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One of the goals of computer-aided surgery is to match intraoperative data to preoperative images of the anatomy and add complementary information that can facilitate the task of surgical navigation. In this context, mechanical palpation…

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While local basis function (LBF) estimation algorithms, commonly used for identifying/tracking systems with time-varying parameters, demonstrate good performance under the assumption of normally distributed measurement noise, the estimation…

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Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a popular approach to optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. Despite the success of BO, its performance may decrease exponentially as the dimensionality increases. A common framework to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Quoc-Anh Hoang Nguyen , The Hung Tran

The immersed boundary method (IB) is an elegant way to fully couple the motion of a fluid and deformations of an immersed elastic structure. In that vein, the IB2d software allows for expedited explorations of fluid-structure interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-19 Nicholas Battista , Christopher Strickland , Aaron Barrett , Laura Miller

This paper presents a computationally efficient framework for identifying resonance modes of 3D radio-frequency (RF) cavities with damping waveguide ports. The proposed framework relies on surface integral equation (IE) formulations to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Yang Liu , Tianhuan Luo , Aman Rani , Hengrui Luo , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an approach to globally optimizing black-box objective functions that are expensive to evaluate. BO-powered experimental design has found wide application in materials science, chemistry, experimental physics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Mimi Zhang , Andrew Parnell , Dermot Brabazon , Alessio Benavoli

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

Automatically searching for optimal hyperparameter configurations is of crucial importance for applying deep learning algorithms in practice. Recently, Bayesian optimization has been proposed for optimizing hyperparameters of various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ilija Ilievski , Taimoor Akhtar , Jiashi Feng , Christine Annette Shoemaker

Hybrid methods for simulating rarefied gas flows reduce computational cost by coupling a particle-based model, typically the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, to a continuum-based solver, i.e. a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Arshad Kamal , Arun K. Chinnappan , James R. Kermode , Duncan A. Lockerby

The complex nature of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments results in a very large number of experimental parameters that are only known with limited reliability. These parameters, combined with the myriad physical models that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jim A Gaffney , Dan Clark , Vijay Sonnad , Stephen B Libby

This study addresses the challenge of fleet design optimization in the context of heterogeneous multi-robot fleets, aiming to obtain feasible designs that balance performance and costs. In the domain of autonomous multi-robot exploration,…

We present a review of methods for optimal experimental design (OED) for Bayesian inverse problems governed by partial differential equations with infinite-dimensional parameters. The focus is on problems where one seeks to optimize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Alen Alexanderian

Computational modeling of the manufacturing process of Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB) composite electrodes based on mechanistic approaches, allows predicting the influence of manufacturing parameters on electrode properties. However, ensuring…

We consider the problem of learning structures and parameters of Continuous-time Bayesian Networks (CTBNs) from time-course data under minimal experimental resources. In practice, the cost of generating experimental data poses a bottleneck,…

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In order to provide design guidelines for energy efficient 6G networks, we propose a novel radial basis function (RBF) based optimization framework to maximize the integrated relative energy efficiency (IREE) metric. Different from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Tao Yu , Pengbo Huang , Shunqing Zhang , Xiaojing Chen , Yanzan Sun , Xin Wang

We propose a multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization (MF-BO) framework that integrates computational fluid dynamics (CFD) evaluations with Gaussian-process surrogates to efficiently navigate the accuracy-cost trade-off induced by mesh…

Bayesian optimisation (BO) uses probabilistic surrogate models - usually Gaussian processes (GPs) - for the optimisation of expensive black-box functions. At each BO iteration, the GP hyperparameters are fit to previously-evaluated data by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 George De Ath , Richard Everson , Jonathan Fieldsend

Recently, collocation based radial basis function (RBF) partition of unity methods (PUM) for solving partial differential equations have been formulated and investigated numerically and theoretically. When combined with stable evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Elisabeth Larsson , Victor Shcherbakov , Alfa Heryudono

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a class of surrogate-based, sample-efficient algorithms for optimizing black-box problems with small evaluation budgets. The BO pipeline itself is highly configurable with many different design choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Carolin Benjamins , Elena Raponi , Anja Jankovic , Carola Doerr , Marius Lindauer

Functional data analysis finds widespread application across various fields. While functional data are intrinsically infinite-dimensional, in practice, they are observed only at a finite set of points, typically over a dense grid. As a…

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