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We consider primal-dual mixed finite element methods for the solution of the elliptic Cauchy problem, or other related data assimilation problems. The method has a local conservation property. We derive a priori error estimates using known…

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Machine learning can significantly improve performance for decision-making under uncertainty across a wide range of domains. However, ensuring robustness guarantees requires well-calibrated uncertainty estimates, which can be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Christopher Yeh , Nicolas Christianson , Alan Wu , Adam Wierman , Yisong Yue

We propose an efficient and flexible method for solving Abel integral equation of the first kind, frequently appearing in many fields of astrophysics, physics, chemistry, and applied sciences. This equation represents an ill-posed problem,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-26 I. I. Antokhin

Building on the successes of local kernel methods for approximating the solutions to partial differential equations (PDE) and the evaluation of definite integrals (quadrature/cubature), a local estimate of the error in such approximations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Jonah A. Reeger

The use of model order reduction techniques in combination with ensemble-based methods for estimating the state of systems described by nonlinear partial differential equations has been of great interest in recent years in the data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Francesco A. B. Silva , Cecilia Pagliantini , Karen Veroy

It is well-known in practice, that L^1 data fitting leads to improved robustness compared to standard L^2 data fitting. However, it is unclear whether resulting algorithms will perform as well in case of regular data without outliers. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Kristina Bätz , Frank Werner

We provide an a priori analysis of collocation methods for solving elliptic boundary value problems. They begin with information in the form of point values of the data and utilize only this information to numerically approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Andrea Bonito , Ronald DeVore , Guergana Petrova , Jonathan W. Siegel

This paper is concerned with the solution of large-scale linear discrete ill-posed problems with error-contaminated data. Tikhonov regularization is a popular approach to determine meaningful approximate solutions of such problems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Guangxin Huang , Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

Data assimilation is a method of uncertainty quantification to estimate the hidden true state by updating the prediction owing to model dynamics with observation data. As a prediction model, we consider a class of nonlinear dynamical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Kota Takeda , Takashi Sakajo

The facility location problem (FLP) is a classical combinatorial optimization challenge aimed at strategically laying out facilities to maximize their accessibility. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning method tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hongyuan Su , Yu Zheng , Jingtao Ding , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Most image restoration problems are ill-conditioned or ill-posed and hence involve significant uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty is crucial for reliably interpreting experimental results, particularly when reconstructed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jasper M. Everink , Bernardin Tamo Amougou , Marcelo Pereyra

In recent years, the so-called `direct data-driven control' has been a topic of intense research, and it is expected that it will become prominent in future complex dynamical systems control. Within this framework, regularization not only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Shuyuan Zhang , Zheming Wang , Raphael M. Jungers

This paper develops a discrete data-driven approach for solving the inverse source problem of the wave equation with final time measurements. Focusing on the $L^2$-Tikhonov regularization method, we analyze its convergence under two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

The numerical solution of linear discrete ill-posed problems typically requires regularization, i.e., replacement of the available ill-conditioned problem by a nearby better conditioned one. The most popular regularization methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

Long maturity options or a wide class of hybrid products are evaluated using a local volatility type modelling for the asset price S(t) with a stochastic interest rate r(t). The calibration of the local volatility function is usually…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-03-13 Julien Hok , Shih-Hau Tan

Despite extensive research on neural network calibration, existing methods typically apply global transformations that treat all predictions uniformly, overlooking the heterogeneous reliability of individual predictions. Furthermore, the…

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In this paper we consider the training of single hidden layer neural networks by pseudoinversion, which, in spite of its popularity, is sometimes affected by numerical instability issues. Regularization is known to be effective in such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Rossella Cancelliere , Mario Gai , Patrick Gallinari , Luca Rubini

The calibration of a local volatility models to a given set of option prices is a classical problem of mathematical finance. It was considered in multiple papers where various solutions were proposed. In this paper an extension of the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-08-19 Andrey Itkin , Alexander Lipton

The Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), as a fundamental data assimilation approach, has been widely used in many fields of the sciences and engineering. When the state variable is of high dimensional accompanied with high resolution…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-18 Shouxia Wang , Hao-Xuan Sun , Song Xi Chen

Uncertain optimization problems with decision dependent information discovery allow the decision maker to control the timing of information discovery, in contrast to the classic multistage setting where uncertain parameters are revealed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Rosario Paradiso , Angelos Georghiou , Said Dabia , Denise Tönissen