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Numerical-relativity surrogate models for both black-hole merger waveforms and remnants have emerged as important tools in gravitational-wave astronomy. While producing very accurate predictions, their applicability is limited to the region…

Only numerical relativity simulations can capture the full complexities of binary black hole mergers. These simulations, however, are prohibitively expensive for direct data analysis applications such as parameter estimation. We present two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-16 Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field , Mark A. Scheel , Jonathan Blackman , Davide Gerosa , Leo C. Stein , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Numerical relativity (NR) simulations provide the most accurate binary black hole gravitational waveforms, but are prohibitively expensive for applications such as parameter estimation. Surrogate models of NR waveforms have been shown to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Vijay Varma , Scott E. Field , Mark A. Scheel , Jonathan Blackman , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Gravitational-wave approximants are essential for gravitational-wave astronomy, allowing the coverage binary black hole parameter space for inference or match filtering without costly numerical relativity (NR) simulations, but generally…

Machine learning methods are increasingly used to build computationally inexpensive surrogates for complex physical models. The predictive capability of these surrogates suffers when data are noisy, sparse, or time-dependent. As we are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 A. Diaw , M. McKerns , I. Sagert , L. G. Stanton , M. S. Murillo

This paper presents a novel methodology that uses surrogate models in the form of neural networks to reduce the computation time of simulation-based optimization of a reference trajectory. Simulation-based optimization is necessary when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Evelyn Ruff , Rebecca Russell , Matthew Stoeckle , Piero Miotto , Jonathan P. How

Addressing real-world optimization challenges requires not only advanced metaheuristics but also continuous refinement of their internal mechanisms. This paper explores the integration of machine learning in the form of neural surrogate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tomohiro Harada , Enrique Alba , Gabriel Luque

Gravitational waveform templates are a key ingredient for the detection and characterization of gravitational waves emitted by compact binary mergers in the universe. These templates must be physically accurate and extensive, but also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 Christopher Whittall , Geraint Pratten

In constraint learning, we use a neural network as a surrogate for part of the constraints or of the objective function of an optimization model. However, the tractability of the resulting model is heavily influenced by the size of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hung Pham , Aiden Ren , Ibrahim Tahir , Jiatai Tong , Thiago Serra

Deep learning methods have been employed in gravitational-wave astronomy to accelerate the construction of surrogate waveforms for the inspiral of spin-aligned black hole binaries, among other applications. We face the challenge of modeling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Styliani-Christina Fragkouli , Paraskevi Nousi , Nikolaos Passalis , Panagiotis Iosif , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Anastasios Tefas

We consider the problem of constructing surrogate operators for parameter-to-solution maps arising from parametric partial differential equations, where repeated forward model evaluations are computationally expensive. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Josephine Westermann , Benno Huber , Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry , Jakob Zech

In many mechanistic medical, biological, physical and engineered spatiotemporal dynamic models the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) can make simulations impractically slow. Biological models require the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-11 J. Quetzalcóatl Toledo-Marín , Geoffrey Fox , James P. Sluka , James A. Glazier

We present a framework for automatically structuring and training fast, approximate, deep neural surrogates of stochastic simulators. Unlike traditional approaches to surrogate modeling, our surrogates retain the interpretable structure and…

Model merging techniques aim to integrate the abilities of multiple models into a single model. Most model merging techniques have hyperparameters, and their setting affects the performance of the merged model. Because several existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rio Akizuki , Yuya Kudo , Nozomu Yoshinari , Yoichi Hirose , Toshiyuki Nishimoto , Kento Uchida , Shinichi Shirakawa

Surrogates, models that mimic the behavior of programs, form the basis of a variety of development workflows. We study three surrogate-based design patterns, evaluating each in case studies on a large-scale CPU simulator. With surrogate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Alex Renda , Yi Ding , Michael Carbin

This paper presents a methodological framework for training, self-optimising, and self-organising surrogate models to approximate and speed up multiobjective optimisation of technical systems based on multiphysics simulations. At the hand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Diego Botache , Jens Decke , Winfried Ripken , Abhinay Dornipati , Franz Götz-Hahn , Mohamed Ayeb , Bernhard Sick

Numerical relativity (NR) simulations of binary black hole (BBH) systems provide the most accurate gravitational wave predictions, but at a high computational cost -- especially when the black holes have nearly extremal spins (i.e. spins…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Marissa Walker , Vijay Varma , Geoffrey Lovelace , Mark A. Scheel

Highly precise and robust waveform models are required as improvements in detector sensitivity enable us to test general relativity with more precision than ever before. In this work, we introduce a spin-aligned surrogate ringdown model.…

Physics simulators are essential in science and engineering, enabling the analysis, control, and design of complex systems. In experimental sciences, they are increasingly used to automate experimental design, often via combinatorial search…

Recently, several optimization methods have been successfully applied to the hyperparameter optimization of deep neural networks (DNNs). The methods work by modeling the joint distribution of hyperparameter values and corresponding error.…

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