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Real-time dispatch practices for operating the electric grid in an economic and reliable manner are evolving to accommodate higher levels of renewable energy generation. In particular, stochastic optimization is receiving increased…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Ryan N. King , Matthew Reynolds , Devon Sigler , Wesley Jones

Recent work has shown constrained Bayesian optimization to be a powerful technique for the optimization of industrial processes. In complex manufacturing processes, the possibility to run extensive sequences of experiments with the goal of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Xavier Guidetti , Alisa Rupenyan , Lutz Fassl , Majid Nabavi , John Lygeros

In the present paper, we provide an addendum to improve the efficiency of generating unweighted events within PYTHIA environment for the generator BCVEGPY2.1 [C.H. Chang, J.X. Wang and X.G. Wu, Comput.Phys.Commun.{\bf 174}, 241(2006)]. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-18 Xian-You Wang , Xing-Gang Wu

Bayesian optimization is an approach to optimizing objective functions that take a long time (minutes or hours) to evaluate. It is best-suited for optimization over continuous domains of less than 20 dimensions, and tolerates stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Peter I. Frazier

Recent developments in QCD phenomenology have spurred on several improved approaches to Monte Carlo event generation, relative to the post--LEP state of the art. In this brief review, the emphasis is placed on approaches for 1) consistently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Z. Skands

We propose a practical Bayesian optimization method using Gaussian process regression, of which the marginal likelihood is maximized where the number of model selection steps is guided by a pre-defined threshold. Since Bayesian optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Jungtaek Kim , Seungjin Choi

Experimental design is crucial for inference where limitations in the data collection procedure are present due to cost or other restrictions. Optimal experimental designs determine parameters that in some appropriate sense make the data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-11 Panagiotis Tsilifis , Roger G. Ghanem , Paris Hajali

When applying Machine Learning techniques to problems, one must select model parameters to ensure that the system converges but also does not become stuck at the objective function's local minimum. Tuning these parameters becomes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-16 Lawrence Stewart , Mark Stalzer

The structure of events in high-energy collisions is complex and not predictable from first principles. Event generators allow the problem to be subdivided into more manageable pieces, some of which can be described from first principles,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

This contribution lists challenges of Monte Carlo event generators for future lepton, especially linear colliders. A lot of the recent development benefits from the achievements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but several aspects are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-19 Jürgen Reuter

Bayesian optimization through Gaussian process regression is an effective method of optimizing an unknown function for which every measurement is expensive. It approximates the objective function and then recommends a new measurement point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-17 Hildo Bijl , Thomas B. Schön , Jan-Willem van Wingerden , Michel Verhaegen

We present a novel technique for tailoring Bayesian quadrature (BQ) to model selection. The state-of-the-art for comparing the evidence of multiple models relies on Monte Carlo methods, which converge slowly and are unreliable for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Henry Chai , Jean-Francois Ton , Roman Garnett , Michael A. Osborne

Controller tuning is a labor-intensive process that requires human intervention and expert knowledge. Bayesian optimization has been applied successfully in different fields to automate this process. However, when tuning on hardware, such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Johanna Menn , Pietro Pelizzari , Michael Fleps-Dezasse , Sebastian Trimpe

Efficient parameter identification of electrochemical models is crucial for accurate monitoring and control of lithium-ion cells. This process becomes challenging when applied to complex models that rely on a considerable number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Jianzong Pi , Samuel Filgueira da Silva , Mehmet Fatih Ozkan , Abhishek Gupta , Marcello Canova

We perform two tunes of the SHERPA Monte Carlo generator for the generation of $e^+e^-\rightarrow\mbox{hadrons}$ using the publicly-available LEP analyses in Rivet. In each of these tunes, we generate events at $\sqrt{s}=91.25\mbox{ GeV}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-10-29 Jennifer Kile , Julian von Wimmersperg-Toeller

Monte Carlo event generators are in a modern terminology the digital twins of collider-based particle physics experiment. We give an introduction into the application of MC generators for particle physics, discuss their different components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jürgen Reuter

With the High Luminosity LHC coming online in the near future, event generators will need to provide very large event samples to match the experimental precision. Currently, the estimated cost to generate these events exceeds the computing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Joshua Isaacson

We study the differences in the gamma ray spectra simulated by four Monte Carlo event generator packages developed in particle physics. Two different versions of PYTHIA and two of HERWIG are analyzed, namely PYTHIA 6.418 and HERWIG 6.5.10…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-02 J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , V. Gammaldi , R. A. Lineros , A. L. Maroto

We apply, for the first time, Bayes Linear Emulation and History Matching to the calibration of non-perturbative models in Monte Carlo event generators. In contrast to the usual approach of "Monte Carlo tuning", History Matching does not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Andrew Iskauskas , Max Knobbe , Frank Krauss , Steffen Schumann

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful technology for optimizing noisy expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions, with a broad range of real-world applications in science, engineering, economics, manufacturing, and beyond. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Joel A. Paulson , Calvin Tsay