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A new sampling method for inverse scattering problems is proposed to process far field data of one incident wave. As the linear sampling method, the method sets up ill-posed integral equations and uses the (approximate) solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Juan Liu , Jiguang Sun

Deep generative models are powerful priors for imaging inverse problems, but training-free solvers for latent flow models face a practical finite-step trade-off. Optimization-heavy methods quickly improve measurement consistency, but in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jonghyun Park , Jong Chul Ye

Sparse structure learning in high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models is an important problem in multivariate statistical signal processing; since the sparsity pattern naturally encodes the conditional independence relationship among…

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Image Phase Alignment Super-Sampling (ImPASS) is a computational imaging algorithm for converting a sequence of displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The method consists of a unique combination of Phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-01 James N. Caron

Image retrieval can be formulated as a ranking problem where the goal is to order database images by decreasing similarity to the query. Recent deep models for image retrieval have outperformed traditional methods by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Jerome Revaud , Jon Almazan , Rafael Sampaio de Rezende , Cesar Roberto de Souza

Undersampling the k-space during MR acquisitions saves time, however results in an ill-posed inversion problem, leading to an infinite set of images as possible solutions. Traditionally, this is tackled as a reconstruction problem by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Kerem C. Tezcan , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

We consider the problem of sampling from a posterior distribution arising in Bayesian inverse problems in science, engineering, and imaging. Our method belongs to the family of independence Metropolis-Hastings (IMH) sampling algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Youguang Chen , George Biros

In a non supervised Bayesian estimation approach for inverse problems in imaging systems, one tries to estimate jointly the unknown image pixels $f$ and the hyperparameters $\theta$ given the observed data $g$ and a model $M$ linking these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Ali Mohammad-Djafari

Understanding transition pathways between two meta-stable states of a molecular system is crucial to advance drug discovery and material design. However, unbiased molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are computationally infeasible because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kiyoung Seong , Seonghyun Park , Seonghwan Kim , Woo Youn Kim , Sungsoo Ahn

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has been pivotal for leveraging pre-trained diffusion models in downstream tasks such as inverse problems, but it faces two major challenges: $(i)$ mode collapse and $(ii)$ latent space inversion, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nicolas Zilberstein , Morteza Mardani , Santiago Segarra

In a non supervised Bayesian estimation approach for inverse problems in imaging systems, one tries to estimate jointly the unknown image pixels $\fb$ and the hyperparameters $\thetab$. This is, in general, done through the joint posterior…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-06-14 Ali Mohammad-Djafari

Despite the enormous success of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and related Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, sampling often still represents the computational bottleneck in scientific applications. Availability of parallel resources can…

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In recent years we have witnessed a growth in mathematics for deep learning, which has been used to solve inverse problems of partial differential equations (PDEs). However, most deep learning-based inversion methods either require paired…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Enze Jiang , Jishen Peng , Zheng Ma , Xiong-Bin Yan

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a powerful tool for statistical text analysis, with derived sequences of next-token probability distributions offering a wealth of information. Extracting this signal typically relies on metrics such as…

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by an unbounded, locally rough interface which is assumed to be a local perturbation of a plane. The purpose of this paper is to recover the local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Jianliang Li , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

Sampling-based algorithms solve the path planning problem by generating random samples in the search-space and incrementally growing a connectivity graph or a tree. Conventionally, the sampling strategy used in these algorithms is biased…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Sagar Suhas Joshi , Seth Hutchinson , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Machine learning for weather prediction increasingly relies on ensemble methods to provide probabilistic forecasts. Diffusion-based models have shown strong performance in Limited-Area Modeling (LAM) but remain computationally expensive at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Erik Larsson , Joel Oskarsson , Tomas Landelius , Fredrik Lindsten

Capturing the global topology of an image is essential for proposing an accurate segmentation of its domain. However, most of existing segmentation methods do not preserve the initial topology of the given input, which is detrimental for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Minh On Vu Ngoc , Yizi Chen , Nicolas Boutry , Jonathan Fabrizio , Clement Mallet