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Efficient Deconvolution in Populational Inverse Problems

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Arnaud Vadeboncoeur *
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Mark Girolami
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Andrew M. Stuart
DOI:10.1002/nme.70335delete
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This work is focused on the inversion task of inferring the distribution over parameters of interest, leading to multiple sets of observations. The potential to solve such distributional inversion problems is driven by the increasing availability of data, but a major roadblock is blind deconvolution, arising when the observational noise distribution is unknown. However, when data originates from collections of physical systems, a population, it is possible to leverage this information to perform deconvolution. To this end, we propose a methodology leveraging large data sets of observations, collected from different instantiations of the same physical processes, to simultaneously deconvolve the data corrupting noise distribution, and to identify the distribution over model parameters defining the physical processes. A parameter-dependent mathematical model of the physical process is employed. A loss function characterizing the match between the observed data and the output of the mathematical model is defined; it is minimized as a function of both the parameter inputs to the model of the physics and the parameterized observational noise. This coupled problem is addressed with a modified gradient descent algorithm that leverages a specific structure in the noise model. Furthermore, a new active learning scheme is proposed, based on adaptive empirical measures, to train a surrogate model to be accurate in parameter regions of interest; this approach accelerates computation and enables automatic differentiation of black-box, potentially nondifferentiable, code computing parameter-to-solution maps. The proposed methodology is demonstrated on porous medium flow, damped elastodynamics, and simplified models of atmospheric dynamics.
Keywords:
deconvolution
inverse problems
populational inference
surrogate models
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International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering cover
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
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