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The linear inverse source and scattering problems are studied from the perspective of compressed sensing, in particular the idea that sufficient incoherence and sparsity guarantee uniqueness of the solution. By introducing the sensor as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-19 Albert Fannjiang , Pengchong Yan , Thomas Strohmer

We consider the problem of determining the shape and location of an unknown penetrable object in a perfectly conducting electromagnetic waveguide. The inverse problem is posed in the frequency domain and uses multistatic data in the near…

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We consider the problem of detecting the locations of targets in the far field by sending probing signals from an antenna array and recording the reflected echoes. Drawing on key concepts from the area of compressive sensing, we use an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Max Hügel , Holger Rauhut , Thomas Strohmer

Penalized logistic regression is extremely useful for binary classification with large number of covariates (higher than the sample size), having several real life applications, including genomic disease classification. However, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-10 Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh , María Jaenada , Leandro Pardo

We propose a new approach to the recovery of binary signals in compressed sensing, based on the local minimization of a non-convex cost functional. The desired signal is proved to be a local minimum of the functional under mild conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Sophie M. Fosson

In this paper, given a linear system of equations A x = b, we are finding locations in the plane to place objects such that sending waves from the source points and gathering them at the receiving points solves that linear system of…

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We present an extension of local sensitivity analysis, also referred to as the perturbation approach for uncertainty quantification, to Bayesian inverse problems. More precisely, we show how moments of random variables with respect to the…

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We consider a distributed learning setup where a sparse signal is estimated over a network. Our main interest is to save communication resource for information exchange over the network and reduce processing time. Each node of the network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-03 Ahmed Zaki , Saikat Chatterjee , Partha P. Mitra , Lars K. Rasmussen

This paper is concerned with the factorization method with a single far-field pattern to recover an arbitrary convex polygonal scatterer/source in linear elasticity. The approach also applies to the compressional (resp. shear) part of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Guanqiu Ma , Guanghui Hu

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in mathematical models leading to the minimization, in a symmetric matrix space, of a Bregman divergence coupled with a regularization term. We address problems of this type within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 A. Benfenati , E. Chouzenoux , J. -C. Pesquet

The paper describes a numerical method for solving acoustic multibody scattering problems in two and three dimensions. The idea is to compute a highly accurate approximation to the scattering operator for each body through a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Yunhui Cai , Joar Bagge , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

We develop and analyze stochastic optimization algorithms for problems in which the expected loss is strongly convex, and the optimum is (approximately) sparse. Previous approaches are able to exploit only one of these two structures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-19 Alekh Agarwal , Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

Locating a target is key in many applications, namely in high-stakes real-world scenarios, like detecting humans or obstacles in vehicular networks. In scenarios where precise statistics of the measurement noise are unavailable,…

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In this paper, we study the inverse medium scattering problem to reconstruct unknown inhomogeneous medium from far field patterns of scattered waves. In the first part of our work, the linear inverse scattering problem was discussed, while…

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Atmospheric lidar observations provide a unique capability to directly observe the vertical column of cloud and aerosol scattering properties. Detector and solar background noise, however, hinder the ability of lidar systems to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Willem J. Marais , Robert E. Holz , Yu Hen Hu , Ralph E. Kuehn , Edwin E. Eloranta , Rebecca M. Willett

The forward-backward splitting algorithm is a popular operator-splitting method for solving monotone inclusion of the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a cocoercive operator. In this paper, we present a new convergence analysis of a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Fuying Cui , Yuchao Tang , Chuanxi Zhu

This paper concerns the performance of the LASSO (also knows as basis pursuit denoising) for recovering sparse signals from undersampled, randomized, noisy measurements. We consider the recovery of the signal $x_o \in \mathbb{R}^N$ from $n$…

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