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In this paper, we address the problem of cost-sensitive multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization (BO) for efficient hyperparameter optimization (HPO). Specifically, we assume a scenario where users want to early-stop the BO when the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Dong Bok Lee , Aoxuan Silvia Zhang , Byungjoo Kim , Junhyeon Park , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang , Hae Beom Lee

The adoption of high-fidelity models for many-query optimization problems is majorly limited by the significant computational cost required for their evaluation at every query. Multifidelity Bayesian methods (MFBO) allow to include costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Francesco Di Fiore , Laura Mainini

To protect multicores from soft-error perturbations, resiliency schemes have been developed with high coverage but high power and performance overheads. Emerging safety-critical machine learning applications are increasingly being deployed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Qingchuan Shi , Hamza Omar , Omer Khan

Stochastic, iterative search methods such as Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are proven to be efficient optimizers. However, they require evaluation of the candidate solutions which may be prohibitively expensive in many real world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Maumita Bhattacharya

A multi-fidelity regression model is proposed for combining multiple datasets with different fidelities, particularly abundant low-fidelity data and scarce high-fidelity observations. The model builds upon recent multi-fidelity frameworks…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-21 Mohammad Hossein Saadat

Scaling laws describe how model performance grows with data, parameters and compute. While large datasets can usually be collected at relatively low cost in domains such as language or vision, scientific machine learning is often limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Paul Setinek , Gianluca Galletti , Johannes Brandstetter

We study optimal sensor placement for Bayesian state estimation problems in which sensors vary in cost and fidelity, resulting in a budget-constrained multifidelity optimal experimental design problem. Sensor placement optimality is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Gabriela Ramon , Geena Sarnoski , Vasishta Tumuluri , Hugo Díaz , Arvind K. Saibaba

High-Performance Computing (HPC) schedulers must balance user performance with facility-wide resource constraints. The task boils down to selecting the optimal number of nodes for a given job. We present a surrogate-assisted multi-objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ashna Nawar Ahmed , Banooqa Banday , Terry Jones , Tanzima Z. Islam

Testing controllers in safety-critical systems is vital for ensuring their safety and preventing failures. In this paper, we address the falsification problem within learning-based closed-loop control systems through simulation. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Zahra Shahrooei , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Ali Baheri

Is there a relationship between computing costs and the confidence people place in the behavior of computing systems? What are the tuning knobs one can use to optimize systems for human confidence instead of correctness in purely abstract…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Raphael 'kena' Poss

Modern container ships face higher wind loads due to increased windage areas, making accurate predictions of wind loads essential for mooring design. Existing empirical models, largely developed for container ships with smaller windage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Matilde Fiore , Andrea Bresciani , Miguel Alfonso Mendez , Jeroen van Beeck

In many computational science and engineering applications, the output of a system of interest corresponding to a given input can be queried at different levels of fidelity with different costs. Typically, low-fidelity data is cheap and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Sami Khairy , Prasanna Balaprakash

A multi-fidelity surrogate model for highly nonlinear multiscale problems is proposed. It is based on the introduction of two different surrogate models and an adaptive on-the-fly switching. The two concurrent surrogates are built…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 Felix Fritzen , Mauricio Fernández , Fredrik Larsson

Finite element (FE) simulations of structures and materials are getting increasingly more accurate, but also more computationally expensive as a collateral result. This development happens in parallel with a growing demand of data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Leo Guo , Hirak Kansara , Siamak F. Khosroshahi , GuoQi Zhang , Wei Tan

This paper introduces a multifidelity formulation that reduces the computational cost of the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) of a high-fidelity model by leveraging data from cheaper, lower-fidelity models. POD is a prevalent technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Nicole Aretz , Karen Willcox

Bandit methods for black-box optimisation, such as Bayesian optimisation, are used in a variety of applications including hyper-parameter tuning and experiment design. Recently, \emph{multi-fidelity} methods have garnered considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-21 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Gautam Dasarathy , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

In this experience report, we apply deep active learning to the field of design optimization to reduce the number of computationally expensive numerical simulations. We are interested in optimizing the design of structural components, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jens Decke , Christian Gruhl , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick

Modern computational methods, involving highly sophisticated mathematical formulations, enable several tasks like modeling complex physical phenomenon, predicting key properties and design optimization. The higher fidelity in these computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Lele Luan , Nesar Ramachandra , Sandipp Krishnan Ravi , Anindya Bhaduri , Piyush Pandita , Prasanna Balaprakash , Mihai Anitescu , Changjie Sun , Liping Wang

Monte Carlo simulation is often used for the reliability assessment of power systems, but it converges slowly when the system is complex. Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) can be applied to speed up computation without compromises on model…

Computation · Statistics 2022-07-12 Ensieh Sharifnia , Simon Tindemans