Title
Efficient Simulation Sampling Allocation Using Multi-Fidelity Models
Abstract
Simulation is often used to estimate the performance of alternative system designs for selecting the best. For a complex system, high-fidelity simulation is usually time-consuming and expensive. In this paper, we provide a new framework that integrates information from the multi-fidelity models to increase efficiency for selecting the best. A Gaussian mixture model is introduced to capture performance clustering information in the multi-fidelity models. Posterior information obtained by a clustering analysis incorporates both cluster-wise information and idiosyncratic information for each design. We propose a new budget allocation method to efficiently allocate high-fidelity simulation replications, utilizing posterior information. Numerical experiments show that the proposed multi-fidelity framework achieves a significant boost in efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tac.2018.2886165
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
Resource management,Computational modeling,Analytical models,Bayes methods,Optimization,Gaussian mixture model
Resource management,Mathematical optimization,Budget allocation,Sampling (statistics),Cluster analysis,Mixture model,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
8
0018-9286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yijie Peng13212.59
Jie Xu28111.71
Loo Hay Lee3115993.96
J. Q. Hu451.09
Chun-Hung Chen5216.85