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Bayesian optimization is a highly efficient approach to optimizing objective functions which are expensive to query. These objectives are typically represented by Gaussian process (GP) surrogate models which are easy to optimize and support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yucen Lily Li , Tim G. J. Rudner , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Mesh-based simulations play a key role when modeling complex physical systems that, in many disciplines across science and engineering, require the solution of parametrized time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Nicola Rares Franco , Stefania Fresca , Filippo Tombari , Andrea Manzoni

This paper proposes a technique for training a neural network by minimizing a surrogate loss that approximates the target evaluation metric, which may be non-differentiable. The surrogate is learned via a deep embedding where the Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Yash Patel , Tomas Hodan , Jiri Matas

A common trend in simulation-driven engineering applications is the ever-increasing size and complexity of the problem, where classical numerical methods typically suffer from significant computational time and huge memory cost. Methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiachen Guo , Chanwook Park , Xiaoyu Xie , Zhongsheng Sang , Gregory J. Wagner , Wing Kam Liu

Modeling groundwater flow in three-dimensional fractured crystalline media requires accounting for strong spatial heterogeneity induced by fractures. Fine-scale discrete fracture-matrix (DFM) simulations can capture this complexity but are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Martin Špetlík , Jan Březina

Surrogate Neural Networks are nowadays routinely used in industry as substitutes for computationally demanding engineering simulations (e.g., in structural analysis). They allow to generate faster predictions and thus analyses in industrial…

This paper proposes a machine-learning-based solution approach for solving multi-horizon stochastic programs. The approach embeds a deep learning neural network into a multi-horizon stochastic program to approximate the recourse operational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Hongyu Zhang , Gabriele Sormani , Enza Messina , Alan King , Francesca Maggioni

Surrogate neural network-based models have been lately trained and used in a variety of science and engineering applications where the number of evaluations of a target function is limited by execution time. In cell phone camera systems,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Shantanu Shahane , Erman Guleryuz , Diab W Abueidda , Allen Lee , Joe Liu , Xin Yu , Raymond Chiu , Seid Koric , Narayana R Aluru , Placid M Ferreira

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is one of the most promising techniques for designing efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for resource-constrained devices. Surrogate models play a crucial role in hardware-aware NAS as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Azaz-Ur-Rehman Nasir , Samroz Ahmad Shoaib , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

We propose a deep neural network (DNN) as a fast surrogate model for local stress (and in principle strain) calculation in inhomogeneous non-linear material systems. We show that the DNN predicts the local stresses with about 3.8% mean…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Jaber Rezaei Mianroodi , Nima H. Siboni , Dierk Raabe

Artificial Neural Networks (NNWs) are appealing functions to substitute high dimensional and non-linear history-dependent problems in computational mechanics since they offer the possibility to drastically reduce the computational time.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ling Wu , Ludovic Noels

Fast surrogate models for expensive simulations are now essential across the sciences, yet they typically operate as black boxes. We present \texttt{GWAgent}, a large language model (LLM)-based workflow that constructs interpretable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Tousif Islam , Digvijay Wadekar , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Matias Zaldarriaga , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Javier Roulet , Barak Zackay

Surrogate models are essential for efficient exploration of large-scale ensemble simulations. Implicit neural representations (INRs) provide a compact and continuous framework for modeling spatially structured data, but they often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ziwei Li , Yuhan Duan , Tianyu Xiong , Yi-Tang Chen , Wei-Lun Chao , Han-Wei Shen

The widespread use of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has recently resulted in their application to challenging scientific visualization tasks. While advanced DNNs demonstrate impressive generalization abilities, understanding factors like…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Atul Kumar , Siddharth Garg , Soumya Dutta

Accurate yet efficient surrogate models are essential for large-scale simulations of partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly for uncertainty quantification (UQ) tasks that demand hundreds or thousands of evaluations. We develop…

We propose a deep learning-based surrogate model for stochastic simulators. The basic idea is to use generative neural network to approximate the stochastic response. The challenge with such a framework resides in designing the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Akshay Thakur , Souvik Chakraborty

For many novel applications, such as patient-specific computer-aided surgery, conventional solution techniques of the underlying nonlinear problems are usually computationally too expensive and are lacking information about how certain can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Saurabh Deshpande , Jakub Lengiewicz , Stéphane P. A. Bordas

Surrogate models for partial-differential equations are widely used in the design of meta-materials to rapidly evaluate the behavior of composable components. However, the training cost of accurate surrogates by machine learning can rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Raphaël Pestourie , Youssef Mroueh , Thanh V. Nguyen , Payel Das , Steven G. Johnson

A deep-learning-based surrogate model is developed and applied for predicting dynamic subsurface flow in channelized geological models. The surrogate model is based on deep convolutional and recurrent neural network architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Meng Tang , Yimin Liu , Louis J. Durlofsky

Surrogate modeling and active subspaces have emerged as powerful paradigms in computational science and engineering. Porting such techniques to computational models in the social sciences brings into sharp relief their limitations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-19 Nathan Wycoff