Total variation multiscale estimators for linear inverse problems
2020 | journal article; research paper. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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- Authors
- del Alamo Ruiz, M.; Munk, Axel
- Abstract
- Abstract Even though the statistical theory of linear inverse problems is a well-studied topic, certain relevant cases remain open. Among these is the estimation of functions of bounded variation ($), meaning ^1$ functions on a ehBdimensional domain whose weak first derivatives are finite Radon measures. The estimation of $ functions is relevant in many applications, since it involves minimal smoothness assumptions and gives simplified, interpretable cartoonized reconstructions. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for estimating $ functions in an inverse problem setting and provide theoretical guaranties by showing that the proposed estimator is minimax optimal up to logarithms with respect to the ^qehBrisk, for any \in [1,\infty )$. This is to the best of our knowledge the first convergence result for $ functions in inverse problems in dimension \geq 2$, and it extends the results of Donoho (1995, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal., 2, 101–126) in =1$. Furthermore, our analysis unravels a novel regime for large $ in which the minimax rate is slower than ^{-1/(d+2\beta +2)}$, where $\beta$ is the degree of ill-posedness: our analysis shows that this slower rate arises from the low smoothness of $ functions. The proposed estimator combines variational regularization techniques with the wavelet-vaguelette decomposition of operators.
- Issue Date
- 2020
- Journal
- Information and Inference
- Project
- RTG 2088: Research Training Group 2088 Discovering structure in complex data: Statistics meets Optimization and Inverse Problems
- ISSN
- 2049-8764
- eISSN
- 2049-8772
- Language
- English