Bi-fidelity variational auto-encoder for uncertainty quantification

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DOI10.1016/J.CMA.2024.116793arXiv2305.16530OpenAlexW4391797872MaRDI QIDQ6202982FDOQ6202982


Authors: Nuojin Cheng, Osman Asif Malik, Subhayan De, S. Becker, Alireza Doostan Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 March 2024

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantifying the uncertainty of quantities of interest (QoIs) from physical systems is a primary objective in model validation. However, achieving this goal entails balancing the need for computational efficiency with the requirement for numerical accuracy. To address this trade-off, we propose a novel bi-fidelity formulation of variational auto-encoders (BF-VAE) designed to estimate the uncertainty associated with a QoI from low-fidelity (LF) and high-fidelity (HF) samples of the QoI. This model allows for the approximation of the statistics of the HF QoI by leveraging information derived from its LF counterpart. Specifically, we design a bi-fidelity auto-regressive model in the latent space that is integrated within the VAE's probabilistic encoder-decoder structure. An effective algorithm is proposed to maximize the variational lower bound of the HF log-likelihood in the presence of limited HF data, resulting in the synthesis of HF realizations with a reduced computational cost. Additionally, we introduce the concept of the bi-fidelity information bottleneck (BF-IB) to provide an information-theoretic interpretation of the proposed BF-VAE model. Our numerical results demonstrate that BF-VAE leads to considerably improved accuracy, as compared to a VAE trained using only HF data when limited HF data is available.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16530







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