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Process of calculating the causal factors that produced a set of observations

An inverse problem in science is the process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them: for example, calculating an image in X-ray computed tomography, source reconstruction in acoustics, or calculating the density of the Earth from measurements of its gravity field. It is called an inverse problem because it starts with the effects and then calculates the causes. It is the inverse of a forward problem, which starts with the causes and then calculates the effects. Wikipedia →

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  2. Skim a recent paper: Gradient-enhanced physics-informed neural networks for forward and inverse PDE problemsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Introduction to Inverse Problems in ImagingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equationsCited 20,944 times
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