Improved multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators based on normalizing flows and dimensionality reduction techniques

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Main Authors: Zanoni, Andrea, Geraci, Gianluca, Salvador, Matteo, Menon, Karthik, Marsden, Alison L., Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
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Published: 2023
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author Zanoni, Andrea
Geraci, Gianluca
Salvador, Matteo
Menon, Karthik
Marsden, Alison L.
Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
author_facet Zanoni, Andrea
Geraci, Gianluca
Salvador, Matteo
Menon, Karthik
Marsden, Alison L.
Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
contents We study the problem of multifidelity uncertainty propagation for computationally expensive models. In particular, we consider the general setting where the high-fidelity and low-fidelity models have a dissimilar parameterization both in terms of number of random inputs and their probability distributions, which can be either known in closed form or provided through samples. We derive novel multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators which rely on a shared subspace between the high-fidelity and low-fidelity models where the parameters follow the same probability distribution, i.e., a standard Gaussian. We build the shared space employing normalizing flows to map different probability distributions into a common one, together with linear and nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques, active subspaces and autoencoders, respectively, which capture the subspaces where the models vary the most. We then compose the existing low-fidelity model with these transformations and construct modified models with an increased correlation with the high-fidelity model, which therefore yield multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators with reduced variance. A series of numerical experiments illustrate the properties and advantages of our approaches.
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spellingShingle Improved multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators based on normalizing flows and dimensionality reduction techniques
Zanoni, Andrea
Geraci, Gianluca
Salvador, Matteo
Menon, Karthik
Marsden, Alison L.
Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
Methodology
We study the problem of multifidelity uncertainty propagation for computationally expensive models. In particular, we consider the general setting where the high-fidelity and low-fidelity models have a dissimilar parameterization both in terms of number of random inputs and their probability distributions, which can be either known in closed form or provided through samples. We derive novel multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators which rely on a shared subspace between the high-fidelity and low-fidelity models where the parameters follow the same probability distribution, i.e., a standard Gaussian. We build the shared space employing normalizing flows to map different probability distributions into a common one, together with linear and nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques, active subspaces and autoencoders, respectively, which capture the subspaces where the models vary the most. We then compose the existing low-fidelity model with these transformations and construct modified models with an increased correlation with the high-fidelity model, which therefore yield multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators with reduced variance. A series of numerical experiments illustrate the properties and advantages of our approaches.
title Improved multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators based on normalizing flows and dimensionality reduction techniques
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12361