Multi-fidelity approaches for general constrained Bayesian optimization with application to aircraft design

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Autores principales: Cordelier, Oihan, Diouane, Youssef, Bartoli, Nathalie, Laurendeau, Eric
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Publicado: 2026
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author Cordelier, Oihan
Diouane, Youssef
Bartoli, Nathalie
Laurendeau, Eric
author_facet Cordelier, Oihan
Diouane, Youssef
Bartoli, Nathalie
Laurendeau, Eric
contents Aircraft design relies heavily on solving challenging and computationally expensive Multidisciplinary Design Optimization problems. In this context, there has been growing interest in multi-fidelity models for Bayesian optimization to improve the MDO process by balancing computational cost and accuracy through the combination of high- and low-fidelity simulation models, enabling efficient exploration of the design process at a minimal computational effort. In the existing literature, fidelity selection focuses only on the objective function to decide how to integrate multiple fidelity levels, balancing precision and computational cost using variance reduction criteria. In this work, we propose novel multi-fidelity selection strategies. Specifically, we demonstrate how incorporating information from both the objective and the constraints can further reduce computational costs without compromising the optimality of the solution. We validate the proposed multi-fidelity optimization strategy by applying it to four analytical test cases, showcasing its effectiveness. The proposed method is used to efficiently solve a challenging aircraft wing aero-structural design problem. The proposed setting uses a linear vortex lattice method and a finite element method for the aerodynamic and structural analysis respectively. We show that employing our proposed multi-fidelity approach leads to $86\%$ to $200\%$ more constraint compliant solutions given a limited budget compared to the state-of-the-art approach.
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spellingShingle Multi-fidelity approaches for general constrained Bayesian optimization with application to aircraft design
Cordelier, Oihan
Diouane, Youssef
Bartoli, Nathalie
Laurendeau, Eric
Optimization and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
Aircraft design relies heavily on solving challenging and computationally expensive Multidisciplinary Design Optimization problems. In this context, there has been growing interest in multi-fidelity models for Bayesian optimization to improve the MDO process by balancing computational cost and accuracy through the combination of high- and low-fidelity simulation models, enabling efficient exploration of the design process at a minimal computational effort. In the existing literature, fidelity selection focuses only on the objective function to decide how to integrate multiple fidelity levels, balancing precision and computational cost using variance reduction criteria. In this work, we propose novel multi-fidelity selection strategies. Specifically, we demonstrate how incorporating information from both the objective and the constraints can further reduce computational costs without compromising the optimality of the solution. We validate the proposed multi-fidelity optimization strategy by applying it to four analytical test cases, showcasing its effectiveness. The proposed method is used to efficiently solve a challenging aircraft wing aero-structural design problem. The proposed setting uses a linear vortex lattice method and a finite element method for the aerodynamic and structural analysis respectively. We show that employing our proposed multi-fidelity approach leads to $86\%$ to $200\%$ more constraint compliant solutions given a limited budget compared to the state-of-the-art approach.
title Multi-fidelity approaches for general constrained Bayesian optimization with application to aircraft design
topic Optimization and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28987