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Laurenz Nagler

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preprint2026arXiv

Product-of-Gaussian-Mixture Diffusion Models for Joint Nonlinear MRI Reconstruction

Recently, diffusion models have attracted considerable attention for magnetic resonance image reconstruction due to their high sample quality. However, most existing methods rely on large networks with opaque time-conditioning mechanisms, and require offline coil sensitivity estimation. This results in limited interpretability of the reconstruction process and reduced flexibility in the acquisition setup. To address these limitations, we jointly reconstruct the image and the coil sensitivities by combining the parameter-efficient product-of-Gaussian-mixture diffusion model as an image prior with a classical smoothness prior on the coil sensitivities. The proposed method is fast and robust to both contrast and anatomical distribution shifts as well as changing k-space trajectories. Finally, we propose a more expressive parameterization of the image prior which improves results in denoising and magnetic resonance image reconstruction.

preprint2026arXiv

Time-Inhomogeneous Preconditioned Langevin Dynamics

Langevin sampling from distributions of the form $p(x) \propto \exp(-Ψ(x))$ faces two major challenges: (global) mode coverage and (local) mode exploration. The first challenge is particularly relevant for multi-modal distributions with disjoint modes, whereas the second arises when the potential $Ψ$ exhibits diverse and ill-conditioned local mode geometry. To address these challenges, a common approach is to precondition Langevin dynamics with problem-specific information, such as the sample covariance or the local curvature of $Ψ$. However, existing preconditioner choices inherently involve a trade-off between global mode coverage and local mode exploration, and no prior method resolves both simultaneously. To overcome this limitation, we propose the TIPreL, which introduces a time- and position-dependent preconditioner. This design effectively addresses both challenges mentioned above within a single framework. We establish convergence of the resulting dynamics in the Wasserstein-2 distance both in continuous time and for a tamed Euler discretization. In particular, our analysis extends the existing state of the art by proving convergence under time- and space-dependent diffusion coefficients, and only locally Lipschitz drifts, which has not been covered by prior work. Finally, we experimentally compare TIPreL with competing preconditioning schemes on a two-dimensional, severely ill-posed example and on a Bayesian logistic regression task in higher dimensions, confirming the efficiency of the proposed method.