Recovering Sharp Conductivity Features in the Finite-Data Calderón Problem with Physics-Informed Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28158v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:54:32 GMT
• Title: Recovering Sharp Conductivity Features in the Finite-Data Calderón Problem with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
• Abstract summary: We revisit neural Caldern inversion by introducing multiscale boundary excitations based on randomized wavelet functions.<n>We propose a physics-informed reconstruction framework that represents the unknown conductivity.<n>We show that the framework recovers dominant conductivity structures from finite boundary measurements with relative errors between $3%-12%$ approximately.
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• Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a promising framework for addressing the Calderón inverse problem from limited boundary data. In this work, we revisit neural Calderón inversion by introducing multiscale boundary excitations based on randomized wavelet functions and investigating the role of Fourier-feature encoding (FFE) for representing sharp conductivity variations. We propose a physics-informed reconstruction framework that represents the unknown conductivity and the associated family of electric potentials with separate neural networks conditioned on the applied boundary excitations. The governing elliptic PDE is enforced through physics-informed residuals, while finite Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) data are incorporated through boundary losses. Using synthetic data from a finite-difference forward solver, we evaluate the method on conductivity fields with inclusions, sharp interfaces, smooth profiles, and heterogeneous media. Results show that the framework recovers dominant conductivity structures from finite boundary measurements with relative errors between $3\%-12\%$ approximately. We show that FFE improves the reconstruction of localized sharp features, particularly for inclusions and interfaces, but are not universally optimal, with raw-coordinate networks performing competitively for smoother fields. These results highlight coordinate representations and boundary excitation design as key factors in neural Calderón inversion.

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