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In this paper, we study a class of bilevel programming problem where the inner objective function is strongly convex. More specifically, under some mile assumptions on the partial derivatives of both inner and outer objective functions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Saeed Ghadimi , Mengdi Wang

Bayesian inference with deep generative prior has received considerable interest for solving imaging inverse problems in many scientific and engineering fields. The selection of the prior distribution is learned from, and therefore an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-30 Jiayu Qian , Yuanyuan Liu , Jingya Yang , Qingping Zhou

In this work, we describe a new data-driven approach for inverse problems that exploits technologies from machine learning, in particular autoencoder network structures. We consider a paired autoencoder framework, where two autoencoders are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Emma Hart , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

The numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on surfaces, along with the associated geodesic distance, has a wide range of applications. Compared to Euclidean distance computation, these tasks are more complex due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Hailiang Liu , Laura Zinnel

The linear transport equation allows to advect level-set functions to represent moving sharp interfaces in multiphase flows as zero level-sets. A recent development in computational fluid dynamics is to modify the linear transport equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Dieter Bothe , Mathis Fricke , Kohei Soga

The classical level set method, which represents the boundary of the unknown geometry as the zero-level set of a function, has been shown to be very effective in solving shape optimization problems. The present work addresses the issue of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Oleg Alexandrov , Fadil Santosa

A general shape identification inverse problem is studied in a Bayesian framework. This problem requires the determination of the unknown shape of a domain in the Euclidean space from finite-dimensional observation data with some Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Hajime Kawakami

In this work, we propose a Bayesian thinning algorithm for recovering weighted point source functions in the heat equation from boundary flux observations. The major challenge in the classical Bayesian framework lies in constructing…

Computation · Statistics 2025-09-19 Zhiliang Deng , Chen Li , Xiaomei Yang

This work introduces a sampling method capable of solving Bayesian inverse problems in function space. It does not assume the log-concavity of the likelihood, meaning that it is compatible with nonlinear inverse problems. The method…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-27 Lorenzo Baldassari , Ali Siahkoohi , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna , Maarten V. de Hoop

Consider the problem of finding an optimal value of some objective functional subject to constraints over numerical domain. This type of problem arises frequently in practical engineering tasks. Nowdays almost all general methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Sergey Karpukhin

We consider a regularization concept for the solution of ill--posed operator equations, where the operator is composed of a continuous and a discontinuous operator. A particular application is level set regularization, where we develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-16 F. Frühauf , O. Scherzer , A. Leitao

Neural network systems describe complex mappings that can be very difficult to understand. In this paper, we study the inverse problem of determining the input images that get mapped to specific neural network classes. Ultimately, we expect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Rebecca Pattichis , Sebastian Janampa , Constantinos S. Pattichis , Marios S. Pattichis

Recent advances in reconstruction methods for inverse problems leverage powerful data-driven models, e.g., deep neural networks. These techniques have demonstrated state-of-the-art performances for several imaging tasks, but they often do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Riccardo Barbano , Chen Zhang , Simon Arridge , Bangti Jin

Seeking the convex hull of an object is a very fundamental problem arising from various tasks. In this work, we propose two variational convex hull models using level set representation for 2-dimensional data. The first one is an exact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Lingfeng Li , Shousheng Luo , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jiang Yang

We study the inverse problem of recovering the order and the diffusion coefficient of an elliptic fractional partial differential equation from a finite number of noisy observations of the solution. We work in a Bayesian framework and show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

We demonstrate how path integrals often used in problems of theoretical physics can be adapted to provide a machinery for performing Bayesian inference in function spaces. Such inference comes about naturally in the study of inverse…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-07-23 Joshua C Chang , Van Savage , Tom Chou

Two methods of level set type are proposed for solving the Cauchy problem for an elliptic equation. Convergence and stability results for both methods are proven, characterizing the iterative methods as regularization methods for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 A. Leitao , M. Marques Alves

We investigate the inverse scattering problem for tracking the location and orientation of a moving scatterer using a single incident field. We solve the problem by adopting the optimization approach with the objective function defined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Woojoo Lee , Mikyoung Lim , Sangwoo Kang

For many applications, we need to use techniques to represent convex shapes and objects. In this work, we use level set method to represent shapes and find a necessary and sufficient condition on the level set function to guarantee the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Shousheng Luo , Xue-cheng Tai

We introduce and analyze a lower envelope method (LEM) for the tracking of interfaces motion in multiphase problems. The main idea of the method is to define the phases as the regions where the lower envelope of a set of functions coincides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Antoine Laurain