eess.IVSep 25, 2026

Awaken, Then Scale: Tiny Adaptation for MRI Reconstruction

Authors: Mohammed Wattad, Tamir Shor, Alexander M. Bronstein

Organizations: Faculty of Computer Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Abstract

Dormant Awakening (DA) specializes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction model by fitting a small set of zero weights to one labeled slice. Across fourteen U-shaped convolutional network (U-Net) and vision transformer (ViT) sources, fitting 1,004 or 10,560 weights gives mean peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) gains of .430 and .509 dB. We analyze how scaling the fitted output correction changes evaluation PSNR, then use the calibration correction size to cap changes on new images. The cap bounds changes in root mean squared error (RMSE) relative to the source without an evaluation reference. At 10% adaptation budget, we compare fixed halving and dynamic capping for DA, unrestricted sparse adaptation and low-rank adaptation (LoRA). The controls increase both measured calibration-evaluation correlations across all six tested architecture-adapter settings. Experiments concern one constructed fastMRI-to-M4Raw shift with fixed source checkpoints and participant panels.

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