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We consider optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian inverse problems, where the experimental design variables have a certain multiway structure. Given $d$ different experimental variables with $m_i$ choices per design variable $1 \le…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Hugo Díaz , Arvind K. Saibaba , Srinivas Eswar , Vishwas Rao , Zichao Wendy Di

The optimal and robust design of structures has gained much attention in the past ten years due to the ever increasing need for manufacturers to build robust systems at the lowest cost. Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) allows…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-12 Vincent Dubourg , Jean-Marc Bourinet , Bruno Sudret

Modern computers enable methods for design optimization that account for uncertainty in the system---so-called optimization under uncertainty. We propose a metric for OUU that measures the distance between a designer-specified probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Pranay Seshadri , Paul Constantine , Gianluca Iaccarino , Geoffrey Parks

State estimation is the task of approximately reconstructing a solution $u$ of a parametric partial differential equation when the parameter vector $y$ is unknown and the only information is $m$ linear measurements of $u$. In [Cohen et.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 James A. Nichols

In model-predictive control (MPC), achieving the best closed-loop performance under a given computational resource is the underlying design consideration. This paper analyzes the MPC design problem with control performance and required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Vincent Bachtiar , Chris Manzie , William H. Moase , Eric C. Kerrigan

In computational inverse problems, the optimal experimental design (OED) problem seeks the best locations in time and space at which to take measurements. We investigate the nonlinear OED problem in the context of continuously-indexed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Ruhui Jin , Qin Li , Stephen O. Mussmann , Stephen J. Wright

Given an experimental set-up and a fixed number of measurements, how should one take data in order to optimally reconstruct the state of a quantum system? The problem of optimal experiment design (OED) for quantum state tomography was first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 J. Nunn , B. J. Smith , G. Puentes , J. S. Lundeen , I. A. Walmsley

In offline data-driven multi-objective optimization (MOO), optimization is performed using surrogate models trained only on an offline dataset. These surrogate models contain inherent errors and uncertainty. This epistemic uncertainty can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Huanbo Lyu , Miqing Li , Shiqiao Zhou , Daniel Herring , Jelena Ninic , Zheming Zuo , Lingfeng Wang , James Andrews , Fabian Spill , Shuo Wang

We introduce CODES, a benchmark for comprehensive evaluation of surrogate architectures for coupled ODE systems. Besides standard metrics like mean squared error (MSE) and inference time, CODES provides insights into surrogate behaviour…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Robin Janssen , Immanuel Sulzer , Tobias Buck

Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) is a principled framework for making efficient use of limited experimental resources. Unfortunately, its applicability is hampered by the difficulty of obtaining accurate estimates of the expected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-15 Adam Foster , Martin Jankowiak , Eli Bingham , Paul Horsfall , Yee Whye Teh , Tom Rainforth , Noah Goodman

Variational quantum algorithms are a leading candidate for early applications on noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. These algorithms depend on a classical optimization outer-loop that minimizes some function of a parameterized…

Offline optimization is a fundamental challenge in science and engineering, where the goal is to optimize black-box functions using only offline datasets. This setting is particularly relevant when querying the objective function is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Minsu Kim , Jiayao Gu , Ye Yuan , Taeyoung Yun , Zixuan Liu , Yoshua Bengio , Can Chen

In a task where many similar inverse problems must be solved, evaluating costly simulations is impractical. Therefore, replacing the model $y$ with a surrogate model $y_s$ that can be evaluated quickly leads to a significant speedup. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Phillip Semler , Martin Weiser

We study the problem of structured prediction under test-time budget constraints. We propose a novel approach applicable to a wide range of structured prediction problems in computer vision and natural language processing. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-09 Tolga Bolukbasi , Kai-Wei Chang , Joseph Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Ordinal optimization (OO) is a widely-studied technique for optimizing discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDS). It evaluates the performance of the system designs in a finite set by sampling and aims to correctly make ordinal comparison of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-30 Yanwen Li , Siyang Gao

We apply optimum experimental design (OED) to organic semiconductors modeled by the extended Gaussian disorder model (EGDM) which was developed by Pasveer et al. We present an extended Gummel method to decouple the corresponding system of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Christoph Karl Felix Weiler , Stefan Körkel

Optimizing the reliability and the robustness of a design is important but often unaffordable due to high sample requirements. Surrogate models based on statistical and machine learning methods are used to increase the sample efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-06 Can Bogoclu , Dirk Roos , Tamara Nestorović

We applied Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design (OED) in the estimation of parameters involved in the Equilibrium Dispersive Model for chromatography with two components with the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. The coefficients estimated were…

Applications · Statistics 2024-10-08 Jose Rodrigo Rojo-Garcia , Heikki Haario , Tapio Helin , Tuomo Sainio

Geographic experiments are a widely-used methodology for measuring incremental return on ad spend (iROAS) at scale, yet their design presents significant challenges. The unit count is small, heterogeneity is large, and the optimal Supergeo…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-01 Charles Shaw

Optimization problems with nonlinear cost functions and combinatorial constraints appear in many real-world applications but remain challenging to solve efficiently compared to their linear counterparts. To bridge this gap, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Aaron Ferber , Taoan Huang , Daochen Zha , Martin Schubert , Benoit Steiner , Bistra Dilkina , Yuandong Tian