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We present a flexible method for computing Bayesian optimal experimental designs (BOEDs) for inverse problems with intractable posteriors. The approach is applicable to a wide range of BOED problems and can accommodate various optimality…

Computation · Statistics 2024-08-20 Karina Koval , Roland Herzog , Robert Scheichl

For estimation and predictions of random fields it is increasingly acknowledged that the kriging variance may be a poor representative of true uncertainty. Experimental designs based on more elaborate criteria that are appropriate for…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-15 Werner G. Müller , Luc Pronzato , Joao Rendas , Helmut Waldl

Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design (BOED) is a powerful tool to reduce the cost of running a sequence of experiments. When based on the Expected Information Gain (EIG), design optimization corresponds to the maximization of some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Jacopo Iollo , Christophe Heinkelé , Pierre Alliez , Florence Forbes

We propose a control-oriented optimal experimental design (cOED) approach for linear PDE-constrained Bayesian inverse problems. In particular, we consider optimal control problems with uncertain parameters that need to be estimated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Madhusudan Madhavan , Alen Alexanderian , Arvind K. Saibaba , Bart van Bloemen Waanders , Rebekah D. White

Systems with both quantitative and qualitative responses are widely encountered in many applications. Design of experiment methods are needed when experiments are conducted to study such systems. Classic experimental design methods are…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-24 Lulu Kang , Xinwei Deng , Ran Jin

In statistics, experimental designs are methods for making efficient experiments. E-optimal designs are the multisets of experimental conditions which minimize the maximum axis of the confidence ellipsoid of estimators. The aim of this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Takuma Takeuchi , Hiroto Sekido

Our work revisits the design of mechanisms via the learning-augmented framework. In this model, the algorithm is enhanced with imperfect (machine-learned) information concerning the input, usually referred to as prediction. The goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 George Christodoulou , Alkmini Sgouritsa , Ioannis Vlachos

We derive an optimal policy for adaptively restarting a randomized algorithm, based on observed features of the run-so-far, so as to minimize the expected time required for the algorithm to successfully terminate. Given a suitable Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Matthew Streeter

We study the problem of causal structure learning over a set of random variables when the experimenter is allowed to perform at most $M$ experiments in a non-adaptive manner. We consider the optimal learning strategy in terms of minimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 AmirEmad Ghassami , Saber Salehkaleybar , Negar Kiyavash

We consider the Chance Constrained Model Predictive Control problem for polynomial systems subject to disturbances. In this problem, we aim at finding optimal control input for given disturbed dynamical system to minimize a given cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Ashkan Jasour , Constantino Lagoa

We consider goal-oriented optimal design of experiments for infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Specifically, we seek sensor placements that minimize the posterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-13 J. Nicholas Neuberger , Alen Alexanderian , Bart van Bloemen Waanders

A Bayesian design is given by maximising an expected utility over a design space. The utility is chosen to represent the aim of the experiment and its expectation is taken with respect to all unknowns: responses, parameters and/or models.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-16 Antony M. Overstall , James M. McGree

Experimental design is a classical statistics problem and its aim is to estimate an unknown $m$-dimensional vector $\beta$ from linear measurements where a Gaussian noise is introduced in each measurement. For the combinatorial experimental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Mohit Singh , Weijun Xie

This work provides performance guarantees for the greedy solution of experimental design problems. In particular, it focuses on A- and E-optimal designs, for which typical guarantees do not apply since the mean-square error and the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) seeks to maximize the expected information gain (EIG) of experiments. This requires a likelihood estimate, which in many settings is intractable. Simulation-based inference (SBI) provides powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Samuel Klein , Willie Neiswanger , Daniel Ratner , Michael Kagan , Sean Gasiorowski

Optimal experimental design (OED) plays an important role in the problem of identifying uncertainty with limited experimental data. In many applications, we seek to minimize the uncertainty of a predicted quantity of interest (QoI) based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Keyi Wu , Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

Designing efficient experiments under practical constraints is critical in both scientific research and industrial practice. Focusing on minimizing the average variance of the parameter estimates, A-optimal designs show advantages in…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-20 Yingying Yang , Xiaotian Chen , Jie Yang

Linear optimization problems are investigated whose parameters are uncertain. We apply coherent distortion risk measures to capture the possible violation of a restriction. Each risk constraint induces an uncertainty set of coefficients,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-18 Karl Mosler , Pavel Bazovkin

This work examines the optimal covariance steering problem for systems subject to unknown parameters that enter multiplicatively with the state and control, in addition to additive disturbances. In contrast to existing works, the unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Jacob W. Knaup , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Bayesian optimal experimental design (OED) provides a principled framework for selecting observations or experiments. We introduce new Bayesian design criteria based on the expected Wasserstein-$p$ distance between the prior and posterior…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-28 Tapio Helin , Youssef Marzouk , Jose Rodrigo Rojo-Garcia