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The Difference-in-Differences (DiD) method is a fundamental tool for causal inference, yet its application is often complicated by missing data. Although recent work has developed robust DiD estimators for complex settings like staggered…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-27 Lorenzo Testa , Edward H. Kennedy , Matthew Reimherr

Automatic differentiation (AD) is a technique for computing the derivative of a function represented by a program. This technique is considered as the de-facto standard for computing the differentiation in many machine learning and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Amir Shaikhha , Mathieu Huot , Shabnam Ghasemirad , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Simon Peyton Jones , Dimitrios Vytiniotis

Deep learning models in medical imaging often encounter challenges when adapting to new clinical settings unseen during training. Test-time adaptation offers a promising approach to optimize models for these unseen domains, yet its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sameer Ambekar , Julia A. Schnabel , Cosmin I. Bercea

We demonstrate that automatic differentiation (AD), which has become commonly available in machine learning frameworks, is an efficient way to explore ideas that lead to algorithmic improvement in multi-scale affine image registration and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Warin Watson , Cash Cherry , Rachelle Lang

A novel computational, non-iterative and noise-robust reconstruction method is introduced for the planar anisotropic inverse conductivity problem. The method is based on bypassing the unstable step of the reconstruction of the values of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Sarah Jane Hamilton , Matti Lassas , Samuli Siltanen

This paper aims to numerically solve the two-dimensional electrical impedance tomography (EIT) with Cauchy data. This inverse problem is highly challenging due to its severe ill-posed nature and strong nonlinearity, which necessitates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Kai Li , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou

Neural network-based approaches have recently shown significant promise in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in science and engineering, especially in scenarios featuring complex domains or incorporation of empirical data. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chuqi Chen , Yahong Yang , Yang Xiang , Wenrui Hao

Patients suffering from pulmonary diseases typically exhibit pathological lung ventilation in terms of homogeneity. Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging method that allows to analyze and quantify the distribution…

We show how to eliminate the error caused by an incorrectly modeled boundary in electrical impedance tomography (EIT). In practical measurements, one usually lacks the exact knowledge of the boundary. Because of this the numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ville Kolehmainen , Matti Lassas , Petri Ola

The successes of deep learning, variational inference, and many other fields have been aided by specialized implementations of reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) to compute gradients of mega-dimensional objectives. The AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Joshua Aduol , Alex Beatson , Ryan P. Adams

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) plays a crucial role in non-invasive imaging, with both medical and industrial applications. In this paper, we present three data-driven reconstruction methods for EIT imaging. These three approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Alexander Denker , Zeljko Kereta , Imraj Singh , Tom Freudenberg , Tobias Kluth , Peter Maass , Simon Arridge

This paper presents a static electrical impedance tomography (EIT) technique that evaluates abdominal obesity by estimating the thickness of subcutaneous fat. EIT has a fundamental drawback for absolute admittivity imaging because of its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Habib Ammari , Hyeuknam Kwon , Seungri Lee , Jin Keun Seo

An efficient computational approach for optimal reconstruction of binary-type images suitable for models in various applications including biomedical imaging is developed and validated. The methodology includes derivative-free optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Paul R. Arbic , Vladislav Bukshtynov

We present a simple yet powerful framework for solving inverse problems by leveraging automatic differentiation. Our method is broadly applicable whenever a smooth cost function can be defined near the true solution, and a numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-17 Koji Kobayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki

Optimizing shapes and topology of physical devices is crucial for both scientific and technological advancements, given its wide-ranging implications across numerous industries and research areas. Innovations in shape and topology…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Alexander Luce , Rasoul Alaee , Fabian Knorr , Florian Marquardt

Soft robotic systems offer benefits over traditional rigid systems through reduced contact trauma with soft tissues and by enabling access through tortuous paths in minimally invasive surgery. However, the inherent deformability of soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-04 James Avery , Mark Runciman , Ara Darzi , George P. Mylonas

Anomaly detection (AD) is the machine learning task of identifying highly discrepant abnormal samples by solely relying on the consistency of the normal training samples. Under the constraints of a distribution shift, the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 João B. S. Carvalho , Mengtao Zhang , Robin Geyer , Carlos Cotrini , Joachim M. Buhmann

Real-time numerical differentiation plays a crucial role in many digital control algorithms, such as PID control, which requires numerical differentiation to implement derivative action. This paper addresses the problem of numerical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Shashank Verma , Sneha Sanjeevini , E. Dogan Sumer , Dennis S. Bernstein

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Lefu Cai , Zhixin Liu , Minghui Song , Xianchao Wang

Coherent diffraction imaging methods enable imaging beyond lens-imposed resolution limits. In these methods, the object can be recovered by minimizing an error metric that quantifies the difference between diffraction patterns as observed,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Saugat Kandel , S. Maddali , Marc Allain , Stephan O. Hruszkewycz , Chris Jacobsen , Youssef S G Nashed