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Sequential Bayesian optimal experimental design (SBOED) for PDE-governed inverse problems is computationally challenging, especially for infinite-dimensional random field parameters. High-fidelity approaches require repeated forward and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Kaichen Shen , Peng Chen

We consider infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) and develop a mathematical and computational framework for optimal design of mobile sensor paths in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 J. Nicholas Neuberger , Alen Alexanderian , Bart van Bloemen Waanders , Ahmed Attia

We present a method for computing A-optimal sensor placements for infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by PDEs with irreducible model uncertainties. Here, irreducible uncertainties refers to uncertainties in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Karina Koval , Alen Alexanderian , Georg Stadler

Real-time tsunami early warning relies on distributed sensor networks to infer seismic sources and seafloor motion. Optimizing these networks via Bayesian optimal experimental design (OED) is exceptionally challenging for systems governed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sreeram Venkat , Stefan Henneking , Omar Ghattas

The design of multiple experiments is commonly undertaken via suboptimal strategies, such as batch (open-loop) design that omits feedback or greedy (myopic) design that does not account for future effects. This paper introduces new…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-29 Xun Huan , Youssef M. Marzouk

Bayesian optimal sensor placement, in its full generality, seeks to maximize the mutual information between uncertain model parameters and the predicted data to be collected from the sensors for the purpose of performing Bayesian inference.…

Applications · Statistics 2019-06-17 Pinaky Bhattacharyya , James L. Beck

The computationally-efficient solution of fully non-linear microwave inverse scattering problems (ISPs) is addressed. An innovative System-by-Design (SbD) based method is proposed to enable, for the first time to the best of the authors…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Marco Salucci , Lorenzo Poli , Paolo Rocca , Andrea Massa

We address the solution of large-scale Bayesian optimal experimental design (OED) problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) with infinite-dimensional parameter fields. The OED problem seeks to find sensor locations that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Keyi Wu , Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry , Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

We address an optimal sensor placement problem through Bayesian experimental design for seismic full waveform inversion for the recovery of the associated moment tensor. The objective is that of optimally choosing the location of the…

We develop a fast and scalable computational framework to solve large-scale and high-dimensional Bayesian optimal experimental design problems. In particular, we consider the problem of optimal observation sensor placement for Bayesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Keyi Wu , Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

We propose an optimization algorithm to compute the optimal sensor locations in experimental design in the formulation of Bayesian inverse problems, where the parameter-to-observable mapping is described through an integral equation and its…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-30 Jing Yu , Mihai Anitescu

The problem of optimally placing sensors under a cost constraint arises naturally in the design of industrial and commercial products, as well as in scientific experiments. We consider a relaxation of the full optimization formulation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Emily Clark , Travis Askham , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

We consider the utilization of a computational model to guide the optimal acquisition of experimental data to inform the stochastic description of model input parameters. Our formulation is based on the recently developed consistent…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-04 Scott N. Walsh , Tim M. Wildey , John D. Jakeman

In this paper, a novel model-based distributed compressive sensing (DCS) algorithm is proposed. DCS exploits the inter-signal correlations and has the capability to jointly recover multiple sparse signals. Proposed approach is a Bayesian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-19 Razieh Torkamani , Hadi Zayyani , Ramazan Ali Sadeghzadeh

This paper presents a novel framework for goal-oriented optimal static sensor placement and dynamic sensor steering in PDE-constrained inverse problems, utilizing a Bayesian approach accelerated by low-rank approximations. The framework is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Marco Mattuschka , Noah An der Lan , Max von Danwitz , Daniel Wolff , Alexander Popp

A critical decision process in data acquisition for mineral and energy resource exploration is how to efficiently combine a variety of sensor types and to minimize total cost. We propose a probabilistic framework for multi-objective…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sebastian Haan , Fabio Ramos , Dietmar Müller

Sampling-based algorithms are classical approaches to perform Bayesian inference in inverse problems. They provide estimators with the associated credibility intervals to quantify the uncertainty on the estimators. Although these methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-28 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Audrey Repetti , Pierre Chainais

We present a novel stochastic approach to binary optimization for optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian inverse problems governed by mathematical models such as partial differential equations. The OED utility function, namely, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Ahmed Attia , Sven Leyffer , Todd Munson

We present a flexible method for computing Bayesian optimal experimental designs (BOEDs) for inverse problems with intractable posteriors. The approach is applicable to a wide range of BOED problems and can accommodate various optimality…

Computation · Statistics 2024-08-20 Karina Koval , Roland Herzog , Robert Scheichl