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We propose an inverse-design approach for computational spectrometers in which the scattering media are topology-optimized to achieve better performance in inference of unknown spectra. Unlike traditional end-to-end approaches, our inverse…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-31 Wenchao Ma , Raphaël Pestourie , Zin Lin , Steven G. Johnson

We propose self-diffusion, a novel framework for solving inverse problems without relying on pretrained generative models. Traditional diffusion-based approaches require training a model on a clean dataset to learn to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guanxiong Luo , Shoujin Huang , Yanlong Yang

In the scope of "AI for Science", solving inverse problems is a longstanding challenge in materials and drug discovery, where the goal is to determine the hidden structures given a set of desirable properties. Deep generative models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jiaxin Zhang , Sirui Bi , Victor Fung

The reconstruction of the 3D permittivity map from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data is of great importance for mapping subsurface environments and inspecting underground structural integrity. Traditional iterative 3D reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Qiqi Dai , Yee Hui Lee , Hai-Han Sun , Genevieve Ow , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

We present a conditional diffusion model for electromagnetic inverse design that generates structured media geometries directly from target differential scattering cross-section profiles, bypassing expensive iterative optimization. Our 1D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mikhail Tsukerman , Konstantin Grotov , Pavel Ginzburg

The inverse design of metasurfaces faces inherent challenges due to the nonlinear and highly complex relationship between geometric configurations and their electromagnetic behavior. Traditional optimization approaches often suffer from…

We present a neural operator framework for solving inverse scattering problems. A neural operator produces a preliminary indicator function for the scatterer, which, after appropriate rescaling, is used as a regularization parameter within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Victor Chenu , Houssem Haddar , Hadrien Montanelli

Machine learning techniques, notably various deep neural network methods, are instrumental in processing extensive and intricate data sets in engineering and scientific fields. This paper shows how deep neural networks can inversely design…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ali Mohajer Hejazi , Vincent Ginis

We explore artificial neural networks as a tool for the reconstruction of spectral functions from imaginary time Green's functions, a classic ill-conditioned inverse problem. Our ansatz is based on a supervised learning framework in which…

The advent of two-dimensional metamaterials in recent years has ushered in a revolutionary means to manipulate the behavior of light on the nanoscale. The effective parameters of these architected materials render unprecedented control over…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zhaocheng Liu , Dayu Zhu , Sean P. Rodrigues , Kyu-Tae Lee , Wenshan Cai

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by deep generative networks). In this work, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Viraj Shah , Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif , Chinmay Hegde

Deep metric learning aims to construct an embedding space where samples of the same class are close to each other, while samples of different classes are far away from each other. Most existing deep metric learning methods attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Liu Pingping , Liu Zetong , Lang Yijun , Zhou Qiuzhan , Li Qingliang

Neural networks have been demonstrated to be able to accelerate the modeling and inverse design of optical and electromagnetic devices by serving as fast surrogates for electromagnetic solvers. Nevertheless, such neural networks can be…

When adopting a model-based formulation, solving inverse problems encountered in multiband imaging requires to define spatial and spectral regularizations. In most of the works of the literature, spectral information is extracted from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Min Zhao , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jie Chen

Electromagnetic (EM) imaging is an important tool for non-invasive sensing with low-cost and portable devices. One emerging application is EM stroke imaging, which enables early diagnosis and continuous monitoring of brain strokes.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Rui Guo , Yi Zhang , Yhonatan Kvich , Tianyao Huang , Maokun Li , Yonina C. Eldar

Inverse problems are ubiquitous in nature, arising in almost all areas of science and engineering ranging from geophysics and climate science to astrophysics and biomechanics. One of the central challenges in solving inverse problems is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-21 Dhruv V Patel , Deep Ray , Assad A Oberai

This paper proposes a new way of regularizing an inverse problem in imaging (e.g., deblurring or inpainting) by means of a deep generative neural network. Compared to end-to-end models, such approaches seem particularly interesting since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Thomas Oberlin , Mathieu Verm

Computational imaging plays a pivotal role in determining hidden information from sparse measurements. A robust inverse solver is crucial to fully characterize the uncertainty induced by these measurements, as it allows for the estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Sirui Bi , Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang

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

In this work, we focus on the inverse medium scattering problem (IMSP), which aims to recover unknown scatterers based on measured scattered data. Motivated by the efficient direct sampling method (DSM) introduced in [23], we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Jianfeng Ning , Fuqun Han , Jun Zou