arXiv Machine Learning By Yuanzhe Wang, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky

Latent Diffusion Posterior Sampling with Surrogate Likelihood Guidance for PDE Inverse Problems

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arXiv:2606. 26592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose latent-space diffusion posterior sampling (L-DPS), an approximate Bayesian framework for high-dimensional inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs).

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