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In this paper, we propose a novel primal-dual inexact gradient projection method for nonlinear optimization problems with convex-set constraint. This method only needs inexact computation of the projections onto the convex set for each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Fan Zhang , Hao Wang , Jiashan Wang , Kai Yang

Quasi-convex optimization acts a pivotal part in many fields including economics and finance; the subgradient method is an effective iterative algorithm for solving large-scale quasi-convex optimization problems. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Yaohua Hu , Jiawen Li , Carisa Kwok Wai Yu

Inverse optimization, determining parameters of an optimization problem that render a given solution optimal, has received increasing attention in recent years. While significant inverse optimization literature exists for convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Merve Bodur , Timothy C. Y. Chan , Ian Yihang Zhu

In this paper, we study the missing sample recovery problem using methods based on sparse approximation. In this regard, we investigate the algorithms used for solving the inverse problem associated with the restoration of missed samples of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-29 Amirhossein Javaheri , Hadi Zayyani , Farokh Marvasti

This paper concerns the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a locally perturbed periodic surface. Different from scattering problems with quasi-periodic incident fields and periodic surfaces, the scattered fields are no longer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Xiaoli Liu , Ruming Zhang

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

We propose a novel method to accurately reconstruct a set of images representing a single scene from few linear multi-view measurements. Each observed image is modeled as the sum of a background image and a foreground one. The background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Gilles Puy , Pierre Vandergheynst

Optimization models with non-convex constraints arise in many tasks in machine learning, e.g., learning with fairness constraints or Neyman-Pearson classification with non-convex loss. Although many efficient methods have been developed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Runchao Ma , Qihang Lin , Tianbao Yang

We propose in this paper a globally numerical method to solve a phaseless coefficient inverse problem: how to reconstruct the spatially distributed refractive index of scatterers from the intensity (modulus square) of the full complex…

The inverse scattering problem, whose goal is to reconstruct an unknown scattering object from its scattered wave, is essential in fundamental wave physics and its wide applications in imaging sciences. However, it remains challenging to…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-08 Moosung Lee , Herve Hugonnet , YongKeun Park

This paper investigates the inverse scattering problem of time-harmonic plane waves incident on a perfectly reflecting random periodic structure. To simulate random perturbations arising from manufacturing defects and surface wear in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhiqi Sun , Yiwen Lin

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning. Popular methods like K-means, may suffer from poor performance as they are prone to get stuck in its local minima. Recently, the sum-of-norms (SON) model (also known as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Yancheng Yuan

We propose a new approach to linear ill-posed inverse problems. Our algorithm alternates between enforcing two constraints: the measurements and the statistical correlation structure in some transformed space. We use a non-linear multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ivan Dokmanić , Joan Bruna , Stéphane Mallat , Maarten de Hoop

In applications throughout science and engineering one is often faced with the challenge of solving an ill-posed inverse problem, where the number of available measurements is smaller than the dimension of the model to be estimated. However…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Benjamin Recht , Pablo A. Parrilo , Alan S. Willsky

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem in the domain Omega. The input data, measured outside Omega, involve the waves generated by the interaction of plane waves with various directions and unknown scatterers fully occluded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Phuong M. Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Huong T. T. Vu

In this paper, we present algorithms for reconstructing an unknown compact scatterer embedded in a random noisy background medium, given measurements of the scattered field and information about the background medium and the sound profile.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Carlos Borges , George Biros

A method for practical realization of the inverse scattering transform method for the Korteweg-de Vries equation is proposed. It is based on analytical representations for Jost solutions and for integral kernels of transformation operators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Sergei M. Grudsky , Vladislav V. Kravchenko , Sergii M. Torba

We consider the problem of reconstructing an infinite set of sparse, finite-dimensional vectors, that share a common sparsity pattern, from incomplete measurements. This is in contrast to the work [17], where the single vector signal can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Nick Dexter , Hoang Tran , Clayton Webster

In this paper we characterize sharp time-data tradeoffs for optimization problems used for solving linear inverse problems. We focus on the minimization of a least-squares objective subject to a constraint defined as the sub-level set of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Samet Oymak , Benjamin Recht , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

In this work we propose a theoretical and computational framework for solving the three dimensional inverse medium scattering problem, based on a set of data-driven basis arising from the linearized problem. This set of data-driven basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Yuyuan Zhou , Lorenzo Audibert , Shixu Meng , Bo Zhang