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Inverse problems are fundamental to science and engineering, where the goal is to infer an underlying signal or state from incomplete or noisy measurements. Recent approaches employ diffusion models as powerful implicit priors for such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Bilal Ahmed , Joseph G. Makin

When an inverse problem is solved by a gradient-based optimization algorithm, the corresponding forward and adjoint problems, which are introduced to compute the gradient, can be also solved iteratively. The idea of iterating at the same…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Marcella Bonazzoli , Houssem Haddar , Tuan Anh Vu

We consider inverse problems in Hilbert spaces under correlated Gaussian noise and use a Bayesian approach to find their regularised solution. We focus on mildly ill-posed inverse problems with the noise being generalised derivative of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Natalia Bochkina , Jenovah Rodrigues

An inverse scattering problem is formulated for reconstructing optical properties of biological tissues. A recursive linearization algorithm is used to solve the inverse scattering problem. We employed the idea of finite element boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Ying Li

Nonlinear least squares data-fitting driven by physical process simulation is a classic and widely successful technique for the solution of inverse problems in science and engineering. Known as "Full Waveform Inversion" in application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 William W. Symes

We propose to solve inverse problems involving the temporal evolution of physics systems by leveraging recent advances from diffusion models. Our method moves the system's current state backward in time step by step by combining an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Benjamin J. Holzschuh , Simona Vegetti , Nils Thuerey

This article reviews some of the leading results obtained in solar dynamo physics by using temporal oscillator models as a tool to interpret observational data and dynamo model predictions. We discuss how solar observational data such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Ilídio Lopes , Dário Passos , Melinda Nagy , Kristof Petrovay

Finding a computationally efficient algorithm for the inverse continuous wavelet transform is a fundamental topic in applications. In this paper, we show the convergence of the inverse wavelet transform.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-01 Wenchang Sun

This paper reviews recent results on hybrid inverse problems, which are also called coupled-physics inverse problems of multi-wave inverse problems. Inverse problems tend to be most useful in, e.g., medical and geophysical imaging, when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-24 Guillaume Bal

We introduce a technique for recovering a sufficiently smooth function from its ray transform over a wide class of curves in a general region of Euclidean space. The method is based on a complexification of the underlying vector fields…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-11-17 Nicholas Hoell , Guillaume Bal

We study forecasting capabilities of the methods of Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) and Local Approximation (LA). A practical implementation of these methods to several time series is described. Details of the algorithms of these methods…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Loskutov , I. Istomin , O. Kotlyarov

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

The motivation of this work is an inverse problem for the acoustic wave equation, where an array of sensors probes an unknown medium with pulses and measures the scattered waves. The goal of the inversion is to determine from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

Basement relief gravimetry is crucial in geophysics, especially for oil exploration and mineral prospecting. It involves solving an inverse problem to infer geological model parameters from observed data. The model represents basement…

We extend sharp direct and inverse approximation statements for kernel-based methods for finitely smooth kernels, i.e. those whose native spaces are norm-equivalent to Sobolev spaces. In particular, our inverse results are now formulated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Sara Avesani , Leevan Ling , Francesco Marchetti , Tizian Wenzel

Rotation is an important, yet poorly-modelled phenomenon of stellar structure and evolution. Accurate estimates of internal rotation rates are therefore valuable for constraining stellar evolution models. We aim to assess the accuracy of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 F. Ahlborn , E. P. Bellinger , S. Hekker , S. Basu , D. Mokrytska

The star transform is a generalized Radon transform mapping a function of two variables to its integrals along "star-shaped" trajectories, which consist of a finite number of rays emanating from a common vertex. Such operators appear in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Gaik Ambartsoumian , Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli

The Sun is the most studied of all stars. It is a reference for all other observed stars and a laboratory of fundamental physics helping us understand processes occuring in conditions irreproducible on Earth. However, our understanding of…

The current status of the high spatial resolution imaging interferometry in optical astronomy is reviewed in the light of theoretical explanation, as well as of experimental constraints that exist in the present day technology. The basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Saha

In this paper, we derive explicit reconstruction formulas for two common measurement geometries: a plane and a sphere. The problem is formulated as inverting the forward operator $R^a$, which maps the initial source to the measured wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Cong Shi