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This research introduces the Ensemble-conditioned Inverse Problem (EIP), a novel statistical framework designed to reconstruct true distributions from distorted observations without relying on iterative forward models during inference. By leveraging conditional generative models trained on diverse prior-observation pairs, the method implicitly encodes likelihoods to enable direct posterior sampling in high-energy physics and inverse imaging. This advancement addresses critical bottlenecks in computational efficiency for complex reconstruction tasks where traditional unfolding techniques are computationally prohibitive.
Inverse Problems Conditioned on Observation Ensembles: Applications and Methods
arXiv:2601.22029v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a new multivariate statistical problem that we refer to as the Ensemble-conditioned Inverse Problem (EIP). The aim of EIP is to invert for an ensemble that is distributed according to the pushforward of a prior under a forward process. In high energy physics (HEP), this is related to a widely known problem called unfolding, which aims to reconstruct the true physics distribution from observations that are distorted by detector effects. The EIP also arises in full waveform inversion (FWI) and inverse imaging with unknown priors. We propose non-iterative inference-time methods that construct posterior samplers based on a new class of conditional generative models, which we call ensemble inverse generative models. For the posterior modeling, these models additionally use the ensemble information contained in the observation set on top of single observations. Unlike existing methods, our proposed methods avoid explicit and iterative use of the forward model at inference time via training across several sets of truth-observation pairs that are consistent with the same forward model, but originate from a wide range of priors. We empirically demonstrate that this training procedure can implicitly encode the likelihood model, enabling direct posterior inference for unseen priors to some degree. We benchmark the proposed method on several synthetic and real datasets in inverse imaging, HEP, and FWI. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZhengyanHuan/EIP.
Abstract:We introduce a new multivariate statistical problem that we refer to as the Ensemble-conditioned Inverse Problem (EIP). The aim of EIP is to invert for an ensemble that is distributed according to the pushforward of a prior under a forward process. In high energy physics (HEP), this is related to a widely known problem called unfolding, which aims to reconstruct the true physics distribution from observations that are distorted by detector effects. The EIP also arises in full waveform inversion (FWI) and inverse imaging with unknown priors. We propose non-iterative inference-time methods that construct posterior samplers based on a new class of conditional generative models, which we call ensemble inverse generative models. For the posterior modeling, these models additionally use the ensemble information contained in the observation set on top of single observations. Unlike existing methods, our proposed methods avoid explicit and iterative use of the forward model at inference time via training across several sets of truth-observation pairs that are consistent with the same forward model, but originate from a wide range of priors. We empirically demonstrate that this training procedure can implicitly encode the likelihood model, enabling direct posterior inference for unseen priors to some degree. We benchmark the proposed method on several synthetic and real datasets in inverse imaging, HEP, and FWI. Our code is available at this https URL.
Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2601.22029 [cs.LG]
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