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This paper tackles optimal sensor placement for Bayesian linear inverse problems, a popular version of the more general Optimal Experimental Design (OED) problem, using the D-optimality criterion. This is done by establishing connections…

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We optimize the path of a mobile sensor to minimize the posterior uncertainty of a Bayesian inverse problem. Along its path, the sensor continuously takes measurements of the state, which is a physical quantity modeled as the solution of a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Nicole Aretz , Thomas Lynn , Karen Willcox , Sven Leyffer

A method is developed for estimating the emission rates of contaminants into the atmosphere from multiple point sources using measurements of particulate material deposited at ground level. The approach is based on a Gaussian plume type…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of sparse signal detection based on partial support set estimation with compressive measurements in a distributed network. Multiple nodes in the network are assumed to observe sparse signals which…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-10 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

Sparse Ising problems can be found in application areas such as logistics, condensed matter physics and training of deep Boltzmann networks, but can be very difficult to tackle with high efficiency and accuracy. This report presents new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Kenneth M. Zick

This paper addresses the problem of sparse phase retrieval, a fundamental inverse problem in applied mathematics, physics, and engineering, where a signal need to be reconstructed using only the magnitude of its transformation while phase…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 The Tien Mai

Identifying a gas source in turbulent environments presents a significant challenge for critical applications such as environmental monitoring and emergency response. This issue is addressed through an approach that combines distributed IoT…

For Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, it is essential to reliably sense and deliver the environmental data on time to avoid system malfunction. While energy harvesting is a promising technique to extend the lifetime of sensor nodes, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Lei Lei , Yiru Kuang , Xuemin , Shen , Kan Yang , Jian Qiao , Zhangdui Zhong

In the first part of the series papers, we set out to answer the following question: given specific restrictions on a set of samplers, what kind of signal can be uniquely represented by the corresponding samples attained, as the foundation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hanshen Xiao , Yaowen Zhang , Guoqiang Xiao

Optimal experimental design (OED) plays an important role in the problem of identifying uncertainty with limited experimental data. In many applications, we seek to minimize the uncertainty of a predicted quantity of interest (QoI) based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Keyi Wu , Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

Optimal design of experiments for Bayesian inverse problems has recently gained wide popularity and attracted much attention, especially in the computational science and Bayesian inversion communities. An optimal design maximizes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Ahmed Attia , Sven Leyffer , Todd Munson

This paper considers the inverse problem of identifying the source term of parabolic equations from sparse boundary measurements. We used data from moving sensors to locate the unknown source term. This work first proves the uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Qiling Gu , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, the sparse sensor placement problem for least-squares estimation is considered, and the previous novel approach of the sparse sensor selection algorithm is extended. The maximization of the determinant of the matrix which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Yuji Saito , Taku Nonomura , Keigo Yamada , Kumi Nakai , Takayuki Nagata , Keisuke Asai , Yasuo Sasaki , Daisuke Tsubakino

The success of the compressed sensing paradigm has shown that a substantial reduction in sampling and storage complexity can be achieved in certain linear and non-adaptive estimation problems. It is therefore an advisable strategy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Peter Jung , Philipp Walk

This paper studies the problem of secure state estimation of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system with bounded noise in the presence of sparse attacks on an unknown, time-varying set of sensors. In other words, at each time, the attacker…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Zishuo Li , Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Changxin Liu , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

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

This paper considers sequential adaptive estimation of sparse signals under a constraint on the total sensing effort. The advantage of adaptivity in this context is the ability to focus more resources on regions of space where signal…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-03 Dennis Wei , Alfred O. Hero

Most existing graph diffusion models have significant bias problems. We observe that the forward diffusion's maximum perturbation distribution in most models deviates from the standard Gaussian distribution, while reverse sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Meng Yu , Kun Zhan

Optimal sensor placement is a central challenge in the design, prediction, estimation, and control of high-dimensional systems. High-dimensional states can often leverage a latent low-dimensional representation, and this inherent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Krithika Manohar , Bingni W. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

In this paper, we propose a sparse signal estimation algorithm that is suitable for many wireless communication systems, especially for the future millimeter wave and underwater communication systems. This algorithm is not only…

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