English
Related papers

Related papers: BOxCrete: A Bayesian Optimization Open-Source AI M…

200 papers

We propose a novel "tree-averaging" model that utilizes the ensemble of classification and regression trees (CART). Each constituent tree is estimated with a subset of similar data. We treat this grouping of subsets as Bayesian ensemble…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-20 Leo L. Duan , John P. Clancy , Rhonda D. Szczesniak

Determining the optimal data mixture for large language model training remains a challenging problem with an outsized impact on performance. In practice, language model developers continue to rely on heuristic exploration since no…

Polymer composite performance depends significantly on the polymer matrix, additives, processing conditions, and measurement setups. Traditional physics-based optimization methods for these parameters can be slow, labor-intensive, and…

Many engineering problems involve the optimization of computationally expensive models for which derivative information is not readily available. The Bayesian optimization (BO) framework is a particularly promising approach for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Joel A. Paulson , Congwen Lu

Bayesian model averaging enables one to combine the disparate predictions of a number of models in a coherent fashion, leading to superior predictive performance. The improvement in performance arises from averaging models that make…

Applications · Statistics 2011-08-01 Qingzhao Yu , Steven N. MacEachern , Mario Peruggia

This research develops and evaluates machine learning models to predict the mechanical properties of steel-polypropylene fiber-reinforced high-performance concrete (HPC). Three model families were investigated: Extra Trees with XGBoost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jagaran Chakma , Zhiguang Zhou , Badhan Chakma

Data-driven design shows the promise of accelerating materials discovery but is challenging due to the prohibitive cost of searching the vast design space of chemistry, structure, and synthesis methods. Bayesian Optimization (BO) employs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-12 Hengrui Zhang , Wei Wayne Chen , Akshay Iyer , Daniel W. Apley , Wei Chen

Bayesian optimization (BO) has proven to be an effective paradigm for the global optimization of expensive-to-sample systems. One of the main advantages of BO is its use of Gaussian processes (GPs) to characterize model uncertainty which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-30 Leonardo D. González , Victor M. Zavala

Instilling resilience in critical infrastructure (CI) such as dams or power grids is a major challenge for tomorrow's cities and communities. Resilience, here, pertains to a CI's ability to adapt or rapidly recover from disruptive events.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-04 AbdelRahman Eldosouky , Walid Saad , Narayan Mandayam

Conducting nonlinear pushover analysis typically demands intricate and resource-intensive computational attempts, and involves a process that is highly iterative and necessary for satisfying design-defined and also requirements of codes in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Saba Faghirnejad

For exchangeable data, mixture models are an extremely useful tool for density estimation due to their attractive balance between smoothness and flexibility. When additional covariate information is present, mixture models can be extended…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-01 Sara Wade , Vanda Inacio , Sonia Petrone

We introduce Bayesian optimization, a technique developed for optimizing time-consuming engineering simulations and for fitting machine learning models on large datasets. Bayesian optimization guides the choice of experiments during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Peter I. Frazier , Jialei Wang

Artificial intelligent (AI) algorithms, such as deep learning and XGboost, are used in numerous applications including computer vision, autonomous driving, and medical diagnostics. The robustness of these AI algorithms is of great interest…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-30 Jiayi Lian , Laura Freeman , Yili Hong , Xinwei Deng

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER), and Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) programs organized and held the Artificial Intelligence for Earth System…

Adhesive joints are increasingly used in industry for a wide variety of applications because of their favorable characteristics such as high strength-to-weight ratio, design flexibility, limited stress concentrations, planar force transfer,…

Autonomous Experimentation Platforms (AEPs) are advanced manufacturing platforms that, under intelligent control, can sequentially search the material design space (MDS) and identify parameters with the desired properties. At the heart of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan , Imtiaz Ahmed

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently attracted significant attention as it bridges AI with the physical world. Modern embodied AI systems often combine a Large Language Model (LLM)-based planner for high-level task planning…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tong Xie , Yijiahao Qi , Jinqi Wen , Zishen Wan , Yanchi Dong , Zihao Wang , Shaofei Cai , Yitao Liang , Tianyu Jia , Yuan Wang , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

Concrete heterogeneity originates from its production process, which involves bonding aggregates with a binder matrix. This study presents a mesoscale finite element model (MFEM) that offers detailed insights into the fracture process at…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Jan Mašek , Petr Miarka

We present a novel data-driven nested optimization framework that addresses the problem of coupling between plant and controller optimization. This optimization strategy is tailored towards instances where a closed-form expression for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ali Baheri , Chris Vermillion

FourCastNeXt is an optimization of FourCastNet - a global machine learning weather forecasting model - that performs with a comparable level of accuracy and can be trained using around 5% of the original FourCastNet computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Edison Guo , Maruf Ahmed , Yue Sun , Rui Yang , Harrison Cook , Tennessee Leeuwenburg , Ben Evans