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The objective of this study is to establish a gradient-free topology optimization framework that facilitates more global solution searches to avoid entrapping in undesirable local optima, especially in problems with strong non-linearity.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Hiroki Kawabe , Kentaro Yaji , Yuichiro Aoki

How can we efficiently gather information to optimize an unknown function, when presented with multiple, mutually dependent information sources with different costs? For example, when optimizing a robotic system, intelligently trading off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Jialin Song , Yuxin Chen , Yisong Yue

Despite the increased computational resources, the simulation-based design optimization (SBDO) procedure can be very expensive from a computational viewpoint, especially if high-fidelity solvers are required. Multi-fidelity metamodels have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Simone Ficini , Umberto Iemma , Riccardo Pellegrini , Andrea Serani , Matteo Diez

A multi-fidelity (MF) active learning method is presented for design optimization problems characterized by noisy evaluations of the performance metrics. Namely, a generalized MF surrogate model is used for design-space exploration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Riccardo Pellegrini , Jeroen Wackers , Riccardo Broglia , Andrea Serani , Michel Visonneau , Matteo Diez

Computer simulations are becoming an essential tool in many scientific fields from molecular dynamics to aeronautics. In glaciology, future predictions of sea level change require input from ice sheet models. Due to uncertainties in the…

Multi-fidelity optimization employs surrogate models that integrate information from varying levels of fidelity to guide efficient exploration of complex design spaces while minimizing the reliance on (expensive) high-fidelity objective…

Real-world black-box optimization often involves time-consuming or costly experiments and simulations. Multi-fidelity optimization (MFO) stands out as a cost-effective strategy that balances high-fidelity accuracy with computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Ke Li , Fan Li

Optimizing complex manufacturing processes often involves a trade-off between data accuracy and acquisition cost. High-fidelity data are accurate but limited, while low-fidelity data are abundant but often biased. Balancing these two…

Both computational and experimental material discovery bring forth the challenge of exploring multidimensional and often non-differentiable parameter spaces, such as phase diagrams of Hamiltonians with multiple interactions, composition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Arpan Biswas , Sai Mani Prudhvi Valleti , Rama Vasudevan , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

The present study proposes an optimized computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling framework to provide a complete and accurate representation of combustion and heat transfer phenomena in the radiation section of an industrial top-fired…

The design of structures and vehicles subject to fluid-structure interaction (FSI) often requires high-fidelity coupled analysis. While the design variables pertain to the structure, the computational cost is dominated by the fluid solver,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Aditya Narkhede , Erick Rivas , Kevin Wang

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has become an essential tool for predicting fire behavior, yet maintaining both efficiency and accuracy remains challenging. A major source of computational cost in fire simulations is the modeling of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-16 Anran Jiao , Wengyao Jiang , Xiaoyi Lu , Yi Wang , Lu Lu

Various frameworks have been proposed to predict mechanical system responses by combining data from different fidelities for design optimization and uncertainty quantification as reviewed by Fern\'andez-Godino et al. and Peherstorfer et…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-05-09 Yiming Zhang , Nam-Ho Kim , Chanyoung Park , Raphael T. Haftka

Simulation-based falsification is a practical testing method to increase confidence that the system will meet safety requirements. Because full-fidelity simulations can be computationally demanding, we investigate the use of simulators with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Zahra Shahrooei , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Ali Baheri

High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are widely used to analyze nuclear reactor transients, but are computationally expensive when exploring large parameter spaces. Multifidelity surrogate models offer an approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Meredith Eaheart , Majdi I. Radaideh

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a foundational strategy in the field of engineering design optimization for efficiently handling black-box functions with many constraints and expensive evaluations. This paper introduces a fast and accurate BO…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Rosen , Yu , Cyril Picard , Faez Ahmed

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

Bayesian optimization (BO) based on Gaussian process regression (GPR) is applied to different CFD (computational fluid dynamics) problems which can be of practical relevance. The problems are i) shape optimization in a lid-driven cavity to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-15 Y. Morita , S. Rezaeiravesh , N. Tabatabaei , R. Vinuesa , K. Fukagata , P. Schlatter

Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimisation (MFBO) has been shown to generally converge faster than single-fidelity Bayesian Optimisation (SFBO) (Poloczek et al. (2017)). Inspired by recent benchmark papers, we are investigating the long-run…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Gbetondji J-S Dovonon , Jakob Zeitler

Bandit methods for black-box optimisation, such as Bayesian optimisation, are used in a variety of applications including hyper-parameter tuning and experiment design. Recently, \emph{multi-fidelity} methods have garnered considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-21 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Gautam Dasarathy , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos