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Post by Felipe Chegury Viana on Mar 2, 2009 9:37:00 GMT -5
Dear all, Here it is a reference on how to use cross-validation to design conservative surrogates: F. A. C. Viana, V. Picheny, and R.T. Haftka, "USING CROSS-VALIDATION FOR REDUCING RISK OF NON-CONSERVATIVE SURROGATES IN DESIGN OPTIMIZATION," in: Engineering Risk Control and Optimization Conference, Gainesville, FL, USA, February 22-23, 2009. Conservative prediction refers to calculations or approximations that most of the time safely estimate the actual response of the system. In this work we consider the error associated with the use of surrogates, and the use of a safety margin to compensate conservatively for these errors. We propose the use of cross-validation for estimating the safety margin needed to obtain target conservativeness level (percentage of safe predictions). Additionally, we also check how well cross-validation errors can be used to select surrogates that can achieve high conservativeness with minimal loss of accuracy. The approach was tested on two algebraic examples for ten basic surrogates including different instances of kriging, polynomial response surface, radial basis neural networks and support vector regression surrogates. For these examples we found that cross-validation is effective for selecting the safety margin. We also found that cross-validation errors allow us to select a surrogate with the best combination of accuracy and conservativeness. You can find more about it online: fchegury.googlepages.comAll the best, Felipe Viana
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