English
Related papers

Related papers: Well-posedness and trivial solutions to inverse ei…

200 papers

Many important problems are characterized by the eigenvalues of a large matrix. For example, the difficulty of many optimization problems, such as those arising from the fitting of large models in statistics and machine learning, can be…

Inverse problems in statistical physics are motivated by the challenges of `big data' in different fields, in particular high-throughput experiments in biology. In inverse problems, the usual procedure of statistical physics needs to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-07 H. Chau Nguyen , Riccardo Zecchina , Johannes Berg

Machine learning techniques for the solution of inverse problems have become an attractive approach in the last decade, while their theoretical foundations are still in their infancy. In this chapter we want to pursue the study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Martin Burger , Samira Kabri , Gitta Kutyniok , Yunseok Lee , Lukas Weigand

Despite strong performance in numerous applications, the fragility of deep learning to input perturbations has raised serious questions about its use in safety-critical domains. While adversarial training can mitigate this issue in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-01 Alexander Robey , Luiz F. O. Chamon , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani , Alejandro Ribeiro

Inverse normal transformations applied to the partially overlapping samples t-tests by Derrick et.al. (2017) are considered for their Type I error robustness and power. The inverse normal transformation solutions proposed in this paper are…

Computation · Statistics 2017-08-02 Ben Derrick , Paul White , Deirdre Toher

Study of a simple single-trace transmission example shows how an extended source formulation of full-waveform inversion can produce an optimization problem without spurious local minima ("cycle skipping"), hence efficiently solvable via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 William W. Symes , Huiyi Chen , Susan E. Minkoff

We study forward and inverse problems for a semilinear radiative transport model where the absorption coefficient depends on the angular average of the transport solution. Our first result is the well-posedness theory for the transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kui Ren , Yimin Zhong

In this paper I present a new approach for regression of time series using their own samples. This is a celebrated problem known as Auto-Regression. Dealing with outlier or missed samples in a time series makes the problem of estimation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Mohsen Joneidi

This paper is concerned with the stability estimates for inverse source problems of the stochastic Helmholtz equation driven by white noise. The well-posedness is established for the direct source problems, which ensures the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Peijun Li , Ying Liang

Inverse problems arise in a variety of imaging applications including computed tomography, non-destructive testing, and remote sensing. The characteristic features of inverse problems are the non-uniqueness and instability of their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Markus Haltmeier , Linh V. Nguyen

We consider the solution of large-scale nonlinear algebraic Hermitian eigenproblems of the form $T(\lambda)v=0$ that admit a variational characterization of eigenvalues. These problems arise in a variety of applications and are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Daniel B. Szyld , Eugene Vecharynski , Fei Xue

Eigenvalue problems serve as fundamental substrates for applications in large-scale scientific simulations and machine learning, often requiring computation on massively parallel platforms. As these platforms scale to hundreds of thousands…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Jayanta Mukherjee , Xuejiao Kang , David F. Gleich , Ahmed Sameh , Ananth Grama

Many inverse problems arising in engineering and applied sciences involve unknown quantities with pronounced spatial inhomogeneity, such as localized defects or spatially varying material properties, making reliable uncertainty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Tomas Soto , Mirza Karamehmedovic , Lassi Roininen

The objective of this work is to quantify the reconstruction error in sparse inverse problems with measures and stochastic noise, motivated by optimal sensor placement. To be useful in this context, the error quantities must be explicit in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Phuoc-Truong Huynh , Konstantin Pieper , Daniel Walter

In this work, we study the numerical solution of inverse eigenvalue problems from a machine learning perspective. Two different problems are considered: the inverse Strum-Liouville eigenvalue problem for symmetric potentials and the inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Nikolaos Pallikarakis , Andreas Ntargaras

Image segmentation is an inherently ill-posed problem and thus requires regularization in order to limit the search space to reasonable solutions. A majority of segmentation methods integrates these regularization terms in one way or the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Uri Nahum , Philippe C. Cattin

The eigenvalue problem plays a central role in linear algebra and its applications in control and optimization methods. In particular, many matrix decompositions rely upon computation of eigenvalue-eigenvector pairs, such as diagonal or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Pavel Osinenko , Grigory Devadze , Stefan Streif

We develop and analyse residual-based a posteriori error estimates for the virtual element discretisation of a nonlinear stress-assisted diffusion problem in two and three dimensions. The model problem involves a two-way coupling between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Franco Dassi , Rekha Khot , Andres E. Rubiano , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

Assume you encounter an inverse problem that shall be solved for a large number of data, but no ground-truth data is available. To emulate this encounter, in this study, we assume it is unknown how to solve the imaging problem of Computed…

We present an a posteriori error estimate based on equilibrated stress reconstructions for the finite element approximation of a unilateral contact problem with weak enforcement of the contact conditions. We start by proving a guaranteed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Daniele Antonio Di Pietro , Ilaria Fontana , Kyrylo Kazymyrenko