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Algorithms that solve zero-sum games, multi-objective agent objectives, or, more generally, variational inequality (VI) problems are notoriously unstable on general problems. Owing to the increasing need for solving such problems in machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-15 Tatjana Chavdarova , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Michael I. Jordan

We consider the optimization of an uncertain objective over continuous and multi-dimensional decision spaces in problems in which we are only provided with observational data. We propose a novel algorithmic framework that is tractable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Dimitris Bertsimas , Christopher McCord

In modern data science, it is often not enough to obtain only a data-driven model with a good prediction quality. On the contrary, it is more interesting to understand the properties of the model, which parts could be replaced to obtain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Alexander Hvatov , Mikhail Maslyaev , Iana S. Polonskaya , Mikhail Sarafanov , Mark Merezhnikov , Nikolay O. Nikitin

Inverse problems use physical measurements along with a computational model to estimate the parameters or state of a system of interest. Errors in measurements and uncertainties in the computational model lead to inaccurate estimates. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Vishwas Rao , Adrian Sandu

In this paper we study an inverse boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations. The goal is to reconstruct perturbations in the refractive index of the medium inside an object from the knowledge of the tangential trace of an electric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jérémy Heleine

Inverse optimization has been increasingly used to estimate unknown parameters in an optimization model based on decision data. We show that such a point estimation is insufficient in a prescriptive setting where the estimated parameters…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Bo Lin , Erick Delage , Timothy C. Y. Chan

In this paper, we introduce a bilevel optimization framework for addressing inverse mean-field games, alongside an exploration of numerical methods tailored for this bilevel problem. The primary benefit of our bilevel formulation lies in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jiajia Yu , Quan Xiao , Tianyi Chen , Rongjie Lai

This work investigates a class of moving boundary problems related to a nonlinear evolution equation featuring an exponential source term. We establish a connection to Stefan-type problems, for different boundary conditions at the fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Julieta Bollati , Ernesto A. Borrego Rodriguez , Adriana C. Briozzo , Colin Rogers

The inverse problem is studied in multi-body systems with nonlinear dynamics representing, e.g., phase-locked wave systems, standard multimode and random lasers. Using a general model for four-body interacting complex-valued variables we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-01 Alessia Marruzzo , Payal Tyagi , Fabrizio Antenucci , Andrea Pagnani , Luca Leuzzi

Inverse problems occur in a variety of parameter identification tasks in engineering. Such problems are challenging in practice, as they require repeated evaluation of computationally expensive forward models. We introduce a unifying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Simon Weissmann , Ashia Wilson , Jakob Zech

This paper investigates inverse potential problems of wave equations with cubic nonlinearity. We develop a methodology for establishing stability estimates for inversion of lower order coefficients. The new ingredients of our approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Xi Chen , Shuai Lu , Ruochong Zhang

Inverse optimization refers to the inference of unknown parameters of an optimization problem based on knowledge of its optimal solutions. This paper considers inverse optimization in the setting where measurements of the optimal solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Anil Aswani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Auyon Siddiq

The problem of computing differential constraints for a family of evolution PDEs is discussed from a constructive point of view. A new method, based on the existence of generalized characteristics for evolution vector fields, is proposed in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Francesco C. De Vecchi , Paola Morando

An evolutionary form of a generalized Bayesian update method, which is strictly derivative- free yet directed through an additive update term based purely on the statistical moments of the design variables, is proposed for nonlinear inverse…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-17 M Venugopal , D Roy , R M Vasu

In this chapter we provide a theoretically founded investigation of state-of-the-art learning approaches for inverse problems from the point of view of spectral reconstruction operators. We give an extended definition of regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Martin Burger , Samira Kabri

The goal of this paper is to provide computational tools able to find a solution of a system of polynomial inequalities. The set of inequalities is reformulated as a system of polynomial equations. Three different methods, two of which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Laura Menini , Corrado Possieri , Antonio Tornambè

The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create large-scale linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Jesus A. De Loera , Peter N. Malkin , Pablo A. Parrilo

An inverse problem of identifying locations and certain properties of small dielectric inhomogeneities in a homogeneous background medium from boundary measurements on a part of the boundary is studied. Using as weights particular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Ammari , A. G. Ramm

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for diffusion equations with multiple fractional time derivatives. We prove the uniqueness in determining a number of fractional time-derivative terms, the orders of the derivatives and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , O. Y. Imanuvilov , Masahiro Yamamoto

This paper presents a theoretical and numerical investigation of object detection in a fluid governed by the three-dimensional evolutionary Navier--Stokes equations. To solve this inverse problem, we assume that interior velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Mourad Hrizi , Marwa Ouni , Maatoug Hassine