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Integrating hyper-parameter uncertainties in a multi-fidelity Bayesian model for the estimation of a probability of failure

Methodology 2021-03-31 v1 Computation

Abstract

A multi-fidelity simulator is a numerical model, in which one of the inputs controls a trade-off between the realism and the computational cost of the simulation. Our goal is to estimate the probability of exceeding a given threshold on a multi-fidelity stochastic simulator. We propose a fully Bayesian approach based on Gaussian processes to compute the posterior probability distribution of this probability. We pay special attention to the hyper-parameters of the model. Our methodology is illustrated on an academic example.

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@article{arxiv.1709.06896,
  title  = {Integrating hyper-parameter uncertainties in a multi-fidelity Bayesian model for the estimation of a probability of failure},
  author = {Rémi Stroh and Julien Bect and Séverine Demeyer and Nicolas Fischer and Emmanuel Vazquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06896},
  year   = {2021}
}