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In this paper, Bayesian optimisation is used to simultaneously search the optimal values of the shape parameter and the radius in radial basis function partition of unity interpolation problem. It is a probabilistic iterative approach that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Sandro Lancellotti , Federico Romaniello

Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) selects experiments to maximize information gain about model parameters. However, in decision-critical settings, reducing parameter uncertainty does not necessarily improve downstream decisions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jinwoo Go , Xiaoning Qian , Byung-Jun Yoon

PDE-constrained optimization problems have been barely solved by radial basis functions (RBFs) methods [Pearson, 2013]. It is well known that RBF methods can attain an exponential rate of convergence when $C^{\infty}$ kernels are used,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Pedro González Casanova , Jorge Zavaleta

The paper introduces a new meshfree pseudospectral method based on Gaussian radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation to solve fractional Poisson equations. Hypergeometric functions are used to represent the fractional Laplacian of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Xiaochuan Tian , Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

Data-driven modal decompositions are useful tools for compressing data or identifying dominant structures. Popular ones like the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) and the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) are defined with continuous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-06 Manuel Ratz , Alessandro Parente , Miguel Alfonso Mendez

The estimation of patient-specific tissue properties in the form of model parameters is important for personalized physiological models. However, these tissue properties are spatially varying across the underlying anatomical model,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-19 Jwala Dhamala , Sandesh Ghimire , John L. Sapp , B. Milan Horácek , Linwei Wang

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sequential optimization strategy that is increasingly employed in a wide range of areas including materials design. In real world applications, acquiring high-fidelity (HF) data through physical experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Ramin Bostanabad

The ranking of experiments by expected information gain (EIG) in Bayesian experimental design is sensitive to changes in the model's prior distribution, and the approximation of EIG yielded by sampling will have errors similar to the use of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-23 Jinwoo Go , Tobin Isaac

We consider the utilization of a computational model to guide the optimal acquisition of experimental data to inform the stochastic description of model input parameters. Our formulation is based on the recently developed consistent…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-04 Scott N. Walsh , Tim M. Wildey , John D. Jakeman

Advanced experimental measurements are crucial for driving theoretical developments and unveiling novel phenomena in condensed matter and material physics, which often suffer from the scarcity of facility resources and increasing…

The accuracy of some density functional (DF) models, widely used in material science, depends on empirical or free parameters which are commonly tuned using reference physical properties. The optimal value of the free parameters is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

The design and optimization of optical components, such as Bragg gratings, are critical for applications in telecommunications, sensing, and photonic circuits. To overcome the limitations of traditional design methods that rely heavily on…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-07 M. R. Mahani , Igor A. Nechepurenko , Thomas Flisgen , Andreas Wicht

We present GO-CBED, a goal-oriented Bayesian framework for sequential causal experimental design. Unlike conventional approaches that select interventions aimed at inferring the full causal model, GO-CBED directly maximizes the expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zheyu Zhang , Jiayuan Dong , Jie Liu , Xun Huan

In this paper, a new localized radial basis function (RBF) method based on partition of unity (PU) is proposed for solving boundary and initial-boundary value problems. The new method is benefited from a direct discretization approach and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Davoud Mirzaei

Motivated by the success of Bayesian optimisation algorithms in the Euclidean space, we propose a novel approach to construct Intrinsic Bayesian optimisation (In-BO) on manifolds with a primary focus on complex constrained domains or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-31 Yuan Liu , Mu Niu , Claire Miller

Some response surface functions in complex engineering systems are usually highly nonlinear, unformed, and expensive-to-evaluate. To tackle this challenge, Bayesian optimization, which conducts sequential design via a posterior distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-23 Areej AlBahar , Inyoung Kim , Xiaowei Yue

Approximation of scattered geometric data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This method is useful for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

Constrained radial basis function (RBF) regression has recently emerged as a powerful meshless tool for reconstructing continuous velocity fields from scattered flow measurements, particularly in image-based velocimetry. However, existing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Damien Rigutto , Manuel Ratz , Miguel A. Mendez

Material flow analyses (MFAs) are powerful tools for highlighting resource efficiency opportunities in supply chains. MFAs are often represented as directed graphs, with nodes denoting processes and edges representing mass flows. However,…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-08 Jiankan Liao , Xun Huan , Daniel Cooper

Experimental design is crucial for inference where limitations in the data collection procedure are present due to cost or other restrictions. Optimal experimental designs determine parameters that in some appropriate sense make the data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-11 Panagiotis Tsilifis , Roger G. Ghanem , Paris Hajali