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Gearing Gaussian process modeling and sequential design towards stochastic simulators

Optimization and Control 2024-12-11 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

This chapter presents specific aspects of Gaussian process modeling in the presence of complex noise. Starting from the standard homoscedastic model, various generalizations from the literature are presented: input varying noise variance, non-Gaussian noise, or quantile modeling. These approaches are compared in terms of goal, data availability and inference procedure. A distinction is made between methods depending on their handling of repeated observations at the same location, also called replication. The chapter concludes with the corresponding adaptations of the sequential design procedures. These are illustrated in an example from epidemiology.

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@article{arxiv.2412.07306,
  title  = {Gearing Gaussian process modeling and sequential design towards stochastic simulators},
  author = {Mickael Binois and Arindam Fadikar and Abby Stevens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07306},
  year   = {2024}
}
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