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Stochastic inverse problems considered in this article consist of estimating the probability distributions of intrinsically random inputs of computer models. These estimations are based on observable outputs affected by model noise, and…

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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…

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In this paper, we propose and study several inverse problems of determining unknown parameters in nonlocal nonlinear coupled PDE systems, including the potentials, nonlinear interaction functions and time-fractional orders. In these coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Ming-Hui Ding , Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo

Single-level reformulations of (non-convex) distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems are often intractable, as they contain semiinfinite dual constraints. Based on such a semiinfinite reformulation, we present a safe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 J. Dienstbier , F. Liers , J. Rolfes

We study inverse boundary problems for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimensions $\ge 2$ with smooth boundary, at a large fixed frequency. We show that certain classes of cubic nonlinearities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Katya Krupchyk , Shiqi Ma , Suman Kumar Sahoo , Mikko Salo , Simon St-Amant

Inverse problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Many of these are naturally formulated as a PDE-constrained optimization problem. These non-linear, large-scale, constrained optimization problems know many challenges, of which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Tristan van Leeuwen , Yunan Yang

This paper presents a novel convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems with non-convex constraints that restrict the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

In this article, we propose a non-parametric Bayesian level-set method for simultaneous reconstruction of two different piecewise constant coefficients in an elliptic partial differential equation. We show that the Bayesian formulation of…

Applications · Statistics 2025-05-28 Anuj Abhishek , Thilo Strauss , Taufiquar Khan

In this paper, we study a class of fractional semi-infinite polynomial programming (FSIPP) problems, in which the objective is a fraction of a convex polynomial and a concave polynomial, and the constraints consist of infinitely many convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Feng Guo , Liguo Jiao

We consider an optimal recovery problem for the Poisson problem when the boundary data is unknown. Compensating information is provided in the form of a finite number of measurements of the solution. A finite element algorithm for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow , Joshua M. Siktar

We study an inverse acoustic scattering problem in half-space with a probabilistic impedance boundary value condition. The Robin coefficient (surface impedance) is assumed to be a Gaussian random function $\lambda = \lambda(x)$ with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-18 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Lassi Päivärinta

High dimensional and/or nonconvex optimization remains a challenging and important problem across a wide range of fields, such as machine learning, data assimilation, and partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization. Here we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Brian K. Tran , Ben S. Southworth , David B. Cavender , Sam Olivier , Syed A. Shah , Tommaso Buvoli

A Coefficient Inverse Problem for the radiative transport equation is considered. The globally convergent numerical method, the so-called convexification, is developed. For the first time, the viscosity solution is considered for a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Zhipeng Yang

The reconstruction of an unknown quantity from noisy measurements is a mathematical problem relevant in most applied sciences, for example, in medical imaging, radar inverse scattering, or astronomy. This underlying mathematical problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Nina M. Gottschling , David Iagaru , Jakob Gawlikowski , Ioannis Sgouralis

We propose a novel method of resolving the optimal anisotropy function. The idea is to construct the optimal anisotropy function as a solution to the inverse Wulff problem, i.e. as a minimizer for the anisoperimetric ratio for a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Daniel Sevcovic , Maria Trnovska

In this paper, we introduce a new class of nonsmooth convex functions called SOS-convex semialgebraic functions extending the recently proposed notion of SOS-convex polynomials. This class of nonsmooth convex functions covers many common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 N. H. Chieu , J. W. Feng , W. Gao , G. Li , D. Wu

We consider the NP-hard problem of minimizing a convex quadratic function over the integer lattice ${\bf Z}^n$. We present a simple semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for obtaining a nontrivial lower bound on the optimal value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Jaehyun Park , Stephen Boyd

A standard quadratic program is an optimization problem that consists of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex. We focus on reformulating a standard quadratic program as a mixed integer linear programming problem. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Jacek Gondzio , E. Alper Yildirim

We provide an overview of recent progress in statistical inverse problems with random experimental design, covering both linear and nonlinear inverse problems. Different regularization schemes have been studied to produce robust and stable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Abhishake , Tapio Helin , Nicole Mücke

The central object of this PhD thesis is known under different names in the fields of computer science and statistical mechanics. In computer science, it is called the Maximum Cut problem, one of the famous twenty-one Karp's original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Mikhail Krechetov