Author(s):  
Helcio R. B. Orlande

Systematic methods for the solution of inverse problems have developed significantly during the last twenty years and have become a powerful tool for analysis and design in engineering. Inverse analysis is nowadays a common practice in which the groups involved with experiments and numerical simulation synergistically collaborate throughout the research work, in order to obtain the maximum of information regarding the physical problem under study. Inverse problems are mathematically classified as ill-posed, that is, their solutions do not satisfy either one of the requirements of existence, uniqueness or stability. The solution approaches generally consist of the reformulation of the inverse problem in terms of an approximate well-posed problem. In this paper we briefly review various approaches for the solution of inverse problems, including those based on classical regularization techniques and those based on the Bayesian statistics. Applications of inverse problems are then presented for cases of practical interest, such as the characterization of non-homogeneous materials and the prediction of the temperature field in oil pipelines.


Author(s):  
Mikhail Y. Kokurin

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to discuss and illustrate the fact that conditionally well-posed problems stand out among all ill-posed problems as being regularizable via an operator independent of the level of errors in input data. We give examples of corresponding purely data driven regularizing algorithms for various classes of conditionally well-posed inverse problems and optimization problems in the context of deterministic and stochastic error models.


1983 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 1237-1245 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. M. Alifanov
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2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 829-847
Author(s):  
Hua Huang ◽  
Chengwu Lu ◽  
Lingli Zhang ◽  
Weiwei Wang

AbstractThe projection data obtained using the computed tomography (CT) technique are often incomplete and inconsistent owing to the radiation exposure and practical environment of the CT process, which may lead to a few-view reconstruction problem. Reconstructing an object from few projection views is often an ill-posed inverse problem. To solve such problems, regularization is an effective technique, in which the ill-posed problem is approximated considering a family of neighboring well-posed problems. In this study, we considered the {\ell_{1/2}} regularization to solve such ill-posed problems. Subsequently, the half thresholding algorithm was employed to solve the {\ell_{1/2}} regularization-based problem. The convergence analysis of the proposed method was performed, and the error bound between the reference image and reconstructed image was clarified. Finally, the stability of the proposed method was analyzed. The result of numerical experiments demonstrated that the proposed method can outperform the classical reconstruction algorithms in terms of noise suppression and preserving the details of the reconstructed image.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 573
Author(s):  
Marzia Sara Vaccaro ◽  
Francesco Paolo Pinnola ◽  
Francesco Marotti de Sciarra ◽  
Raffaele Barretta

The simplest elasticity model of the foundation underlying a slender beam under flexure was conceived by Winkler, requiring local proportionality between soil reactions and beam deflection. Such an approach leads to well-posed elastostatic and elastodynamic problems, but as highlighted by Wieghardt, it provides elastic responses that are not technically significant for a wide variety of engineering applications. Thus, Winkler’s model was replaced by Wieghardt himself by assuming that the beam deflection is the convolution integral between soil reaction field and an averaging kernel. Due to conflict between constitutive and kinematic compatibility requirements, the corresponding elastic problem of an inflected beam resting on a Wieghardt foundation is ill-posed. Modifications of the original Wieghardt model were proposed by introducing fictitious boundary concentrated forces of constitutive type, which are physically questionable, being significantly influenced on prescribed kinematic boundary conditions. Inherent difficulties and issues are overcome in the present research using a displacement-driven nonlocal integral strategy obtained by swapping the input and output fields involved in Wieghardt’s original formulation. That is, nonlocal soil reaction fields are the output of integral convolutions of beam deflection fields with an averaging kernel. Equipping the displacement-driven nonlocal integral law with the bi-exponential averaging kernel, an equivalent nonlocal differential problem, supplemented with non-standard constitutive boundary conditions involving nonlocal soil reactions, is established. As a key implication, the integrodifferential equations governing the elastostatic problem of an inflected elastic slender beam resting on a displacement-driven nonlocal integral foundation are replaced with much simpler differential equations supplemented with kinematic, static, and new constitutive boundary conditions. The proposed nonlocal approach is illustrated by examining and analytically solving exemplar problems of structural engineering. Benchmark solutions for numerical analyses are also detected.


