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Migration-based earthquake location methods may encounter the polarity reversal issue due to the non-explosive components of seismic source, leading to an unfocused migration image. Various methods have been proposed, yet producing an…

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Designing free-form photonic devices is fundamentally challenging due to the vast number of possible geometries and the complex requirements of fabrication constraints. Traditional inverse-design approaches--whether driven by human…

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Seismic acoustic impedance inversion is a challenging problem in geophysical exploration, primarily due to the scarcity of well-logging data and the inherent nonlinearity of the task. Most existing inversion methods, including…

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Global probabilistic inversion within the latent space learned by a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has been recently demonstrated. Compared to inversion on the original model space, using the latent space of a trained GAN can offer…

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We consider a class of inverse problems where it is possible to aggregate the results of multiple experiments. This class includes problems where the forward model is the solution operator to linear ODEs or PDEs. The tremendous size of such…

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