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We consider linear inverse problems where the solution is assumed to have a sparse expansion on an arbitrary pre-assigned orthonormal basis. We prove that replacing the usual quadratic regularizing penalties by weighted l^p-penalties on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Ingrid Daubechies , Michel Defrise , Christine De Mol

An inverse problem of identifying inhomogeneity or crack in the workpiece made of nonlinear magnetic material is investigated. To recover the shape from the local measurements, a piecewise constant level set algorithm is proposed. By means…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Xiangyin Kong , Zhengfang Zhang , Zhengda Huang

We present a general framework to study uniqueness, stability and reconstruction for infinite-dimensional inverse problems when only a finite-dimensional approximation of the measurements is available. For a large class of inverse problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Giovanni S. Alberti , Matteo Santacesaria

We introduce a level set based approach to Bayesian geometric inverse problems. In these problems the interface between different domains is the key unknown, and is realized as the level set of a function. This function itself becomes the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-04-02 Marco A. Iglesias , Yulong Lu , Andrew M. Stuart

A novel multi-level method for partial differential equations with uncertain parameters is proposed. The principle behind the method is that the error between grid levels in multi-level methods has a spatial structure that is by good…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Yous van Halder , Benjamin Sanderse , Barry Koren

We develop an interpolation-based modeling framework for parameter-dependent partial differential equations arising in control, inverse problems, and uncertainty quantification. The solution is discretized in the physical domain using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Erik Burman , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Jonatan Vallin

In this work, we illustrate the connection between adaptive mesh refinement for finite element discretized PDEs and the recently developed \emph{bi-level regularization algorithm}. By adaptive mesh refinement according to data noise,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Christian Aarset , Tram Thi Ngoc Nguyen

In this paper we address the numerical solution of nonlinear ill-posed systems by iterative regularization methods in the classes of Levenberg-Marquardt, trust-region and adaptive quadratic regularization procedures. Both with exact and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Stefania Bellavia , Benedetta Morini

Variational regularization of ill-posed inverse problems is based on minimizing the sum of a data fidelity term and a regularization term. The balance between them is tuned using a positive regularization parameter, whose automatic choice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Markus Juvonen , Bjørn Jensen , Ilmari Pohjola , Yiqiu Dong , Samuli Siltanen

We introduce a unified framework based on bi-level optimization schemes to deal with parameter learning in the context of image processing. The goal is to identify the optimal regularizer within a family depending on a parameter in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Elisa Davoli , Rita Ferreira , Carolin Kreisbeck , Hidde Schönberger

Variational regularization techniques are dominant in the field of mathematical imaging. A drawback of these techniques is that they are dependent on a number of parameters which have to be set by the user. A by now common strategy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

We propose a bilevel optimization approach for the estimation of parameters in nonlocal image denoising models. The parameters we consider are both the fidelity weight and weights within the kernel of the nonlocal operator. In both cases we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-24 M. D'Elia , J. C. De los Reyes , A. Miniguano-Trujillo

In this article we combine the projective Landweber method, recently proposed by the authors, with Kaczmarz's method for solving systems of non-linear ill-posed equations. The underlying assumption used in this work is the tangential cone…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-12 A. Leitao , B. F. Svaiter

We study a class of bilevel convex optimization problems where the goal is to find the minimizer of an objective function in the upper level, among the set of all optimal solutions of an optimization problem in the lower level. A wide range…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Mostafa Amini , Farzad Yousefian

Many optimization problems require hyperparameters, i.e., parameters that must be pre-specified in advance, such as regularization parameters and parametric regularizers in variational regularization methods for inverse problems, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Silvia Gazzola , Sebastian J. Scott

We present a regularization method to approach a solution of the pessimistic formulation of ill -posed bilevel problems . This allows to overcome the difficulty arising from the non uniqueness of the lower level problems solutions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Maïtine Bergounioux , Mounir Haddou

Bayesian inverse problems use observed data to update a prior probability distribution for an unknown state or parameter of a scientific system to a posterior distribution conditioned on the data. In many applications, the unknown parameter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Josie König , Elizabeth Qian , Melina A. Freitag

Bilevel optimization formulates hierarchical decision-making processes that arise in many real-world applications such as in pricing, network design, and infrastructure defense planning. In this paper, we consider a class of bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Geunyeong Byeon , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Many imaging problems require solving an inverse problem that is ill-conditioned or ill-posed. Imaging methods typically address this difficulty by regularising the estimation problem to make it well-posed. This often requires setting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-17 Ana F. Vidal , Valentin De Bortoli , Marcelo Pereyra , Alain Durmus

Image restoration refers to the process of reconstructing noisy, destroyed, or missing parts of an image, which is an ill-posed inverse problem. A specific regularization term and image degradation are typically assumed to achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Jianwei Ke