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In many Bayesian inverse problems the goal is to recover a spatially varying random field. Such problems are often computationally challenging especially when the forward model is governed by complex partial differential equations (PDEs).…
This paper proposes an effective treatment of hyperparameters in the Bayesian inference of a scalar field from indirect observations. Obtaining the joint posterior distribution of the field and its hyperparameters is challenging. The…
This paper addresses model dimensionality reduction for Bayesian inference based on prior Gaussian fields with uncertainty in the covariance function hyper-parameters. The dimensionality reduction is traditionally achieved using the…
In this note, we consider the truncated Karhunen-Lo\`eve expansion for approximating solutions to infinite dimensional inverse problems. We show that, under certain conditions, the bound of the error between a solution and its…
The Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve (KL) expansion is a popular method for approximating random fields by transforming an infinite-dimensional stochastic domain into a finite-dimensional parameter space. Its numerical approximation is of central…
Numerical computation of the Karhunen--Lo\`eve expansion is computationally challenging in terms of both memory requirements and computing time. We compare two state-of-the-art methods that claim to efficiently solve for the K--L expansion:…
Axially symmetric processes on spheres, for which the second-order dependency structure may substantially vary with shifts in latitude, are a prominent alternative to model the spatial uncertainty of natural variables located over large…
We present a new physics-informed machine learning approach for the inversion of PDE models with heterogeneous parameters. In our approach, the space-dependent partially-observed parameters and states are approximated via Karhunen-Lo\`eve…
We present a novel method to model and calculate deformation fields between shapes embedded in $\mathbb{R}^D$. Our framework combines naturally interpolating the two input shapes and calculating correspondences at the same time. The key…
This paper presents a new Bayesian estimation technique for hidden Potts-Markov random fields with unknown regularisation parameters, with application to fast unsupervised K-class image segmentation. The technique is derived by first…
We consider biotransport in tumors with uncertain heterogeneous material properties. Specifically, we focus on the elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) modeling the pressure field inside the tumor. The permeability field is modeled…
We present an adaptive algorithm for the computation of quantities of interest involving the solution of a stochastic elliptic PDE where the diffusion coefficient is parametrized by means of a Karhunen-Lo\`eve expansion. The approximation…
This work introduces structure preserving hierarchical decompositions for sampling Gaussian random fields (GRF) within the context of multilevel Bayesian inference in high-dimensional space. Existing scalable hierarchical sampling methods,…
This paper proposes a novel computationally efficient dynamic bi-orthogonality based approach for calibration of a computer simulator with high dimensional parametric and model structure uncertainty. The proposed method is based on a…
The Karhunen-Lo\`eve Expansion (KLE) of a stochastic process is a well understood eigenfunction expansion used widely in time series analysis, stochastic PDEs, and signal processing. Karhunen-Lo\`eve expansions have also been proven to…
We introduce a novel geometry-informed irreversible perturbation that accelerates convergence of the Langevin algorithm for Bayesian computation. It is well documented that there exist perturbations to the Langevin dynamics that preserve…
This paper proposes a fast two-stage variational Bayesian (VB) algorithm to estimate unrestricted panel spatial autoregressive models. Using Dirichlet-Laplace priors, we are able to uncover the spatial relationships between cross-sectional…
This work presents a model reduction approach to the inverse problem in the application of subsurface flows. For the Bayesian inverse problem, the forward model needs to be repeatedly computed for a large number of samples to get a…
The Karhunen-Lo\`eve series expansion (KLE) decomposes a stochastic process into an infinite series of pairwise uncorrelated random variables and pairwise $L^2$-orthogonal functions. For any given truncation order of the infinite series the…
Gaussian random fields are popular models for spatially varying uncertainties, arising for instance in geotechnical engineering, hydrology or image processing. A Gaussian random field is fully characterised by its mean function and…