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In this paper, we develop a novel phase retrieval approach to reconstruct x-ray differential phase shift induced by an object. A primary advantage of our approach is a higher-order accuracy over that with the conventional linear…

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Signal recovery from nonlinear measurements involves solving an iterative optimization problem. In this paper, we present a framework to optimize the sensing parameters to improve the quality of the signal recovered by the given iterative…

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This paper addresses the inverse obstacle scattering problem of simultaneously reconstructing the obstacle geometry and boundary conditions from multi-frequency near-field backscattering data. We first establish rigorous high-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu

This paper focuses on phase retrieval from phaseless total-field data in biharmonic scattering problems. We prove that a phased biharmonic wave can be uniquely determined by the modulus of the total biharmonic wave within a nonempty domain.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yuxiang Cheng , Xiaoxu Xu

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a signal x from the amplitude |Ax| of linear measurements. We cast the phase retrieval problem as a non-convex quadratic program over a complex phase vector and formulate a tractable relaxation (called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Irène Waldspurger , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Stéphane Mallat

We study the recovery of one-dimensional semipermeable barriers for a stochastic process in a planar domain. The considered process acts like Brownian motion when away from the barriers and is reflected upon contact until a sufficient but…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexander Van Werde , Jaron Sanders

The inverse conductivity problem aims at determining the unknown conductivity inside a bounded domain from boundary measurements. In practical applications, algorithms based on minimizing a regularized residual functional subject to PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Lefu Cai , Zhixin Liu , Minghui Song , Xianchao Wang

In this paper, we propose a global framework that includes a detailed model of the photo-switching and acoustic processes for photo-switching optoacoustic mesoscopy, based on the underlying physics. We efficiently implement two forward…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-29 Yan Liu , Jonathan Chuah , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

Phase retrieval can be expressed as one non-convex constrained optimization problem to identify one phase minimizer in the primal space. Many iterative transform techniques have been proposed to identify the minimizer, e.g., relaxed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Pengwen Chen

We analyse the following inverse problem. Given a nonconvex functional (from a specific, but quite general class) of normal, codimension-1 currents (which in two spatial dimensions can be interpreted as transportation networks), find the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Benedikt Wirth

We introduce a variational algorithm, which solves the classical inverse Sturm-Liouville problem when two spectra are given. In contrast to other approaches, it recovers the potential as well as the boundary conditions without a priori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Norbert Roehrl

The ability of a radar to discriminate in both range and Doppler velocity is completely characterized by the ambiguity function (AF) of its transmit waveform. Mathematically, it is obtained by correlating the waveform with its…

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We consider composite linear inverse problems where the signal to recover is modeled as a sum of two functions. We study a variational framework formulated as an optimization problem over the pairs of components using two regularization…

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We derive a model for the optimization of the bending and torsional rigidities of non-homogeneous elastic rods. This is achieved by studying a sharp interface shape optimization problem with perimeter penalization, that treats both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Patrick Dondl , Alberto Maione , Steve Wolff-Vorbeck

Several generalizations of the traditional Tikhonov-Phillips regularization method have been proposed during the last two decades. Many of these generalizations are based upon inducing stability throughout the use of different penalizers…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Gisela L. Mazzieri , Ruben D. Spies , Karina G. Temperini

Variational phase-field models of brittle fracture pose a local constrained minimization problem of a non-convex energy functional. In the discrete setting, the problem is most often solved by alternate minimization, exploiting the separate…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jonas Heinzmann , Francesco Vicentini , Pietro Carrara , Laura De Lorenzis

We present a novel multilayer level-set method (MLSM) for eikonal-based first-arrival traveltime tomography. Unlike classical level-set approaches that rely solely on the zero-level set, the MLSM represents multiple phases through a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Wenbin Li , Ken K. T. Hung , Shingyu Leung

Recently, several authors have suggested the use of first order methods, such as fast dual ascent and the alternating direction method of multipliers, for embedded model predictive control. The main reason is that they can be implemented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pontus Giselsson

We consider simple bilevel optimization problems where the goal is to compute among the optimal solutions of a composite convex optimization problem, one that minimizes a secondary objective function. Our main contribution is threefold. (i)…

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