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Optimal transport has recently started to be successfully employed to define misfit or loss functions in inverse problems. However, it is a problem intrinsically defined for positive (probability) measures and therefore strategies are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Gabriele Todeschi , Ludovic Métivier , Jean-Marie Mirebeau

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Guillaume Bal , Francois Monard

In a medium where the dielectric permittivity is perturbed in the presence of an acoustic wave, optical scattering generates frequency-shifted light. In this paper we consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Francis J. Chung , Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland

We consider a compressed sensing problem in which both the measurement and the sparsifying systems are assumed to be frames (not necessarily tight) of the underlying Hilbert space of signals, which may be finite or infinite dimensional. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Giovanni S. Alberti , Matteo Santacesaria

This work studies the inverse boundary problem for the two photon absorption radiative transport equation. We show that the absorption coefficients and scattering coefficients can be uniquely determined from the \emph{albedo} operator. If…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Plamen Stefanov , Yimin Zhong

Study of a simple single-trace transmission example shows how an extended source formulation of full-waveform inversion can produce an optimization problem without spurious local minima ("cycle skipping"), hence efficiently solvable via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 William W. Symes , Huiyi Chen , Susan E. Minkoff

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the scattering coefficient of a simple radiative transport equation (RTE) used to model light propagation inside a scattering medium. To do so, we extract information from the second term in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Francis Chung , Faith Hensley

We consider an inverse source problem for partially coherent light propagating in the Fresnel regime. The data is the coherence of the field measured away from the source. The reconstruction is based on a minimum residue formulation, which…

The study of the paper mainly focusses on recovering the dissipative parameter in a cascade system coupling a bilaplacian operator to a heat equation from final time measured data via quasi-solution based optimization. The coefficient…

Most inverse problems from physical sciences are formulated as PDE-constrained optimization problems. This involves identifying unknown parameters in equations by optimizing the model to generate PDE solutions that closely match measured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Qin Li , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

This paper is concerned with an inverse moving point source problem in electromagnetics. The aim is to reconstruct the moving orbit from the tangential components of magnetic fields taken at a finite number of observation points. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Minghui Li , Guanghui Hu , Yue Zhao

Inverse problems involve making inference about unknown parameters of a physical process using observational data. This paper investigates an important class of inverse problems -- the estimation of the initial condition of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-09 Xiao Liu , Kyongmin Yeo

We propose an image restoration algorithm that can control the perceptual quality and/or the mean square error (MSE) of any pre-trained model, trading one over the other at test time. Our algorithm is few-shot: Given about a dozen images…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Theo Adrai , Guy Ohayon , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

This paper explores the reconstruction of a space-dependent parameter in inverse diffusion problems, proposing a shape-optimization-based approach. We consider a Robin boundary condition, physically motivated in diffuse optical tomography…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Manabu Machida , Hirofumi Notsu , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

Inverse problems are crucial for many applications in science, engineering and medicine that involve data assimilation, design, and imaging. Their solution infers the parameters or latent states of a complex system from noisy data and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-06 Lucas Amoudruz , Sergey Litvinov , Costas Papadimitriou , Petros Koumoutsakos

A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

Compressed sensing allows for the recovery of sparse signals from few measurements, whose number is proportional to the sparsity of the unknown signal, up to logarithmic factors. The classical theory typically considers either random linear…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Giovanni S. Alberti , Alessandro Felisi , Matteo Santacesaria , S. Ivan Trapasso

We establish results for the injectivity and injectivity modulo gauge of certain inverse source problems in transport on a simply connected domain with variable index of refraction inducing a 'simple geometry'. The model given by radiative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Guillaume Bal , François Monard

We study forward and inverse problems for a semilinear radiative transport model where the absorption coefficient depends on the angular average of the transport solution. Our first result is the well-posedness theory for the transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kui Ren , Yimin Zhong

The inverse problem methodology is a commonly-used framework in the sciences for parameter estimation and inference. It is typically performed by fitting a mathematical model to noisy experimental data. There are two significant sources of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-26 John T. Nardini , D. M. Bortz