Publications by Stanislas Ducotterd

Controlled learning of pointwise nonlinearities in neural-network-like architectures

Michaël Unser, Alexis Marie Frederic Goujon, Stanislas Ducotterd

We present a general variational framework for the training of freeform nonlinearities in layered computational architectures subject to some slope constraints. The regularization that we add to the traditional training loss penalizes the second-order tota ...

2025

Learning a Convex Patch-Based Synthesis Model via Deep Equilibrium

Michaël Unser, Sebastian Jonas Neumayer, Stanislas Ducotterd

We investigate the learning of a convex patch-based synthesis model for the reconstruction of images. In essence, we propose to learn a dictionary via bilevel optimization for denoising. Using implicit differentiation, we find a closed-form formula of the ...

IEEE2024

Improving Lipschitz-Constrained Neural Networks by Learning Activation Functions

Michaël Unser, Dimitris Perdios, Pakshal Narendra Bohra, Alexis Marie Frederic Goujon, Sebastian Jonas Neumayer, Stanislas Ducotterd

Lipschitz-constrained neural networks have several advantages over unconstrained ones and can be applied to a variety of problems, making them a topic of attention in the deep learning community. Unfortunately, it has been shown both theoretically and empi ...

2024

A Neural-Network-Based Convex Regularizer for Inverse Problems

Michaël Unser, Pakshal Narendra Bohra, Alexis Marie Frederic Goujon, Sebastian Jonas Neumayer, Stanislas Ducotterd

The emergence of deep-learning-based methods to solve image-reconstruction problems has enabled a significant increase in quality. Unfortunately, these new methods often lack reliability and explainability, and there is a growing interest to address these ...

2023

Data for: "A Neural-Network-Based Convex Regularizer for Inverse Problems"

Michaël Unser, Pakshal Narendra Bohra, Alexis Marie Frederic Goujon, Sebastian Jonas Neumayer, Stanislas Ducotterd

Data for: "A Neural-Network-Based Convex Regularizer for Inverse Problems". The corresponding scripts can be accessed on GitHub (https://github.com/axgoujon/convex_ridge_regularizers). The data is organized as follows: - ct_data_sets.tar.gz: contains prepr ...

Zenodo2023