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We present an algorithm for computing sparse, least squares-based polynomial chaos expansions, incorporating both adaptive polynomial bases and sequential experimental designs. The algorithm is employed to approximate stochastic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Dimitrios Loukrezis , Armin Galetzka , Herbert De Gersem

Quantifying uncertainty in predictive simulations for real-world problems is of paramount importance - and far from trivial, mainly due to the large number of stochastic parameters and significant computational requirements. Adaptive sparse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , Tobias Görler , Hans-Joachim Bungartz , Frank Jenko , Tobias Neckel

For uncertainty propagation of highly complex and/or nonlinear problems, one must resort to sample-based non-intrusive approaches [1]. In such cases, minimizing the number of function evaluations required to evaluate the response surface is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Anindya Bhaduri , Lori Graham-Brady

We consider the problem of learning a Gaussian variational approximation to the posterior distribution for a high-dimensional parameter, where we impose sparsity in the precision matrix to reflect appropriate conditional independence…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-23 Linda S. L. Tan , David J. Nott

A polynomial matrix inequality is a formula asserting that a polynomial matrix is positive semidefinite. Polynomial matrix optimization concerns minimizing the smallest eigenvalue of a symmetric polynomial matrix subject to a tuple of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Jared Miller , Jie Wang , Feng Guo

We propose a sparse grids based adaptive noise reduction strategy for electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. Our approach is based on the key idea of relying on sparse grids instead of a regular grid in order to increase the…

Sparse grids based on Lagrange polynomials have become one of the staple methods for approximating functions that are high-dimensional and expensive to evaluate, in the context e.g. of PDE-based parametric design exploration. They are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Matteo Rosellini , Filippo Fruzza , Alessandro Mariotti , Maria Vittoria Salvetti , Lorenzo Tamellini

We apply polynomial approximation methods -- known in the numerical PDEs context as spectral methods -- to approximate the vector-valued function that satisfies a linear system of equations where the matrix and the right hand side depend on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Paul G. Constantine , David F. Gleich , Gianluca Iaccarino

We give a new fast method for evaluating sprectral approximations of nonlinear polynomial functionals. We prove that the new algorithm is convergent if the functions considered are smooth enough, under a general assumption on the spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Erwan Faou , Fabio Nobile , Christophe Vuillot

The challenges for non-intrusive methods for Polynomial Chaos modeling lie in the computational efficiency and accuracy under a limited number of model simulations. These challenges can be addressed by enforcing sparsity in the series…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-24 Panagiotis Tsilifis , Iason Papaioannou , Daniel Straub , Fabio Nobile

Surrogate models are used to alleviate the computational burden in engineering tasks, which require the repeated evaluation of computationally demanding models of physical systems, such as the efficient propagation of uncertainties. For…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-28 Felix Schneider , Iason Papaioannou , Gerhard Müller

Sparse polynomial chaos expansions (PCE) are a popular surrogate modelling method that takes advantage of the properties of PCE, the sparsity-of-effects principle, and powerful sparse regression solvers to approximate computer models with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Nora Lüthen , Stefano Marelli , Bruno Sudret

We propose a method for the approximation of solutions of PDEs with stochastic coefficients based on the direct, i.e., non-adapted, sampling of solutions. This sampling can be done by using any legacy code for the deterministic problem as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Alireza Doostan , Houman Owhadi

This work introduces a new method to efficiently solve optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain coefficients. The method leverages two sources of inexactness that trade accuracy for speed:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Matthew J. Zahr , Kevin T. Carlberg , Drew P. Kouri

Smolyak's method, also known as hyperbolic cross approximation or sparse grid method, is a powerful tool to tackle multivariate tensor product problems solely with the help of efficient algorithms for the corresponding univariate problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Michael Gnewuch , Marcin Wnuk

This article presents two novel adaptive-sparse polynomial dimensional decomposition (PDD) methods for solving high-dimensional uncertainty quantification problems in computational science and engineering. The methods entail global…

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This paper introduces an efficient sparse recovery approach for Polynomial Chaos (PC) expansions, which promotes the sparsity by breaking the dimensionality of the problem. The proposed algorithm incrementally explores sub-dimensional…

Computation · Statistics 2017-04-05 Negin Alemazkoor , Hadi Meidani

Spectral polynomial approximation of smooth functions allows real-time manipulation of and computation with them, as in the Chebfun system. Extension of the technique to two-dimensional and three-dimensional functions on hyperrectangles has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Kevin W. Aiton , Tobin A. Driscoll

In this paper we present a locally and dimension-adaptive sparse grid method for interpolation and integration of high-dimensional functions with discontinuities. The proposed algorithm combines the strengths of the generalised sparse grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-10-04 John D. Jakeman , Stephen G. Roberts

We propose a novel sparse spectrum approximation of Gaussian process (GP) tailored for Bayesian optimization. Whilst the current sparse spectrum methods provide desired approximations for regression problems, it is observed that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ang Yang , Cheng Li , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh