A Contrast-Source Inversion Scheme Based on Stochastic Optimization and Plug-and-Play Regularization

arXiv:2610.05130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An electromagnetic inversion scheme that integrates stochastic optimization (STO) and plug-and-play (PNP) regularization into contrast-source inversion (CSI), termed STO-PNP-CSI, is developed. Standard CSI solves for the contrast source vector of every transmitter at each iteration, which is expensive in a multi-transmitter configuration. STO instead solves for only one randomly selected contrast source vector per iteration, which reduces the per-iteration cost and can help the inversion escape poor local minima and saddle points. The resulting loss of information, however, increases the ill-posedness of the inversion. To counter this, the Swin-Conv-UNet (SCUNet) denoiser is plugged into the CSI scheme as an implicit regularizer, supplying a learned prior that is stronger than conventional hand-crafted ones and stabilizes the reconstruction. The proposed STO-PNP-CSI is applied to both synthetic and experimental data. The results show that it yields accurate reconstructions at substantially lower computational cost than CSI, including under strong nonlinearity and measurement noise.

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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-10-06