Multi-fidelity modeling with different input domain definitions using deep Gaussian processes

Multi-fidelity approaches combine different models built on a scarce but accurate dataset (high-fidelity dataset), and a large but approximate one (low-fidelity dataset) in order to improve the prediction accuracy. Gaussian processes (GPs) are one of the popular approaches to exhibit the correlations between these different fidelity levels. Deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) that are functional compositions of GPs have also been adapted to multi-fidelity using the multi-fidelity deep Gaussian process (MF-DGP) model. This model increases the expressive power compared to GPs by considering non-linear correlations between fidelities within a Bayesian framework. However, these multi-fidelity methods consider only the case where the inputs of the different fidelity models are defined over the same domain of definition (e.g., same variables, same dimensions). However, due to simplification in the modeling of the low fidelity, some variables may be omitted or a different parametrization may be used compared to the high-fidelity model. In this paper, deep Gaussian processes for multi-fidelity (MF-DGP) are extended to the case where a different parametrization is used for each fidelity. The performance of the proposed multi-fidelity modeling technique is assessed on analytical test cases and on structural and aerodynamic real physical problems.

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Multi-fidelity approaches combine high-fidelity and low-fidelity datasets to improve prediction accuracy. Gaussian processes and deep Gaussian processes are popular methods, with the latter enhancing expressive power by considering nonlinear correlations between fidelities. However, existing methods only consider the case where inputs of different fidelity models are defined over the same domain.