English
Related papers

Related papers: Identifying the source term in the potential equat…

200 papers

We consider the problem of recovering the support of a sparse signal using noisy projections. While extensive work has been done on the dense measurement matrix setting, the sparse setting remains less explored. In this work, we establish…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Youssef Chaabouni , David Gamarnik

The recovery of unknown signals from quadratic measurements finds extensive applications in fields such as phase retrieval, power system state estimation, and unlabeled distance geometry. This paper investigates the finite sample properties…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jun Fan , Jingyu Yang , Xinyu Zhang , Liqun Wang

Scaling algorithms for entropic transport-type problems have become a very popular numerical method, encompassing Wasserstein barycenters, multi-marginal problems, gradient flows and unbalanced transport. However, a standard implementation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Bernhard Schmitzer

We consider the sparsification of sums $F : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ where $F(x) = f_1(\langle a_1,x\rangle) + \cdots + f_m(\langle a_m,x\rangle)$ for vectors $a_1,\ldots,a_m \in \mathbb{R}^n$ and functions $f_1,\ldots,f_m : \mathbb{R}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Arun Jambulapati , James R. Lee , Yang P. Liu , Aaron Sidford

The least-square regression problems or inverse problems have been widely studied in many fields such as compressive sensing, signal processing, and image processing. To solve this kind of ill-posed problems, a regularization term (i.e.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-12 Gang Liu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Xiao-Guang Lv , Jun Liu

In Learning Theory, the smoothness assumption on the target function (known as source condition) is a key factor in establishing theoretical convergence rates for an estimator. The existing general form of the source condition, as discussed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Naveen Gupta , S. Sivananthan

The inverse problem of identifying the unknown spacewise dependent source F(x) in 1D wave equation is considered. Measured data are taken in the form g(t) := u(0; t). The relationship between that problem and Ground Penetrating Radar (GRR)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Balgaisha Mukanova , Vladimir G. Romanov

In this paper we study the compressed sensing problem of recovering a sparse signal from a system of underdetermined linear equations when we have prior information about the probability of each entry of the unknown signal being nonzero. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-20 M. Amin Khajehnejad , Weiyu Xu , Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

In compressed sensing, it is often desirable to consider signals possessing additional structure beyond sparsity. One such structured signal model - which forms the focus of this paper - is the local sparsity in levels class. This class has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Chen Li , Ben Adcock

In this work, we investigate the regularized solutions and their finite element solutions to the inverse source problems governed by partial differential equations, and establish the stochastic convergence and optimal finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhiming Chen , Wenlong Zhang , Jun Zou

In this paper, we investigate the problem of source recovery in a dynamical system utilizing space-time samples. This is a specific issue within the broader field of dynamical sampling, which involves collecting samples from solutions to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Akram Aldroubi , Rocio Diaz Martin , Ivan Medri

We consider the sound ranging, or source localization, problem --- find the unknown source-point from known moments when the spherical wave of linearly, with time, increasing radius reaches known sensor-points --- in some non-proper metric…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Sergij V. Goncharov

We investigate conditions for the unique recoverability of sparse integer-valued signals from a small number of linear measurements. Both the objective of minimizing the number of nonzero components, the so-called $\ell_0$-norm, as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jan-Hendrik Lange , Marc E. Pfetsch , Bianca M. Seib , Andreas M. Tillmann

The inverse problem of recovering point sources represents an important class of applied inverse problems. However, there is still a lack of neural network-based methods for point source identification, mainly due to the inherent solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Tianhao Hu , Bangti Jin , Zhi Zhou

Non-convex constraints have recently proven a valuable tool in many optimisation problems. In particular sparsity constraints have had a significant impact on sampling theory, where they are used in Compressed Sensing and allow structured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Thomas Blumensath

Flexible sparsity regularization means stably approximating sparse solutions of operator equations by using coefficient-dependent penalizations. We propose and analyse a general nonconvex approach in this respect, from both theoretical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Daria Ghilli , Dirk A. Lorenz , Elena Resmerita

For linear ill-posed problems with nontrivial null spaces, Tikhonov regularization and truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) typically yield solutions that are close to the minimum norm solution. Such a bias is not always desirable,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Ole Løseth Elvetun , Kim Knudsen , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen

We consider the matrix completion problem under a form of row/column weighted entrywise sampling, including the case of uniform entrywise sampling as a special case. We analyze the associated random observation operator, and prove that with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

We consider the problem of approximating a function in general nonlinear subsets of $L^2$ when only a weighted Monte Carlo estimate of the $L^2$-norm can be computed. Of particular interest in this setting is the concept of sample…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Philipp Trunschke

We consider the recovery of a source term $f(x,t)=p(x)q(t)$ for the nonhomogeneous heat equation in $\Omega\times (0,\infty)$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$ from overposed lateral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang