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Bayesian inverse problems use data to update a prior probability distribution on uncertain parameter values to a posterior distribution. Such problems arise in many structural engineering applications, but computational solution of Bayesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jakob Scheffels , Elizabeth Qian , Iason Papaioannou , Elisabeth Ullmann

This paper is concerned with time domain forward scattering and inverse scattering problems with a single moving point source as the emitter. Approximate solutions are provided for the forward scattering problem with a moving emitter.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Yu Sun , Bo Chen , Peng Gao , Qiuyi Li , Yao Sun

Generative learning generates high dimensional data based on low dimensional conditions, also called prompts. Therefore, generative learning algorithms are eligible for solving (Bayesian) inverse problems. In this article we compare a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Patrick Krüger , Patrick Materne , Werner Krebs , Hanno Gottschalk

We consider the problem of estimating rare event probabilities, focusing on systems whose evolution is governed by differential equations with uncertain input parameters. If the system dynamics is expensive to compute, standard sampling…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-05 Siddhant Wahal , George Biros

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of determining the shape of penetrable periodic scatterers from scattered field data. We propose a sampling method with a novel indicator function for solving this inverse problem. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Kale Stahl , Trung Truong

We develop a novel wave imaging scheme for reconstructing the shape of an inhomogeneous scatterer and we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem as a prototype model for our study. There exists a wealth of reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Xianchao Wang , Yuliang Wang

This work addresses inverse linear optimization where the goal is to infer the unknown cost vector of a linear program. Specifically, we consider the data-driven setting in which the available data are noisy observations of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Rishabh Gupta , Qi Zhang

This work proposes a novel method through which local information about the target density can be used to construct an efficient importance sampler. The backbone of the proposed method is the Incremental Mixture Importance Sampling (IMIS)…

Computation · Statistics 2016-11-22 Matteo Fasiolo , Flávio Eler de Melo , Simon Maskell

One of the main computational drawbacks in the application of 3-D iterative inversion techniques is the requirement of solving the field quantities for the updated contrast in every iteration. In this paper, the 3-D electromagnetic inverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Shilong Sun , Bert Jan Kooij , Alexander G. Yarovoy

A Bayesian approach to nonlinear inverse problems is considered where the unknown quantity (input) is a random spatial field. The forward model is complex and non-linear, therefore computationally expensive. An emulator-based methodology is…

Applications · Statistics 2021-05-11 Anirban Mondal , Bani Mallick

Low-cost air pollution sensors, offering hyper-local characterization of pollutant concentrations, are becoming increasingly prevalent in environmental and public health research. However, low-cost air pollution data can be noisy, biased by…

Applications · Statistics 2023-02-21 Claire Heffernan , Roger Peng , Drew R. Gentner , Kirsten Koehler , Abhirup Datta

We propose a modification of the improved cross entropy (iCE) method to enhance its performance for network reliability assessment. The iCE method performs a transition from the nominal density to the optimal importance sampling (IS)…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-18 Jianpeng Chan , Iason Papaioannou , Daniel Straub

We present a series of new open source deep learning algorithms to accelerate Bayesian full waveform point source inversion of microseismic events. Inferring the joint posterior probability distribution of moment tensor components and…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 A. Spurio Mancini , D. Piras , A. M. G. Ferreira , M. P. Hobson , B. Joachimi

The inefficiency of using an unbiased estimator in a Monte Carlo procedure can be quantified using an inefficiency constant, equal to the product of the variance of the estimator and its mean computational cost. We develop methods for…

Computation · Statistics 2016-01-08 Tomasz Badowski

We consider the efficient use of an approximation within Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), with subsequent importance sampling (IS) correction of the Markov chain inexact output, leading to asymptotically exact inference. We detail…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-15 Jordan Franks

In this paper, we study the high-resolution channel estimation problem for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communications, which is a prerequisite to guarantee…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 C. Jia , J. Cheng , H. Gao , W. Xu

The Bayesian approach to Inverse Problems relies predominantly on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for posterior inference. The typical nonlinear concentration of posterior measure observed in many such Inverse Problems presents severe…

Computation · Statistics 2016-02-17 Shiwei Lan , Tan Bui-Thanh , Mike Christie , Mark Girolami

Bayesian approaches are one of the primary methodologies to tackle an inverse problem in high dimensions. Such an inverse problem arises in hydrology to infer the permeability field given flow data in a porous media. It is common practice…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-02 Navid Shervani-Tabar

Sensor placement for linear inverse problems is the selection of locations to assign sensors so that the entire physical signal can be well recovered from partial observations. In this paper, we propose a fast sampling algorithm to place…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Fen Wang , Gene Cheung , Taihao Li , Ying Du , Yu-Ping Ruan

The inverse potential problem consists in determining the density of the volume potential from measurements outside the sources. Its ill-posedness is due both to the non-uniqueness of the solution and to the instability of the solution with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 P. N. Vabishchevich