Provably Contractive and High-Quality Denoisers for Convergent Restoration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26168v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:35:55 GMT
• Title: Provably Contractive and High-Quality Denoisers for Convergent Restoration
• Abstract summary: Existing convolutional and attention-based networks lack stability guarantees under minor shifts in input.<n>We develop provably contractive (global Lipschitz $ 1$) denoiser networks that considerably reduce this gap.<n>Our results show that enforcing strict Lipschitz control does not inherently degrade output quality.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Image restoration, the recovery of clean images from degraded measurements, has applications in various domains like surveillance, defense, and medical imaging. Despite achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) restoration performance, existing convolutional and attention-based networks lack stability guarantees under minor shifts in input, exposing a robustness accuracy trade-off. We develop provably contractive (global Lipschitz $< 1$) denoiser networks that considerably reduce this gap. Our design composes proximal layers obtained from unfolding techniques, with Lipschitz-controlled convolutional refinements. By contractivity, our denoiser guarantees that input perturbations of strength $\|δ\|\le\varepsilon$ induce at most $\varepsilon$ change at the output, while strong baselines such as DnCNN and Restormer can exhibit larger deviations under the same perturbations. On image denoising, the proposed model is competitive with unconstrained SOTA denoisers, reporting the tightest gap for a provably 1-Lipschitz model and establishing that such gaps are indeed achievable by contractive denoisers. Moreover, the proposed denoisers act as strong regularizers for image restoration that provably effect convergence in Plug-and-Play algorithms. Our results show that enforcing strict Lipschitz control does not inherently degrade output quality, challenging a common assumption in the literature and moving the field toward verifiable and stable vision models. Codes and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/SHUBHI1553/Contractive-Denoisers

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