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This paper proposes a novel uncertainty quantification framework for computationally demanding systems characterized by a large vector of non-Gaussian uncertainties. It combines state-of-the-art techniques in advanced Monte Carlo sampling…

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The Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) approach usually works well when estimating the expected value of a quantity which is a Lipschitz function of intermediate quantities, but if it is a discontinuous function it can lead to a much slower…

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This paper introduces a multilevel kernel-based approximation method to estimate efficiently solutions to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with periodic random coefficients. Building upon the work of Kaarnioja, Kazashi, Kuo,…

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