Active Diffusion-Based Inference for Ill-Posed Inverse Problems under Incomplete Priors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27080v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:06:56 GMT
• Title: Active Diffusion-Based Inference for Ill-Posed Inverse Problems under Incomplete Priors
• Abstract summary: We propose an active diffusion-based inverse problem solver.<n>A DM is trained to learn the mapping between the parameter space and the observable space.<n>We demonstrate the effectiveness of our inverse solver for a toy inverse problem with infinite solutions.
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• Abstract: Many scientific and engineering applications require estimating unknown parameters from experimentally observable data -- an inverse problem that is inherently challenging due to nonlinearity, noise, and ill-posedness. In this paper, we propose an active diffusion-based inverse problem solver. A DM is trained to learn the mapping between the parameter space and the observable space. By iteratively detecting and correcting model misspecification through posterior uncertainty, the method discovers and learns the correct region of parameter space, even when initial training bounds exclude the true parameters. This provides a principled, Bayesian justification for adaptive domain augmentation and ensures robust inference for inverse problems under incomplete prior knowledge. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our inverse solver for a toy inverse problem with infinite solutions, and for the parameterization of the quantum correlation functions to event observables in a Quantum Chromodynamics analysis of nucleon structure.

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