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In Bayesian inverse problems, it is common to consider several hyperparameters that define the prior and the noise model that must be estimated from the data. In particular, we are interested in linear inverse problems with additive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Julianne Chung , Scot M. Miller , Malena Sabate Landman , Arvind K. Saibaba

We show that any $n\times m$ matrix $A$ can be approximated in operator norm by a submatrix with a number of columns of order the stable rank of $A$. This improves on existing results by removing an extra logarithmic factor in the size of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Omer Friedland , Pierre Youssef

We study strongly measurable random bounded operators on separable Hilbert spaces and analyze two simple iterations driven by independent random positive contractions. The first, a Kaczmarz-like iteration, converges in mean square and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 James Tian

This paper is concerned with an inverse scattering problem for the time-harmonic elastic wave equation with a random potential. Interpreted as a distribution, the potential is assumed to be a microlocally isotropic generalized Gaussian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

In this paper, we consider an unconstrained optimization model where the objective is a sum of a large number of possibly nonconvex functions, though overall the objective is assumed to be smooth and convex. Our bid to solving such model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Xi Chen , Bo Jiang , Tianyi Lin , Shuzhong Zhang

Numerical integral operators of convolution type form the basis of most wave-equation-based methods for processing and imaging of seismic data. As several of these methods require the solution of an inverse problem, multiple forward and…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-11-24 Matteo Ravasi , Ivan Vasconcelos

We introduce and compare new compression approaches to obtain regularized solutions of large linear systems which are commonly encountered in large scale inverse problems. We first describe how to approximate matrix vector operations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Sergey Voronin , Dylan Mikesell , Guust Nolet

In computational inverse problems, it is common that a detailed and accurate forward model is approximated by a computationally less challenging substitute. The model reduction may be necessary to meet constraints in computing time when…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-14 Daniela Calvetti , Matthew M. Dunlop , Erkki Somersalo , Andrew M. Stuart

The affine inverse eigenvalue problem consists of identifying a real symmetric matrix with a prescribed set of eigenvalues in an affine space. Due to its ubiquity in applications, various instances of the problem have been widely studied in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Utkan Candogan , Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

This work introduces the nested-set Hessian approximation, a second-order approximation method that can be used in any derivative-free optimization routine that requires such information. It is built on the foundation of the generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Warren Hare , Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc , Chayne Planiden

We consider sampling from a Gibbs distribution by evolving finitely many particles. We propose a preconditioned version of a recently proposed noise-free sampling method, governed by approximating the score function with the numerically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Hong Ye Tan , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We consider parameterized variational inverse problems that are constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs). We seek to efficiently compute the solution of the inverse problem when auxiliary model parameters, which appear in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Joseph Hart , Alen Alexanderian , Bart van Bloemen Waanders

Operator learning, the approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces using machine learning, has gained increasing research attention in recent years. Approximate operators, learned from data, can serve as efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ben Adcock , Michael Griebel , Gregor Maier

A new algorithm to approximate Hermitian matrices by positive semidefinite Hermitian matrices based on modified Cholesky decompositions is presented. In contrast to existing algorithms, this algorithm allows to specify bounds on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Joscha Reimer

The aim of this paper is twofold: In the first part, we leverage recent results on scenario design to develop randomized algorithmsfor approximating the image set of a nonlinear mapping, that is, a (possibly noisy) mapping of a set via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fabrizio Dabbene , Didier Henrion , Constantino Lagoa , Pavel Shcherbakov

Optimized, necessary and sufficient conditions for the identification of the Schmidt number will be derived in terms of general Hermitian operators. These conditions apply to arbitrary mixed quantum states. The optimization procedure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 J. Sperling , W. Vogel

Regularizing the input gradient has shown to be effective in promoting the robustness of neural networks. The regularization of the input's Hessian is therefore a natural next step. A key challenge here is the computational complexity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Waleed Mustafa , Robert A. Vandermeulen , Marius Kloft

The paper introduces a novel, hierarchical preconditioner based on nested dissection and hierarchical matrix compression. The preconditioner is intended for continuous and discontinuous Galerkin formulations of elliptic problems. We exploit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Boris Bonev , Jan S. Hesthaven

We apply a linear Bayesian model to seismic tomography, a high-dimensional inverse problem in geophysics. The objective is to estimate the three-dimensional structure of the earth's interior from data measured at its surface. Since this…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-11 Ran Zhang , Claudia Czado , Karin Sigloch

The matrix logarithm, when applied to Hermitian positive definite matrices, is concave with respect to the positive semidefinite order. This operator concavity property leads to numerous concavity and convexity results for other matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Hamza Fawzi , James Saunderson , Pablo A. Parrilo