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Nonlinear least squares data-fitting driven by physical process simulation is a classic and widely successful technique for the solution of inverse problems in science and engineering. Known as "Full Waveform Inversion" in application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 William W. Symes

We study the problem of exact support recovery based on noisy observations and present Refined Least Squares (RLS). Given a set of noisy measurement $$ \myvec{y} = \myvec{X}\myvec{\theta}^* + \myvec{\omega},$$ and $\myvec{X} \in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Ofir Lindenbaum , Stefan Steinerberger

Least squares approximation is a technique to find an approximate solution to a system of linear equations that has no exact solution. In a typical setting, one lets $n$ be the number of constraints and $d$ be the number of variables, with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Petros Drineas , Michael W. Mahoney , S. Muthukrishnan , Tamas Sarlos

The 2D phase unwrapping problem seeks to recover a phase image from its observation modulo 2$\pi$, and is a crucial step in a variety of imaging applications. In particular, it is one of the most time-consuming steps in the interferometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Benjamin Dubois-Taine , Roland Akiki , Alexandre d'Aspremont

Motivated by their broad applications in reinforcement learning, we study the linear two-time-scale stochastic approximation, an iterative method using two different step sizes for finding the solutions of a system of two equations. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Thinh T. Doan

This paper studies the problem of parameter estimation in resonant, acoustic fluid-structure interaction problems over a wide frequency range. Problems with multiple resonances are known to be subjected to local minima, which represents a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Peter Göransson , Jacques Cuenca , Timo Lähivaara

In this paper, we study the problem of multipath channel estimation for direct sequence spread spectrum signals. To resolve multipath components arriving within a short interval, we propose a new algorithm called the least-squares based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Wooseok Nam , Seung-Hyun Kong

Robust regression techniques rely on least-squares optimization, which works well for Gaussian noise but fails in the presence of asymmetric structured noise. We propose a hybrid neural-symbolic architecture where a transformer encoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Roman Gutierrez , Tony Kai Tang , Isabel Gutierrez

This paper addresses the problem of sparse phase retrieval, a fundamental inverse problem in applied mathematics, physics, and engineering, where a signal need to be reconstructed using only the magnitude of its transformation while phase…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 The Tien Mai

This work develops a robust diffusion recursive least squares algorithm to mitigate the performance degradation often experienced in networks of agents in the presence of impulsive noise. This algorithm minimizes an exponentially weighted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Y. Yu , R. C. de Lamare , Y. Zakharov

We present a novel iterative algorithm for approximating the linear least squares solution with low complexity. After a motivation of the algorithm we discuss the algorithm's properties including its complexity, and we present theoretical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Michael Lunglmayr , Christoph Unterrieder , Mario Huemer

We estimate $n$ phases (angles) from noisy pairwise relative phase measurements. The task is modeled as a nonconvex least-squares optimization problem. It was recently shown that this problem can be solved in polynomial time via convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Nicolas Boumal

Least squares is by far the simplest and most commonly applied computational method in many fields. In almost all applications, the least squares objective is rarely the true objective. We account for this discrepancy by parametrizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Shane Barratt , Stephen Boyd

Recovering an unknown signal from quadratic measurements has gained popularity due to its wide range of applications, including phase retrieval, fusion frame phase retrieval, and positive operator-valued measures. In this paper, we employ a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jun Fan , Jie Sun , Ailing Yan , Shenglong Zhou

The classical iteratively reweighted least-squares (IRLS) algorithm aims to recover an unknown signal from linear measurements by performing a sequence of weighted least squares problems, where the weights are recursively updated at each…

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We present a variational algorithm for solving the classical inverse Sturm-Liouville problem in one dimension when two spectra are given. All critical points of the least squares functional are at global minima, which which suggests…

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The least squares method provides the best-fit curve by minimizing the total squares error. In this work, we provide the modified least squares method based on the fractional orthogonal polynomials that belong to the space $M_{n}^{\lambda}…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Mani Mehra , Anatoly A. Alikhanov

In this paper, a two-step regularization method is used to solve an ill-posed spherical pseudo-differential equation in the presence of noisy data. For the first step of regularization we approximate the data by means of a spherical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Hui Cao , Sergei V. Pereverzyev , Ian H. Sloan , Pavlo Tkachenko

This paper studies adaptive least-squares finite element methods for convection-dominated diffusion-reaction problems. The least-squares methods are based on the first-order system of the primal and dual variables with various ways of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Zhiqiang Cai , Binghe Chen , Jing Yang

Statistical inverse learning aims at recovering an unknown function $f$ from randomly scattered and possibly noisy point evaluations of another function $g$, connected to $f$ via an ill-posed mathematical model. In this paper we blend…

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