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Several applications in medical imaging and non-destructive material testing lead to inverse elliptic coefficient problems, where an unknown coefficient function in an elliptic PDE is to be determined from partial knowledge of its…

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We consider finite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems with Gaussian priors and additive Gaussian noise models. The goal of this note is to present a simple derivation of the well-known fact that solving the Bayesian D-optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Alen Alexanderian

We present a systematic approach to the optimal placement of finitely many sensors in order to infer a finite-dimensional parameter from point evaluations of the solution of an associated parameter-dependent elliptic PDE. The quality of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Ira Neitzel , Konstantin Pieper , Boris Vexler , Daniel Walter

Theoretical inverse problems are often studied in an ideal infinite-dimensional setting. The well-posedness theory provides a unique reconstruction of the parameter function, when an infinite amount of data is given. Through the lens of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Ruhui Jin , Qin Li , Anjali Nair , Samuel Stechmann

The choice of the parameter value for regularized inverse problems is critical to the results and remains a topic of interest. This article explores a criterion for selecting a good parameter value by maximizing the probability of the data,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Toby Sanders , Rodrigo B. Platte , Robert D. Skeel

In the framework of solid mechanics, the task of deriving material parameters from experimental data has recently re-emerged with the progress in full-field measurement capabilities and the renewed advances of machine learning. In this…

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The inverse problem methodology is a commonly-used framework in the sciences for parameter estimation and inference. It is typically performed by fitting a mathematical model to noisy experimental data. There are two significant sources of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-26 John T. Nardini , D. M. Bortz

We present a new data-driven reduced-order modeling approach to efficiently solve parametrized partial differential equations (PDEs) for many-query problems. This work is inspired by the concept of implicit neural representation (INR),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Tianshu Wen , Kookjin Lee , Youngsoo Choi

Common computational problems, such as parameter estimation in dynamic models and PDE constrained optimization, require data fitting over a set of auxiliary parameters subject to physical constraints over an underlying state. Naive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Tristan van Leeuwen

In this chapter, we are concerned with inverse optimal control problems, i.e., optimization models which are used to identify parameters in optimal control problems from given measurements. Here, we focus on linear-quadratic optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Stephan Dempe , Markus Friedemann , Felix Harder , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

Inverse problems are prevalent in numerous scientific and engineering disciplines, where the objective is to determine unknown parameters within a physical system using indirect measurements or observations. The inherent challenge lies in…

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The inverse conductivity problem aims at determining the unknown conductivity inside a bounded domain from boundary measurements. In practical applications, algorithms based on minimizing a regularized residual functional subject to PDE…

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We introduce a class of "inverse parametric optimization" problems, in which one is given both a parametric optimization problem and a desired optimal solution; the task is to determine parameter values that lead to the given solution. We…

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Solving inverse partial differential equation (PDE) problems is a fundamental topic in scientific research due to its broad significance across a wide range of real-world applications. Inverse PDE problems arise across medical imaging,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhentao Tan , Yuze Hao , Boyi Zou , Mingsheng Long , Yi Yang , Gang Bao

Most inverse optimization models impute unspecified parameters of an objective function to make an observed solution optimal for a given optimization problem with a fixed feasible set. We propose two approaches to impute unspecified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Timothy C. Y. Chan , Neal Kaw

Inverse problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) play a critical role in model development and calibration. In many applications, there are multiple uncertain parameters in a model that must be estimated. However, high…

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Using a new Bayesian method for solving inverse quantum problems, potentials of quantum systems are reconstructed from coordinate measurements in non-stationary states. The approach is based on two basic inputs: 1. a likelihood model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Lemm

In the theory and practice of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) much attention is paid to the problem of the identification of coefficients from some additional information. This work deals with the problem of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-04-23 P. N. Vabishchevich , V. I. Vasil'ev

We consider optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian nonlinear inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) under model uncertainty. Specifically, we consider inverse problems in which, in addition to the…

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