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Knowledge-based modeling of simulation behavior for Bayesian optimization
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Abstract
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Numerical simulations consist of many components that affect the simulation accuracy and the required computational resources. However, finding an optimal combination of components and their parameters under constraints can be a difficult, time-consuming and often manual process. Classical adaptivity does not fully solve the problem, as it comes with significant implementation cost and is difficult to expand to multi-dimensional parameter spaces. Also, many existing data-based optimization approaches treat the optimization problem as a black-box, thus requiring a large amount of data. We present a constrained, model-based Bayesian optimization approach that avoids black-box models by leveraging existing knowledge about the simulation components and properties of the simulation behavior. The main focus of this paper is on the stochastic modeling ansatz for simulation error and run time as optimization objective and constraint, respectively. To account for data covering multiple orders of magnitude, our approach operates on a logarithmic scale. The models use a priori knowledge of the simulation components such as convergence orders and run time estimates. Together with suitable priors for the model parameters, the model is able to make accurate predictions of the simulation behavior. Reliably modeling the simulation behavior yields a fast optimization procedure because it enables the optimizer to quickly indicate promising parameter values. We test our approach experimentally using the multi-scale muscle simulation framework OpenDiHu and show that we successfully optimize the time step widths in a time splitting approach in terms of minimizing the overall error under run time constraints.
Keywords:
Bayesian optimization
Constrained optimization
Numerical simulation
Bayesian modeling
Multi-scale simulation