arxivstat.MLcs.LG2026-07-23
Prior laundering: learned priors with inherited, undetectable overconfidence
Ali Siahkoohi, Sina Alemohammad
Learned generative priors are increasingly used for ill-posed Bayesian inverse problems, their posterior uncertainty treated as earned from data. But training one requires truths, scarce in seismic and medical imaging, so the recourse is an archive of legacy reconstructions---pri…