With exact data , the iteration error obeys
The source condition for quadratic regularization excludes any null space component. Using its singular system of a compact operator coefficients,
By Bernoulli's inequality, . Also . Therefore
Summing the squared coefficients and using Bessel inequality yields
This is an a priori error rate from the source condition for quadratic regularization, with constant independent of .
It is sufficient that
and that the stopping rule obey
For example, works.
For exact data , each factor tends to zero. The Picard criterion makes square summable, while is uniformly bounded. The dominated convergence theorem on the resulting series yields .
For noisy data with , the filter representation gives
Indeed, when , Bernoulli's inequality gives ; when , the quotient is uniformly bounded because . Hence the triangle inequality gives
which proves that early-stopped Landweber iteration is a convergent regularization of an inverse problem.
Replace the same last vectors by . Applying part a to each independent Gaussian coordinate shows that the probability its contaminated coordinate median exceeds is at least . Independence across coordinates and Bernoulli's inequality give
For sufficiently large as a function of and , the last expression is at least . On this event,
which proves the stated lower bound for the supremum over adversarial perturbations.