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Linear inverse problems are ubiquitous. Often the measurements do not follow a Gaussian distribution. Additionally, a model matrix with a large condition number can complicate the problem further by making it ill-posed. In this case, the…

Reconstructing the unknown spectrum of a given X-ray source is a common problem in a wide range of X-ray imaging tasks. For high-energy sources, transmission measurements are mostly used to recover the X-ray spectrum, as a solution to an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Arthur Walker , Alexandre Friou , Kevin Ginsburger

The eigenvalue problem of a graph Laplacian matrix $L$ arising from a simple, connected and undirected graph has been given more attention due to its extensive applications, such as spectral clustering, community detection, complex network,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Wei-Qiang Huang , Wen-Wei Lin , Henry Horng-Shing Lu , Shing-Tung Yau

We consider the problem of reconstructing an infinite set of sparse, finite-dimensional vectors, that share a common sparsity pattern, from incomplete measurements. This is in contrast to the work [17], where the single vector signal can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Nick Dexter , Hoang Tran , Clayton Webster

We study the inverse problem for the fractional Laplace equation with multiple nonlinear lower order terms. We show that the direct problem is well-posed and the inverse problem is uniquely solvable. More specifically, the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Ru-Yu Lai , Laurel Ohm

We propose a one-dimensional, nonconvex elastic constitutive model with higher gradients that can predict spontaneous fracture at a critical load via a bifurcation analysis. It overcomes the problem of discontinuous deformations without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Phoebus Rosakis , Timothy J. Healey , Ugur Alyanak

This study addresses the modelling of elastic bodies, particularly when the relaxed configuration is unknown or non-existent. We adopt the theory of initially stressed materials, incorporating the deformation gradient and stress state of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-28 M. Magri , D. Riccobelli

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a powerful imaging technique with diverse applications, e.g., medical diagnosis, industrial monitoring, and environmental studies. The EIT inverse problem is about inferring the internal conductivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Derick Nganyu Tanyu , Jianfeng Ning , Andreas Hauptmann , Bangti Jin , Peter Maass

State-of-the-art machine learning models can be vulnerable to very small input perturbations that are adversarially constructed. Adversarial training is an effective approach to defend against such examples. It is formulated as a min-max…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-21 Antônio H. Ribeiro , Dave Zachariah , Thomas B. Schön

Self-supervised learning for inverse problems allows to train a reconstruction network from noise and/or incomplete data alone. These methods have the potential of enabling learning-based solutions when obtaining ground-truth references for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Victor Sechaud , Jérémy Scanvic , Quentin Barthélemy , Patrice Abry , Julián Tachella

We revisit the electromagnetic problem of wave incidence upon a uniform, dissipative dielectric slab of finite thickness. While this problem is easily solved via interface field continuity, we treat it under the viewpoint of radiative…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 J. A. Grzesik

In a large class of statistical inverse problems it is necessary to suppose that the transformation that is inverted is known. Although, in many applications, it is unrealistic to make this assumption, the problem is often insoluble without…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall , Alexander Meister

Inferring the mechanical properties of soft tissues from measured deformations is a fundamental challenge in elastography. A rarely examined assumption underlying existing approaches is that the assumed constitutive law correctly describes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-15 Vincent C. Scholz , P. S. Koutsourelakis

This paper presents a proof-of-concept demonstration of triaxial strain tomography from Bragg-edge neutron imaging within a three-dimensional sample. Bragg-edge neutron transmission can provide high-resolution images of the average through…

In this paper, we investigate an inverse random source problem concerned with recovering the strength of a random, uncorrelated acoustic source from correlation measurements of emitted time-harmonic acoustic waves. Such problems arise in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Philipp Mickan , Thorsten Hohage

Theoretical inverse problems are often studied in an ideal infinite-dimensional setting. The well-posedness theory provides a unique reconstruction of the parameter function, when an infinite amount of data is given. Through the lens of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Ruhui Jin , Qin Li , Anjali Nair , Samuel Stechmann

This paper studies pressure-robustness for the axisymmetric Stokes problem. The transformation to cylindrical coordinates requires that the radially weighted velocity is divergence-free in the classical sense. Consequently, traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Philip L. Lederer , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Christian Merdon , Tim van Beeck

This paper focuses on stability estimates of the inverse random source problems for the polyharmonic, electromagnetic, and elastic wave equations. The source is represented as a microlocally isotropic Gaussian random field, which is defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Peijun Li , Ying Liang , Xu Wang

Inverse design of morphing slender structures with programmable curvature has significant applications in various engineering fields. Most existing studies formulate it as an optimization problem, which requires repeatedly solving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-28 JiaHao Li , Weicheng Huang , YinBo Zhu , Luxia Yu , Xiaohao Sun , Mingchao Liu , HengAn Wu

Modelling the large deformation of hyperelastic solids under plane stress conditions for arbitrary compressible and nearly incompressible material models is challenging. This is in contrast to the case of full incompressibility where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Masoud Ahmadi , Andrew McBride , Paul Steinmann , Prashant Saxena