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20172026
most citedStructure Preserving Model Reduction of Parametric Hamiltonian Systems

100 citations · 125 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

stat.ME2026

B-GRASP: A Bayesian Framework for Inferring Graph Weights from SPDE-Inspired Dynamics

Christina Schenk, Babak Maboudi Afkham

We present B-GRASP (Bayesian GRAph inference with SPDE priors), a Bayesian framework for inferring uncertain edge weights in stochastic dynamical systems on graphs from noisy obser…

math.NA2026

3D Uncertainty Quantification for Photoacoustic Tomography

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Amal Mohammed A Alghami, Hassan Yazdanian +1

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a promising modality for high-resolution biomedical imaging, motivating the need for reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) of reconstructed ima…

math.NA2026

Adjoint-Based Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for PDE-Constrained Inverse Problems with Application to Semiconductor Imaging

Hassan Yazdanian, Leila Taghizadeh, Babak Maboudi Afkham

We formulate a Bayesian framework for reconstructing doping profiles in pn-junction semiconductor devices from boundary flux measurements. The unknown doping field is modeled as a…

math.NA2026

QVaR: a Quantum Variational Regularization method for Linear Inverse Problems

Siiri Rautio, Hjørdis Schlüter, Andreas Hauptmann +1

We present a tailored framework for solving regularized linear inverse problems using quantum optimization methods. By discretizing the solution space and encoding data fidelity an…

math.AP2026

Bayesian Formulation of Acousto-Electric Tomography and Quantified Uncertainty in Limited View

Hjørdis Schlüter, Babak Maboudi Afkham

Acousto-electric tomography (AET) is a hybrid imaging modality that combines electrical impedance tomography with focused ultrasound perturbations to obtain interior power density…

math.NA2026

Inhomogeneous Priors for Bayesian Inverse Problems

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Tomas Soto, Mirza Karamehmedovic +1

Many inverse problems arising in engineering and applied sciences involve unknown quantities with pronounced spatial inhomogeneity, such as localized defects or spatially varying m…

stat.AP2026

Simultaneous Estimation of Seabed and Its Roughness With Longitudinal Waves

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Ana Carpio

This paper introduces an infinite-dimensional Bayesian framework for acoustic seabed tomography, leveraging wave scattering to simultaneously estimate the seabed and its roughness.…

cs.LG2026

Neural Optimal Design of Experiment for Inverse Problems

John E. Darges, Babak Maboudi Afkham, Matthias Chung

We introduce Neural Optimal Design of Experiments, a learning-based framework for optimal experimental design in inverse problems that avoids classical bilevel optimization and ind…

stat.CO2025★ 1 cited

Bayesian decomposition using Besov priors

Andreas Horst, Babak Maboudi Afkham, Yiqiu Dong +1

In many inverse problems, the unknown is composed of multiple components with different regularities, for example, in imaging problems, where the unknown can have both rough and sm…

math.ST2023

A Bayesian approach for consistent reconstruction of inclusions

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Kim Knudsen, Aksel Kaastrup Rasmussen +1

This paper considers a Bayesian approach for inclusion detection in nonlinear inverse problems using two known and popular push-forward prior distributions: the star-shaped and lev…

math.NA2023★ 11 cited

CUQIpy: II. Computational uncertainty quantification for PDE-based inverse problems in Python

Amal M A Alghamdi, Nicolai A B Riis, Babak M Afkham +4

Inverse problems, particularly those governed by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), are prevalent in various scientific and engineering applications, and uncertainty quantifica…

math.NA2023★ 13 cited

CUQIpy: I. Computational uncertainty quantification for inverse problems in Python

Nicolai A B Riis, Amal M A Alghamdi, Felipe Uribe +4

This paper introduces CUQIpy, a versatile open-source Python package for computational uncertainty quantification (UQ) in inverse problems, presented as Part I of a two-part series…

math.NA2023

Goal-oriented Uncertainty Quantification for Inverse Problems via Variational Encoder-Decoder Networks

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Julianne Chung, Matthias Chung

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses variational encoder-decoder (VED) networks for efficient goal-oriented uncertainty quantification for inverse problems. Contrary…

math.NA2021

Uncertainty Quantification of Inclusion Boundaries in the Context of X-ray Tomography

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Yiqiu Dong, Per Christian Hansen

In this work, we describe a Bayesian framework for reconstructing the boundaries of piecewise smooth regions in the X-ray computed tomography (CT) problem in an infinite-dimensiona…

math.NA2021

Learning Regularization Parameters of Inverse Problems via Deep Neural Networks

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Julianne Chung, Matthias Chung

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning ap…

math.NA2018

Symplectic Model-Reduction with a Weighted Inner Product

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Ashish Bhatt, Bernard Haasdonk +1

In the recent years, considerable attention has been paid to preserving structures and invariants in reduced basis methods, in order to enhance the stability and robustness of the…

math.NA2017★ 100 cited

Structure Preserving Model Reduction of Parametric Hamiltonian Systems

Babak Maboudi Afkham, Jan S. Hesthaven

While reduced-order models (ROMs) have been popular for efficiently solving large systems of differential equations, the stability of reduced models over long-time integration is o…