Deep Bayesian active learning for high-dimensional time-variant reliability analysis

Jingfei Liu

doi:10.1007/s00158-026-04351-5

Deep Bayesian active learning for high-dimensional time-variant reliability analysis

2026-05-21

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DOI：10.1007/s00158-026-04351-5

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Time-variant reliability analysis (TRA) plays an important role for the lifecycle cost optimization, structural safety design, and preventive maintenance management of many complex engineering structures. For overcoming the huge computational burden of high-dimensional time-variant reliability analysis (HDTRA), this paper proposes a novel surrogate modeling method based on deep Bayesian active learning (DBAL). Firstly, a batch representative points selection-based active learning strategy is developed, selecting the most important points from predictive extreme points and predictive failure points in all time trajectories at each iteration. Then, Bayesian deep neural network (BDNN) is utilized to construct the surrogate model for high-dimensional time-variant performance function under the framework of active learning. Furthermore, a confidence-based convergence criterion is proposed to terminate the active training process timely. Finally, the extreme value-based Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) can be implemented to calculate the time-variant reliability by counting the frequency of failure time trajectories, and several numerical examples are analyzed for validating the effectiveness of proposed method.

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High-dimensional problems

Time-variant reliability analysis

Active learning

Bayesian deep neural network

Black-box problem

Deep Bayesian active learning for high-dimensional time-variant reliability analysis

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