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A New Convergence Analysis of Plug-and-Play Proximal Gradient Descent Under Prior Mismatch

Published: January 14, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.09831v1

By: Guixian Xu, Jinglai Li, Junqi Tang

In this work, we provide a new convergence theory for plug-and-play proximal gradient descent (PnP-PGD) under prior mismatch where the denoiser is trained on a different data distribution to the inference task at hand. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first convergence proof of PnP-PGD under prior mismatch. Compared with the existing theoretical results for PnP algorithms, our new results removed the need for several restrictive and unverifiable assumptions.

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