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Unfortunately, this is classified as an Electromagnetic Inverse Problem (EIP), and data from sensors must be cautiously treated to obtain meaningful current measurements. The usual approach requires using suited regularization schemes. On the other hand, behavioral approaches are recently spreading for this class of problems. The reconstructed model is not obliged to follow the physics equations, and this implies approximations which must be accurately controlled, especially if aiming to reconstruct an inverse model from examples. In this paper, a systematic study of the role of different learning parameters (or rules) on the (re-)construction of an EIP model is proposed, in comparison with more assessed regularization techniques. Attention is particularly devoted to linear EIPs, and in this class, a benchmark problem is used to illustrate in practice the results. 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