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This paper introduces a practical sampling method for training surrogate models in the context of uncertainty propagation. We propose a heuristic method to uniformly draw samples within highest density regions of the density given by the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-15 Jocelyn Minini , Micha Wasem

This paper presents a novel surrogate-based cross-correlation (SBCC) framework to improve the correlation performance for practical particle image velocimetry~(PIV). The basic idea is that an optimized surrogate filter/image, replacing one…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Yong Lee , Fuqiang Gu , Zeyu Gong , Ding Pan , Wenhui Zeng

High-fidelity numerical simulations of chaotic, high dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems are computationally expensive, necessitating the development of efficient surrogate models. Most surrogate models for such systems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Dibyajyoti Chakraborty , Hojin Kim , Romit Maulik

Upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys aim to achieve an unprecedented level of precision in measuring galaxy clustering. However, accurately modeling these statistics may require theoretical templates that go beyond second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 M. Icaza-Lizaola , Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Yi Zheng

We introduce a novel approach for end-to-end black-box optimization of high energy physics (HEP) detectors using local deep learning (DL) surrogates. These surrogates approximate a scalar objective function that encapsulates the complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kinga Anna Wozniak , Stephen Mulligan , Jan Kieseler , Markus Klute , Francois Fleuret , Tobias Golling

The detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets is a major theme driving modern astronomy, with the vast majority of such measurements being achieved by Doppler radial-velocity and transit observations. Another technique -- direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Barnaby Norris , Nick Cvetojevic , Simon Gross , Nemanja Jovanovic , Paul N. Stewart , Ned Charles , Jon S. Lawrence , Michael J. Withford , Peter Tuthill

Machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANNs) have increasingly become integral to data analysis research in astrophysics due to the growing demand for fast calculations resulting from the abundance of observational data.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-11 Ioannis Liodis , Evaggelos Smirniotis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Reliable plasma transport modeling for magnetic confinement fusion depends on accurately resolving the ion charge state distribution and radiative power losses of the plasma. These quantities can be obtained from solutions of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Nathan A. Garland , Romit Maulik , Qi Tang , Xian-Zhu Tang , Prasanna Balaprakash

Taking agent-based models (ABM) closer to the data is an open challenge. This paper explicitly tackles parameter space exploration and calibration of ABMs combining supervised machine-learning and intelligent sampling to build a surrogate…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-04-07 Francesco Lamperti , Andrea Roventini , Amir Sani

Solving the Dark Matter enigma represents one of the key objectives of contemporary physics. Recent astrophysical and cosmological measurements have unambiguously demonstrated that ordinary matter contributes to less than 5 % of the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gabriel Chardin

[Abridged] We propose a solution to the problem of quickly and accurately predicting gravitational waveforms within any given physical model. The method is relevant for both real-time applications and in more traditional scenarios where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-23 Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Jan S. Hesthaven , Jason Kaye , Manuel Tiglio

High-fidelity models are essential for accurately capturing nonlinear system dynamics. However, simulation of these models is often computationally too expensive and, due to their complexity, they are not directly suitable for analysis,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 E. Javier Olucha , Rajiv Singh , Amritam Das , Roland Tóth

Solving complex problems requires continuous effort in developing theory and practice to cope with larger, more difficult scenarios. Working with surrogates is normal for creating a proxy that realistically models the problem into the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tomohiro Harada , Enrique Alba , Gabriel Luque

We propose GNN-Surrogate, a graph neural network-based surrogate model to explore the parameter space of ocean climate simulations. Parameter space exploration is important for domain scientists to understand the influence of input…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Neng Shi , Jiayi Xu , Skylar W. Wurster , Hanqi Guo , Jonathan Woodring , Luke P. Van Roekel , Han-Wei Shen

Chaotic systems pose fundamental challenges for data-driven dynamics discovery, as small modeling errors lead to exponentially growing trajectory discrepancies. Since exact long-term prediction is unattainable, it is natural to ask what a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Joon-Hyuk Ko , Andrus Giraldo , Deok-Sun Lee

In this paper, we study unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms that learn a neural network representation, i.e. regular patterns of normal data, which anomalies are deviating from. Inspired by a similar concept in engineering, we refer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Simon Klüttermann , Tim Katzke , Emmanuel Müller

We introduce hp-greedy, a refinement approach for building gravitational wave surrogates as an extension of the standard reduced basis framework. Our proposal is data-driven, with a domain decomposition of the parameter space, local reduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-19 Franco Cerino , J. Andrés Diaz-Pace , Manuel Tiglio

Supernova spectral time series contain a wealth of information about the progenitor and explosion process of these energetic events. The modeling of these data requires the exploration of very high dimensional posterior probabilities with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf , Christian Vogl , Johannes Buchner , Gabriella Contardo , Marc Williamson , Patrick van der Smagt

The problem of the dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A short history of the subject is given, and several of the most obvious particle candidates for dark matter are identified. Particular focus is given to weakly interacting,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Lars Bergström

It is usually assumed that dark matter direct detection is sensitive to a large fraction of the dark matter (DM) velocity distribution. We propose an alternative form of dark matter-nucleus scattering which only probes a narrow range of DM…

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