Nonlinear least squares for inverse problems : theoretical foundations and step-by-step guide for applications

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Nonlinear least squares for inverse problems : theoretical foundations and step-by-step guide for applications

G. Chavent

(Scientific computation)

Springer, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-352) and index

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The domain of inverse problems has experienced a rapid expansion, driven by the increase in computing power and the progress in numerical modeling. When I started working on this domain years ago, I became somehow fr- tratedtoseethatmyfriendsworkingonmodelingwhereproducingexistence, uniqueness, and stability results for the solution of their equations, but that I was most of the time limited, because of the nonlinearity of the problem, to provethatmyleastsquaresobjectivefunctionwasdi?erentiable....Butwith my experience growing, I became convinced that, after the inverse problem has been properly trimmed, the ?nal least squares problem, the one solved on the computer, should be Quadratically (Q)-wellposed,thatis,both we- posed and optimizable: optimizability ensures that a global minimizer of the least squares function can actually be found using e?cient local optimization algorithms, and wellposedness that this minimizer is stable with respect to perturbation of the data. But the vast majority of inverse problems are nonlinear, and the clas- cal mathematical tools available for their analysis fail to bring answers to these crucial questions: for example, compactness will ensure existence, but provides no uniqueness results, and brings no information on the presence or absenceofparasiticlocalminimaorstationarypoints....

Table of Contents

Nonlinear Least Squares.- Nonlinear Inverse Problems: Examples and Difficulties.- Computing Derivatives.- Choosing a Parameterization.- Output Least Squares Identifiability and Quadratically Wellposed NLS Problems.- Regularization of Nonlinear Least Squares Problems.- A generalization of convex sets.- Quasi-Convex Sets.- Strictly Quasi-Convex Sets.- Deflection Conditions for the Strict Quasi-convexity of Sets.

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  • NCID
    BA91868743
  • ISBN
    • 9789048127849
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht ; Heidelberg ; London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 360 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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