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In electrical impedance tomography, algorithms based on minimizing the linearized-data-fit residuum have been widely used due to their real-time implementation and satisfactory reconstructed images. However, the resulting images usually…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Bastian Harrach , Mach Nguyet Minh

In this paper we investigate the problem of recovering the source term in an elliptic system from a measurement of the state on a part of the boundary. For the particular interest in reconstructing probably discontinuous sources, we use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Michael Hinze , Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

Geophysical inversion attempts to estimate the distribution of physical properties in the Earth's interior from observations collected at or above the surface. Inverse problems are commonly posed as least-squares optimization problems in…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vladimir Puzyrev

We present a trust-region-based adaptive finite-element algorithm for numerically solving a class of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems that includes problems with sparsifying regularizers and convex constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Harbir Antil , Robert J. Baraldi , Rohit Khandelwal , Drew P. Kouri

This paper is devoted to proving convergence rates of variational and iterative regularization methods under variational source conditions VSCs for inverse problems whose linearization satisfies a range invariance condition. In order to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Barbara Kaltenbacher

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

In this article, we propose a novel regularization method for a class of nonlinear inverse problems that is inspired by an application in quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI). The latter is a special instance of a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Clemens Sirotenko

We present a method for the nonparametric estimation of the drift function of certain types of stochastic differential equations from the empirical density. It is based on a variational formulation of the Fokker-Planck equation. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-12-16 Philipp Batz , Andreas Ruttor , Manfred Opper

The numerical simulation and optimization of technical systems described by partial differential equations is expensive, especially in multi-query scenarios in which the underlying equations have to be solved for different parameters. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Franziska Griese , Fabian Hoppe , Alexander Rüttgers , Philipp Knechtges

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has recently become a favorite technique for the inverse problem of finding properties in the earth from measurements of vibrations of seismic waves on the surface. Mathematically, FWI is PDE constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Björn Engquist , Yunan Yang

When using the finite element method (FEM) in inverse problems, its discretization error can produce parameter estimates that are inaccurate and overconfident. The Bayesian finite element method (BFEM) provides a probabilistic model for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Anne Poot , Iuri Rocha , Pierre Kerfriden , Frans van der Meer

The aim of this paper is to introduce and study a two-step debiasing method for variational regularization. After solving the standard variational problem, the key idea is to add a consecutive debiasing step minimizing the data fidelity on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Eva-Maria Brinkmann , Martin Burger , Julian Rasch , Camille Sutour

Characterising the noise of an airborne electromagnetic (AEM) system is critical in correctly imaging the earth's subsurface conductivity. Deterministic and probabilistic geophysical inversion algorithms require foreknowledge of the system…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tim Scarr , Anandaroop Ray , Ross C. Brodie

We propose and analyze a perturbative regularization method to approximate quadratic optimization problems with finite-dimensional degeneracy. The original problem is first approximated by a regularized problem depending on a small positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 C. G. Gebhardt , I. Romero

We introduce a derivative-free computational framework for approximating solutions to nonlinear PDE-constrained inverse problems. The aim is to merge ideas from iterative regularization with ensemble Kalman methods from Bayesian inference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Marco A. Iglesias

We recently found that the electromagnetic scattering problem can be very fast in an approach expressing the fields in terms of orthonormal basis functions. In this paper we apply computational conformal geometry with the conformal energy…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-19 Pengcheng Wan , Zhong-Heng Tan , S. T. Chui , Tiexiang Li , S. T. Yau

A variational method is discussed, based on the principle of minimal variance. The method seems to be suited for gauge interacting fermions, and the simple case of quantum electrodynamics is discussed in detail. The issue of renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-10 Fabio Siringo

We propose to learn non-convex regularizers with a prescribed upper bound on their weak-convexity modulus. Such regularizers give rise to variational denoisers that minimize a convex energy. They rely on few parameters (less than 15,000)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Alexis Goujon , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

This paper presents a novel approach to construct regularizing operators for severely ill-posed Fredholm integral equations of the first kind by introducing parametrized discretization. The optimal values of discretization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Vladimir V Kryzhniy

We present a new method for minimizing the sum of a differentiable convex function and an $\ell_1$-norm regularizer. The main features of the new method include: $(i)$ an evolving set of indices corresponding to variables that are predicted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Tianyi Chen , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson