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This paper addresses planning and control of robot motion under uncertainty that is formulated as a continuous-time, continuous-space stochastic optimal control problem, by developing a topology-guided path integral control method. The path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Jung-Su Ha , Soon-Seo Park , Han-Lim Choi

Many learning tasks represent responses as multivariate probability measures, requiring repeated computation of weighted barycenters in Wasserstein space. In multivariate settings, transport barycenters are often computationally demanding…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-05 Tao Wang , Qiannan Huang , Jun Zhu , Cheng Meng

We consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of a highly-scattering medium from acousto-optic measurements. Using such measurements, we show that the scattering and absorption coefficients of the radiative transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Francis J Chung , John C Schotland

In this work, we develop a Bayesian framework for solving inverse problems in which the unknown parameter belongs to a space of Radon measures taking values in a separable Hilbert space. The inherent ill-posedness of such problems is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Phuoc-Truong Huynh

We derive posterior contraction rates (PCRs) and finite-sample Bernstein von Mises (BvM) results for non-parametric Bayesian models by extending the diffusion-based framework of Mou et al. (2024) to the infinite-dimensional setting. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Enric Alberola-Boloix , Ioar Casado-Telletxea

We study the problem of jointly sparse support recovery with 1-bit compressive measurements in a sensor network. Sensors are assumed to observe sparse signals having the same but unknown sparse support. Each sensor quantizes its measurement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Vipul Gupta , Bhavya Kailkhura , Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

Simple heuristics often show a remarkable performance in practice for optimization problems. Worst-case analysis often falls short of explaining this performance. Because of this, "beyond worst-case analysis" of algorithms has recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Stefan Klootwijk , Bodo Manthey , Sander K. Visser

In this paper, we investigate the recovery of the absorption coefficient from boundary data assuming that the region of interest is illuminated at an initial time. We consider a sufficiently strong and isotropic, but otherwise unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-30 Sebastian Acosta

This paper studies the probabilistic function approximation problem over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We show the existence and uniqueness of the optimizer under mild assumptions. Furthermore, we generalize the celebrated representer…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Dongwei Chen , Kai-Hsiang Wang

This paper studies the formulation, well-posedness, and numerical solution of Bayesian inverse problems on metric graphs, in which the edges represent one-dimensional wires connecting vertices. We focus on the inverse problem of recovering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 David Bolin , Wenwen Li , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

The least gradient problem (minimizing the total variation with given boundary data) is equivalent, in the plane, to the Beckmann minimal-flow problem with source and target measures located on the boundary of the domain, which is in turn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Filippo Santambrogio , Samer Dweik

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a model time-harmonic equation of acoustic tomography of moving fluid with variable current velocity, sound speed, density and absorption. In the present article it is assumed that at fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Alexey Agaltsov

In this note, we propose a probabilistic approach to bound the (dimension-free) Lipschitz constant of the Langevin flow map on $\mathbb{R}^d$ introduced by Kim and Milman (2012). As example of application, we construct Lipschitz maps from a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Giovanni Conforti , Katharina Eichinger

Latent variable models are powerful tools for learning low-dimensional manifolds from high-dimensional data. However, when dealing with constrained data such as unit-norm vectors or symmetric positive-definite matrices, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Leonel Rozo , Miguel González-Duque , Noémie Jaquier , Søren Hauberg

Consider an inverse problem of the simultaneous recovery of boundary impedance and internal conductivity in the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) model using local internal measurement data, which is governed by a boundary value problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Jinchao Pan , Jijun Liu

We consider the inverse problem of determining the permeability from the pressure in a Darcy model of flow in a porous medium. Mathematically the problem is to find the diffusion coefficient for a linear uniformly elliptic partial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-02 Masoumeh Dashti , Andrew M. Stuart

We formulate and solve a Bayesian inverse Navier-Stokes (N-S) problem that assimilates velocimetry data in order to jointly reconstruct a 3D flow field and learn the unknown N-S parameters, including the boundary position. By hardwiring a…

The problem of estimating the dynamic direction of arrival of far field signals impinging on a uniform linear array, with mutual coupling effects, is addressed. This work proposes two novel approaches able to provide accurate solutions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Matthew Hawes , Lyudmila Mihaylova , François Septier , Simon Godsill

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 Massimo Fornasier , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb