourier feature networks, multi-resolution hash encodings, and tensor factorizations, and show empirically that the resulting worst-case guarantees can be efficiently adapted into signal-specific error predictors that are tight and generalizable. Across direct fitting of synthetic and natural signals, and inverse problems including radiance field and MRI reconstruction, our method closely tracks global error curves and yields informative local error heatmaps without ground-truth access. Code is available at https://github.com/voilalab/global_error_bound.
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spellingShingle Bounding Global and Local Compression Error of Signal Parameterizations
Nguyen, Quang Luong Nhat
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
Image and Video Processing
Differentiable signal parameterizations such as implicit neural representations (INRs) and hybrid models are increasingly central to computational imaging, yet principled tools for evaluating reconstruction fidelity at finite model size remain limited when ground truth is unavailable. We introduce a framework for predicting the reconstruction error of compressive signal parameterizations, yielding non-asymptotic, signal-specific bounds that are both theoretically sound and efficiently computable without access to the ground truth signal. Specifically, we prove that when parameterization-based compression satisfies certain natural properties, the compression error at any compression level is bounded by a simple scaled difference between model predictions at different compression levels. We verify these properties for representative model families including interpolated grids, Fourier feature networks, multi-resolution hash encodings, and tensor factorizations, and show empirically that the resulting worst-case guarantees can be efficiently adapted into signal-specific error predictors that are tight and generalizable. Across direct fitting of synthetic and natural signals, and inverse problems including radiance field and MRI reconstruction, our method closely tracks global error curves and yields informative local error heatmaps without ground-truth access. Code is available at https://github.com/voilalab/global_error_bound.
title Bounding Global and Local Compression Error of Signal Parameterizations
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00126