# get_cache_home

### deepinv.utils.get_cache_home()

Return a folder to store deepinv cache (datasets, models, etc.).

This folder can be specified by setting the environment variable `DEEPINV_CACHE_DIR`.
If `DEEPINV_CACHE_DIR` is not set, this defaults to `XDG_CACHE_HOME/deepinv` if the environment variable `XDG_CACHE_HOME` is set, otherwise to `~/.cache/deepinv`.

* **Returns:**
  pathlib Path for cache dir
* **Return type:**
  [*Path*](https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path)

## Examples using `get_cache_home`:

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<!-- thumbnail-parent-div-open --><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows you how to train various networks using adversarial training for deblurring problems. We demonstrate running training and inference using a conditional GAN (i.e. DeblurGAN), CSGM, AmbientGAN and UAIR implemented in the library, and how to simply train your own GAN by using deepinv.training.AdversarialTrainer. These examples can also be easily extended to train more complicated GANs such as CycleGAN.">![](auto_examples/adversarial-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_gan_imaging_thumb.png)

[Imaging inverse problems with adversarial networks](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/adversarial-learning/demo_gan_imaging.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Imaging inverse problems with adversarial networks</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to use DeepInverse with your own dataset.">![](auto_examples/basics/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_custom_dataset_thumb.png)

[Bring your own dataset](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/basics/demo_custom_dataset.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Bring your own dataset</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The data is taken from the 2DeteCT benchmark kiss2025benchmarking and dataset kiss20232detect, which is an industrial CT dataset of various materials acquired using a proprietary scanner from CWI (i.e. sinogram-to-image). The setup is matched exactly to kiss2025benchmarking, such that you can compare DeepInverse image reconstruction methods with the values reported in kiss2025benchmarking.">![](auto_examples/external-libraries/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_astra_2detect_thumb.png)

[Reconstruct real CT sinograms with the 2DeteCT benchmark](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/external-libraries/demo_astra_2detect.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Reconstruct real CT sinograms with the 2DeteCT benchmark</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example presents the various input/output functions provided by DeepInverse for handling medical and scientific imaging formats. We demonstrate loading and plotting from DICOM, NIfTI, ISMRMRD, PyTorch, NumPy and raster data sources.">![](auto_examples/external-libraries/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_io_thumb.png)

[Loading scientific images](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/external-libraries/demo_io.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Loading scientific images</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to denoise low-intensity STED fluorescence microscopy images of live-cell mitochondria using the pretrained foundation model deepinv.models.RAM. We load real Abberior STED microscopy data from osunavargas2025denoising, process it in batches, and visualize the results both with deepinv.utils.plot and with the interactive 3D viewer deepinv.utils.plot_napari.">![](auto_examples/external-libraries/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_microscopy_denoising_thumb.png)

[Low-intensity STED fluorescence microscopy denoising](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/external-libraries/demo_microscopy_denoising.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Low-intensity STED fluorescence microscopy denoising</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This demo reconstructs undersampled k-space data for 2D cardiac and brain MRI on:">![](auto_examples/models/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_mri_pretrained_thumb.png)

[Reconstruct undersampled k-space for cardiac and brain MRI](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/models/demo_mri_pretrained.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Reconstruct undersampled k-space for cardiac and brain MRI</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example reconstructs real prospectively undersampled multicoil brain k-space from yu2022validation.">![](auto_examples/models/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_prospective_mri_thumb.png)

[Reconstruct prospectively-undersampled raw multicoil MRI](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/models/demo_prospective_mri.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Reconstruct prospectively-undersampled raw multicoil MRI</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Single-image super-resolution (SISR) is the inverse problem of recovering a high-resolution (HR) image x from a low-resolution (LR) observation y = \\downarrow_s(x), where \\downarrow_s denotes downsampling by factor s.">![](auto_examples/models/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_super_resolution_thumb.png)

[Super-resolution with SRResNet](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/models/demo_super_resolution.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Super-resolution with SRResNet</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example provides a very simple quick start introduction to training reconstruction networks with DeepInverse for solving imaging inverse problems.">![](auto_examples/models/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_training_thumb.png)

[Training a reconstruction model](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/models/demo_training.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Training a reconstruction model</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example presents the various datasets, forward physics and models available in DeepInverse for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) problems:">![](auto_examples/physics/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_mri_tour_thumb.png)

[Tour of MRI functionality in DeepInverse](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/physics/demo_mri_tour.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Tour of MRI functionality in DeepInverse</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="In this example we demonstrate remote sensing inverse problems for multispectral satellite imaging.">![](auto_examples/physics/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_remote_sensing_thumb.png)

[Remote sensing with satellite images](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/physics/demo_remote_sensing.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Remote sensing with satellite images</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example demonstrates various geometric image transformations implemented in deepinv that can be used in Equivariant Imaging (EI) for self-supervised learning:">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_ei_transforms_thumb.png)

