“…The quasi-boundary value method (QBVM), also referred to as the non-local boundary value method, has been widely used in solving ill-posed inverse problems for parabolic equations, see e.g., [2,13,11,19] and the references therein. Recently, it has been successfully generalized for solving the fractional diffusion inverse problems [42,48,49,50]. Instead of working on (1) and (2), the method deals with a well-posed problem D α t v(x, t) = (Lv)(x, t) + f µ (x)q(t), x ∈ Ω, t ∈ (0, T ), v(x, t) = 0,…”