On the performance of multi-fidelity and reduced-dimensional neural emulators for inference of physiological boundary conditions

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Auteurs principaux: Choi, Chloe H., Zanoni, Andrea, Schiavazzi, Daniele E., Marsden, Alison L.
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author Choi, Chloe H.
Zanoni, Andrea
Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
Marsden, Alison L.
author_facet Choi, Chloe H.
Zanoni, Andrea
Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
Marsden, Alison L.
contents Solving inverse problems in cardiovascular modeling is particularly challenging due to the high computational cost of running high-fidelity simulations. In this work, we focus on Bayesian parameter estimation and explore different methods to reduce the computational cost of sampling from the posterior distribution by leveraging low-fidelity approximations. A common approach is to construct a surrogate model for the high-fidelity simulation itself. Another is to build a surrogate for the discrepancy between high- and low-fidelity models. This discrepancy, which is often easier to approximate, is modeled with either a fully connected neural network or a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique that enables surrogate construction in a lower-dimensional space. A third possible approach is to treat the discrepancy between the high-fidelity and surrogate models as random noise and estimate its distribution using normalizing flows. This allows us to incorporate the approximation error into the Bayesian inverse problem by modifying the likelihood function. We validate five different methods which are variations of the above on analytical test cases by comparing them to posterior distributions derived solely from high-fidelity models, assessing both accuracy and computational cost. Finally, we demonstrate our approaches on two cardiovascular examples of increasing complexity: a lumped-parameter Windkessel model and a patient-specific three-dimensional anatomy.
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spellingShingle On the performance of multi-fidelity and reduced-dimensional neural emulators for inference of physiological boundary conditions
Choi, Chloe H.
Zanoni, Andrea
Schiavazzi, Daniele E.
Marsden, Alison L.
Machine Learning
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Statistics Theory
Quantitative Methods
Solving inverse problems in cardiovascular modeling is particularly challenging due to the high computational cost of running high-fidelity simulations. In this work, we focus on Bayesian parameter estimation and explore different methods to reduce the computational cost of sampling from the posterior distribution by leveraging low-fidelity approximations. A common approach is to construct a surrogate model for the high-fidelity simulation itself. Another is to build a surrogate for the discrepancy between high- and low-fidelity models. This discrepancy, which is often easier to approximate, is modeled with either a fully connected neural network or a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique that enables surrogate construction in a lower-dimensional space. A third possible approach is to treat the discrepancy between the high-fidelity and surrogate models as random noise and estimate its distribution using normalizing flows. This allows us to incorporate the approximation error into the Bayesian inverse problem by modifying the likelihood function. We validate five different methods which are variations of the above on analytical test cases by comparing them to posterior distributions derived solely from high-fidelity models, assessing both accuracy and computational cost. Finally, we demonstrate our approaches on two cardiovascular examples of increasing complexity: a lumped-parameter Windkessel model and a patient-specific three-dimensional anatomy.
title On the performance of multi-fidelity and reduced-dimensional neural emulators for inference of physiological boundary conditions
topic Machine Learning
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Statistics Theory
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11683