Curse of Dimensionality in Bayesian Model Updating

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Autori principali: Binbin, Li, Zihan, Liao
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author Binbin, Li
Zihan, Liao
author_facet Binbin, Li
Zihan, Liao
contents Bayesian approach provides a coherent framework to address the model updating problem in structural health monitoring. The current practice, however, only focuses on low-dimension model (generally no more than 20 parameters), which limits the accuracy and predictability of the updated model. This paper aims at understanding the curse of dimensionality in Bayesian model updating, and thus proposing feasible strategies to overcome it. An analytical investigation is conducted, which allows us to answer fundamental questions in Bayesian analysis, e.g., where the posterior mass locates and how large of it comparing to the prior volume. The key concept here is the distance from the prior to the posterior, which makes the parameter estimation really difficult in high-dimension problems. In this sense, not only the dimensionality matters, but also the multi-modality, the pronounced degeneracy, and other factors that influence the prior-posterior distance matter.
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spellingShingle Curse of Dimensionality in Bayesian Model Updating
Binbin, Li
Zihan, Liao
Methodology
Statistics Theory
Bayesian approach provides a coherent framework to address the model updating problem in structural health monitoring. The current practice, however, only focuses on low-dimension model (generally no more than 20 parameters), which limits the accuracy and predictability of the updated model. This paper aims at understanding the curse of dimensionality in Bayesian model updating, and thus proposing feasible strategies to overcome it. An analytical investigation is conducted, which allows us to answer fundamental questions in Bayesian analysis, e.g., where the posterior mass locates and how large of it comparing to the prior volume. The key concept here is the distance from the prior to the posterior, which makes the parameter estimation really difficult in high-dimension problems. In this sense, not only the dimensionality matters, but also the multi-modality, the pronounced degeneracy, and other factors that influence the prior-posterior distance matter.
title Curse of Dimensionality in Bayesian Model Updating
topic Methodology
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17744