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Overdetermined systems of first kind integral equations appear in many applications. When the right-hand side is discretized, the resulting finite-data problem is ill-posed and admits infinitely many solutions. We propose a numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Patricia Díaz de Alba , Luisa Fermo , Federica Pes , Giuseppe Rodriguez

Implicit inverse problems, in which noisy observations of a physical quantity are used to infer a nonlinear functional applied to an associated function, are inherently ill posed and often exhibit non uniqueness of solutions. Such problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Davide Parodi , Federico Benvenuto , Sara Garbarino , Michele Piana

In this paper we study the inverse Laplace transform. We first derive a new global logarithmic stability estimate that shows that the inversion is severely ill-posed. Then we propose a regularization method to compute the inverse Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Pierre Maréchal , Faouzi Triki , Walter C. Simo Tao Lee

Optimal design of experiments for Bayesian inverse problems has recently gained wide popularity and attracted much attention, especially in the computational science and Bayesian inversion communities. An optimal design maximizes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Ahmed Attia , Sven Leyffer , Todd Munson

We study the problem of regularization of inverse problems adopting a purely data driven approach, by using the similarity to the method of regularization by projection. We provide an application of a projection algorithm, utilized and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Andrea Aspri , Leon Frischauf , Yury Korolev , Otmar Scherzer

Decision analysis deals with modeling and enhancing decision processes. A principal challenge in improving behavior is in obtaining a transparent description of existing behavior in the first place. In this paper, we develop an expressive,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Daniel Jarrett , Alihan Hüyük , Mihaela van der Schaar

This article presents a new approach to the real-time solution of inverse problems on embedded systems. The class of problems addressed corresponds to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with generalized linear constraints, whereby the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Christoph Gugg , Matthew Harker , Paul O'Leary , Gerhard Rath

Experimental design is central to science and engineering. A ubiquitous challenge is how to maximize the value of information obtained from expensive or constrained experimental settings. Bayesian optimal experimental design (OED) provides…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-13 Sofia Mäkinen , Andrew B. Duncan , Tapio Helin

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

$\ell_1$ regularization is used to preserve edges or enforce sparsity in a solution to an inverse problem. We investigate the Split Bregman and the Majorization-Minimization iterative methods that turn this non-smooth minimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Brian Sweeney , Rosemary Renaut , Malena Español

Designing appropriate variational regularization schemes is a crucial part of solving inverse problems, making them better-posed and guaranteeing that the solution of the associated optimization problem satisfies desirable properties.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ronan Fablet , Lucas Drumetz , Francois Rousseau

Parameter identification problems for partial differential equations are an important subclass of inverse problems. The parameter-to-state map, which maps the parameter of interest to the respective solution of the PDE or state of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Heiko Hoffmann , Anne Wald

In this paper, a parametric level set method for reconstruction of obstacles in general inverse problems is considered. General evolution equations for the reconstruction of unknown obstacles are derived in terms of the underlying level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-07 Alireza Aghasi , Misha Kilmer , Eric L. Miller

Signal restoration and inverse problems are key elements in most real-world data science applications. In the past decades, with the emergence of machine learning methods, inversion of measurements has become a popular step in almost all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Deborah Pereg

Optimization methods have been broadly applied to two classes of objects viz. (i) modeling and description of data and (ii) the determination of the stationary points of functions. Here, a theoretical basis is developed that optimizes an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Christopher G. Jesudason

We propose a technique for reformulation of state and parameter estimation problems as that of matching explicitly computable definite integrals with known kernels to data. The technique applies for a class of systems of nonlinear ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-11 I. Yu. Tyukin , A. N. Gorban

Neural networks have emerged as effective tools for solving ill-posed inverse problems. In many scientific applications, however, observational training data are insufficient, and learned inverse operators must instead be trained on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Sandra R. Babyale , Jodi Mead

We present a computational framework for estimating the uncertainty in the numerical solution of linearized infinite-dimensional statistical inverse problems. We adopt the Bayesian inference formulation: given observational data and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Tan Bui-Thanh , Omar Ghattas , James Martin , Georg Stadler

Popular methods for finding regularized solutions to inverse problems include sparsity promoting $\ell_1$ regularization techniques, one in particular which is the well known total variation (TV) regularization. More recently, several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Toby Sanders

The inverse potential problem consists in determining the density of the volume potential from measurements outside the sources. Its ill-posedness is due both to the non-uniqueness of the solution and to the instability of the solution with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 P. N. Vabishchevich