Author(s):  
C. W. Groetsch ◽  
Martin Hanke

Abstract A simple numerical method for some one-dimensional inverse problems of model identification type arising in nonlinear heat transfer is discussed. The essence of the method is to express the nonlinearity in terms of an integro-differential operator, the values of which are approximated by a linear spline technique. The inverse problems are mildly ill-posed and therefore call for regularization when data errors are present. A general technique for stabilization of unbounded operators may be applied to regularize the process and a specific regularization technique is illustrated on a model problem.


Author(s):  
Mingyong Zhou

Background: Complex inverse problems such as Radar Imaging and CT/EIT imaging are well investigated in mathematical algorithms with various regularization methods. However it is difficult to obtain stable inverse solutions with fast convergence and high accuracy at the same time due to the ill-posed property and non-linear property. Objective: In this paper, we propose a hierarchical and multi-resolution scalable method from both algorithm perspective and hardware perspective to achieve fast and accurate solu-tions for inverse problems by taking radar and EIT imaging as examples. Method: We present an extension of discussion on neuromorphic computing as brain-inspired computing method and the learning/training algorithm to design a series of problem specific AI “brains” (with different memristive values) to solve a general complex ill-posed inverse problems that are traditionally solved by mathematical regular operators. We design a hierarchical and multi-resolution scalable method and an algorithm framework to train AI deep learning neuron network and map into the memristive circuit so that the memristive val-ues are optimally obtained. We propose FPGA as an emulation implementation for neuro-morphic circuit as well. Result: We compared the methodology between our approach and traditional regulariza-tion method. In particular we use Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) and Radar imaging as typical examples to compare how to design an AI deep learning neuron network architec-tures to solve inverse problems. Conclusion: With EIT imaging as a typical example, we show that any moderate complex inverse problem, as long as it can be described as combinational problem, AI deep learning neuron network is a practical alternative approach to try to solve the inverse problems with any given expected resolution accuracy, as long as the neuron network width is large enough and computational power is strong enough for all combination samples training purpose.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Kontak ◽  
Volker Michel

Abstract In this work, we present the so-called Regularized Weak Functional Matching Pursuit (RWFMP) algorithm, which is a weak greedy algorithm for linear ill-posed inverse problems. In comparison to the Regularized Functional Matching Pursuit (RFMP), on which it is based, the RWFMP possesses an improved theoretical analysis including the guaranteed existence of the iterates, the convergence of the algorithm for inverse problems in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, and a convergence rate, which is also valid for the particular case of the RFMP. Another improvement is the cancellation of the previously required and difficult to verify semi-frame condition. Furthermore, we provide an a-priori parameter choice rule for the RWFMP, which yields a convergent regularization. Finally, we will give a numerical example, which shows that the “weak” approach is also beneficial from the computational point of view. By applying an improved search strategy in the algorithm, which is motivated by the weak approach, we can save up to 90  of computation time in comparison to the RFMP, whereas the accuracy of the solution does not change as much.


Author(s):  
Risheng Liu

Numerous tasks at the core of statistics, learning, and vision areas are specific cases of ill-posed inverse problems. Recently, learning-based (e.g., deep) iterative methods have been empirically shown to be useful for these problems. Nevertheless, integrating learnable structures into iterations is still a laborious process, which can only be guided by intuitions or empirical insights. Moreover, there is a lack of rigorous analysis of the convergence behaviors of these reimplemented iterations, and thus the significance of such methods is a little bit vague. We move beyond these limits and propose a theoretically guaranteed optimization learning paradigm, a generic and provable paradigm for nonconvex inverse problems, and develop a series of convergent deep models. Our theoretical analysis reveals that the proposed optimization learning paradigm allows us to generate globally convergent trajectories for learning-based iterative methods. Thanks to the superiority of our framework, we achieve state-of-the-art performance on different real applications.


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