Learning to optimize: A primer and a benchmark

T Chen, X Chen, W Chen, H Heaton, J Liu… - Journal of Machine …, 2022 - jmlr.org
Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging approach that leverages machine learning to
develop optimization methods, aiming at reducing the laborious iterations of hand …

Theoretical linear convergence of unfolded ISTA and its practical weights and thresholds

X Chen, J Liu, Z Wang, W Yin - Advances in Neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In recent years, unfolding iterative algorithms as neural networks has become an empirical
success in solving sparse recovery problems. However, its theoretical understanding is still …

ALISTA: Analytic weights are as good as learned weights in LISTA

J Liu, X Chen - International Conference on Learning Representations …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Deep neural networks based on unfolding an iterative algorithm, for example, LISTA
(learned iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithm), have been an empirical success for …

[PDF][PDF] Dehazegan: When image dehazing meets differential programming.

H Zhu, X Peng, V Chandrasekhar, L Li, JH Lim - IJCAI, 2018 - pengxi.me
Single image dehazing has been a classic topic in computer vision for years. Motivated by
the atmospheric scattering model, the key to satisfactory single image dehazing relies on an …

Transfer hashing: From shallow to deep

JT Zhou, H Zhao, X Peng, M Fang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One major assumption used in most existing hashing approaches is that the domain of
interest (ie, the target domain) could provide sufficient training data, either labeled or …

Image domain dual material decomposition for dual‐energy CT using butterfly network

W Zhang, H Zhang, L Wang, X Wang, X Hu… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Dual‐energy CT (DECT) has been increasingly used in imaging applications
because of its capability for material differentiation. However, material decomposition suffers …

End-to-end joint learning of natural language understanding and dialogue manager

X Yang, YN Chen, D Hakkani-Tür… - … on acoustics, speech …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural language understanding and dialogue policy learning are both essential in
conversational systems that predict the next system actions in response to a current user …

Singe image rain removal with unpaired information: A differentiable programming perspective

H Zhu, X Peng, JT Zhou, S Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Single image rain-streak removal is an extremely challenging problem due to the presence
of non-uniform rain densities in images. Previous works solve this problem using various …

Tensor rank learning in CP decomposition via convolutional neural network

M Zhou, Y Liu, Z Long, L Chen, C Zhu - Signal Processing: Image …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tensor factorization is a useful technique for capturing the high-order interactions in data
analysis. One assumption of tensor decompositions is that a predefined rank should be …

A deep network for tissue microstructure estimation using modified LSTM units

C Ye, X Li, J Chen - Medical image analysis, 2019 - Elsevier
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) offers a unique tool for noninvasively
assessing tissue microstructure. However, accurate estimation of tissue microstructure …