[Image transformations for Equivariant Imaging](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_ei_transforms.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Image transformations for Equivariant Imaging</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Equivariant splitting consists in minimizing a self-supervised loss to train a reconstruction model using measurement data only sechaud26Equivariant.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_equivariant_splitting_thumb.png)

[Self-supervised learning with Equivariant Splitting](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_equivariant_splitting.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Self-supervised learning with Equivariant Splitting</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="We demonstrate self-supervised (blind) denoising of a low-field MRI scan without ground truth data.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_lowfieldmri_thumb.png)

[Low-field MRI denoising without ground truth](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_lowfieldmri.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Low-field MRI denoising without ground truth</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows you how to train a reconstruction network for an inpainting inverse problem on a fully self-supervised way, i.e., using measurement data only.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_multioperator_imaging_thumb.png)

[Self-supervised learning from incomplete measurements of multiple operators.](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_multioperator_imaging.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Self-supervised learning from incomplete measurements of multiple operators.</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows you how to train a denoiser network in a fully self-supervised way, i.e., using noisy images only via the Neighbor2Neighbor loss, which exploits the local correlation of natural images.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_n2n_denoising_thumb.png)

[Self-supervised denoising with the Neighbor2Neighbor loss.](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_n2n_denoising.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Self-supervised denoising with the Neighbor2Neighbor loss.</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows you how to train a denoiser network in a fully self-supervised way, using noisy images only via the Generalized Recorrupted2Recorrupted (GR2R) loss monroy2025generalized, which exploits knowledge about the noise distribution. You can change the noise distribution by selecting from predefined noise models such as Gaussian, Poisson, and Gamma noise.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_r2r_denoising_thumb.png)

[Self-supervised denoising with the Generalized R2R loss.](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_r2r_denoising.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Self-supervised denoising with the Generalized R2R loss.</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="We demonstrate scan-specific self-supervised learning, that is, learning to reconstruct MRI scans from a single accelerated sample without ground truth.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_scan_specific_thumb.png)

[Scan-specific zero-shot SSDU for MRI](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_scan_specific.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Scan-specific zero-shot SSDU for MRI</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="We demonstrate self-supervised learning with measurement splitting, to train a denoiser network on the MNIST dataset. The physics here is noisy computed tomography, as is the case in Noise2Inverse hendriksen2020noise2inverse. Note this example can also be easily applied to undersampled multicoil MRI as is the case in SSDU yaman2020self.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_splitting_loss_thumb.png)

[Self-supervised learning with measurement splitting](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_splitting_loss.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Self-supervised learning with measurement splitting</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows you how to train a denoiser network in a fully self-supervised way, i.e., using noisy images only via the SURE loss, which exploits knowledge about the noise distribution.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_sure_denoising_thumb.png)

[Self-supervised denoising with the SURE loss.](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_sure_denoising.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Self-supervised denoising with the SURE loss.</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows you how to train a denoiser network in a fully self-supervised way, i.e., using noisy images with unknown noise level only via the UNSURE loss, which is introduced by tachella2024unsure.">![](auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_unsure_thumb.png)

[Self-supervised denoising with the UNSURE loss.](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/self-supervised-learning/demo_unsure.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Self-supervised denoising with the UNSURE loss.</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to implement the LISTA algorithm gregor2010learning, for a compressed sensing problem. In a nutshell, LISTA is an unfolded proximal gradient algorithm involving a soft-thresholding proximal operator with learnable thresholding parameters.">![](auto_examples/unfolded/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_LISTA_thumb.png)

[Learned Iterative Soft-Thresholding Algorithm (LISTA) for compressed sensing](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/unfolded/demo_LISTA.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Learned Iterative Soft-Thresholding Algorithm (LISTA) for compressed sensing</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to implement a learned unrolled proximal gradient descent algorithm with a custom prior function. The custom prior in use is The algorithm is trained on a dataset of compressed sensing measurements of MNIST images.">![](auto_examples/unfolded/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_custom_prior_unfolded_thumb.png)

[Learned iterative custom prior](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/unfolded/demo_custom_prior_unfolded.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Learned iterative custom prior</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is a simple example to show how to use vanilla unfolded Plug-and-Play. The DnCNN denoiser and the algorithm parameters (stepsize, regularization parameters) are trained jointly. For simplicity, we show how to train the algorithm on a  small dataset. For optimal results, use a larger dataset.">![](auto_examples/unfolded/images/thumb/sphx_glr_demo_vanilla_unfolded_thumb.png)

[Vanilla Unfolded algorithm for super-resolution](https://deepinv.org/auto_examples/unfolded/demo_vanilla_unfolded.html.md)

  <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Vanilla Unfolded algorithm for super-resolution</div>
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