Adaptive Gaussian Process Regression for Efficient Building of Surrogate Models in Inverse Problems

DOI10.1088/1361-6420/AD0028arXiv2303.05824MaRDI QIDQ6429079FDOQ6429079

Publication date: 10 March 2023

Abstract: In a task where many similar inverse problems must be solved, evaluating costly simulations is impractical. Therefore, replacing the model

y

with a surrogate model

y_{s}

that can be evaluated quickly leads to a significant speedup. The approximation quality of the surrogate model depends strongly on the number, position, and accuracy of the sample points. With an additional finite computational budget, this leads to a problem of (computer) experimental design. In contrast to the selection of sample points, the trade-off between accuracy and effort has hardly been studied systematically. We therefore propose an adaptive algorithm to find an optimal design in terms of position and accuracy. Pursuing a sequential design by incrementally appending the computational budget leads to a convex and constrained optimization problem. As a surrogate, we construct a Gaussian process regression model. We measure the global approximation error in terms of its impact on the accuracy of the identified parameter and aim for a uniform absolute tolerance, assuming that

y_{s}

is computed by finite element calculations. A priori error estimates and a coarse estimate of computational effort relate the expected improvement of the surrogate model error to computational effort, resulting in the most efficient combination of sample point and evaluation tolerance. We also allow for improving the accuracy of already existing sample points by continuing previously truncated finite element solution procedures.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35) Response surface designs (62K20) Numerical methods for inverse problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N21)

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