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Optimal experimental design (OED) is the general formalism of sensor placement and decisions about the data collection strategy for engineered or natural experiments. This approach is prevalent in many critical fields such as battery…

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From the final and interior temperature measurements identifying the source term with initial temperature simultaneously is an inverse heat conduction problem which is a kind of ill-posed. The optimal control framework has been found to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Arzu Erdem Coşkun

Optimal experimental design is a classic topic in statistics, with many well-studied problems, applications, and solutions. The design problem we study is the placement of sensors to monitor spatiotemporal processes, explicitly accounting…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-05 Daniel Waxman , Fernando Llorente , Katia Lamer , Petar M. Djurić

The \emph{sensor placement problem} for stochastic linear inverse problems consists of determining the optimal manner in which sensors can be employed to collect data. Specifically, one wishes to place a limited number of sensors over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Christian Aarset

Using measure theoretic arguments, we provide a general framework for describing and studying the general linear inverse dispersion problem where no a priori assumptions on the source function has been made. We investigate the source-sensor…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Niklas Brännström , Leif Å Persson

A quality-Bayesian approach, combining the direct sampling method and the Bayesian inversion, is proposed to reconstruct the locations and intensities of the unknown acoustic sources using partial data. First, we extend the direct sampling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Zhaoxing Li , Yanfang Liu , Jiguang Sun , Liwei Xu

This paper suggests a framework for the learning of discretizations of expensive forward models in Bayesian inverse problems. The main idea is to incorporate the parameters governing the discretization as part of the unknown to be estimated…

We consider inverse problems estimating distributed parameters from indirect noisy observations through discretization of continuum models described by partial differential or integral equations. It is well understood that the errors…

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The reconstruction of the structure of biological tissue using electromyographic data is a non-invasive imaging method with diverse medical applications. Mathematically, this process is an inverse problem. Furthermore, electromyographic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Anna Rörich , Tim A. Werthmann , Dominik Göddeke , Lars Grasedyck

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

A critical decision process in data acquisition for mineral and energy resource exploration is how to efficiently combine a variety of sensor types and to minimize total cost. We propose a probabilistic framework for multi-objective…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sebastian Haan , Fabio Ramos , Dietmar Müller

A complete solution for an inverse problem needs five main steps: choice of basis functions for discretization, determination of the order of the model, estimation of the hyperparameters, estimation of the solution, and finally,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Mohammad-Djafari

We present a review of methods for optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian inverse problems governed by partial differential equations with infinite-dimensional parameters. The focus is on problems where one seeks to optimize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Alen Alexanderian

A complete solution for an inverse problem needs five main steps: choice of basis functions for discretization, determination of the order of the model, estimation of the hyperparameters, estimation of the solution, and finally,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Mohammad-Djafari

Inverse design of slender elastic structures underlies a wide range of applications in computer graphics, flexible electronics, biomedical devices, and soft robotics. Traditional optimization-based approaches, however, are often orders of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Li , Mingchao Liu , Haiyi Liang , HengAn Wu , Weicheng Huang

This paper proposes an inverse design scheme for resistive heaters. By adjusting the spatial distribution of a binary electrical resistivity map, the scheme enables objective-driven optimization of heaters to achieve pre-defined…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Khoi Phuong Dao , Juejun Hu

We quantify the prior information to infer the optimal characteristics for a constrained thermodynamic process of maximum work extraction for a pair of non-identical finite systems. The total entropy of the whole system remains conserved.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Preety Aneja , Harsh Katyayan , Ramandeep S. Johal

This paper tackles optimal sensor placement for Bayesian linear inverse problems, a popular version of the more general Optimal Experimental Design (OED) problem, using the D-optimality criterion. This is done by establishing connections…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Srinivas Eswar , Vishwas Rao , Arvind K. Saibaba

This paper extends the sample complexity theory for ill-posed inverse problems developed in a recent work by the authors [`Compressed sensing for inverse problems and the sample complexity of the sparse Radon transform', J. Eur. Math. Soc.,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Giovanni S. Alberti , Alessandro Felisi , Matteo Santacesaria , S. Ivan Trapasso

Bayesian optimal sensor placement, in its full generality, seeks to maximize the mutual information between uncertain model parameters and the predicted data to be collected from the sensors for the purpose of performing Bayesian inference.…

Applications · Statistics 2019-06-17 Pinaky Bhattacharyya , James L. Beck