@inproceedings{
belakaria2024active,
title={Active Learning for Derivative-Based Global Sensitivity Analysis with Gaussian Processes},
author={Syrine Belakaria and Benjamin Letham and Jana Doppa and Barbara E Engelhardt and Stefano Ermon and Eytan Bakshy},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=da0ZJatRCN}
}
We consider the problem of active learning for global sensitivity analysis of expensive black-box functions. Our aim is to efficiently learn the importance of different input variables, e.g., in vehicle safety experimentation, we study the impact of the thickness of various components on safety objectives. Since function evaluations are expensive, we use active learning to prioritize experimental resources where they yield the most value. We propose novel active learning acquisition functions that directly target key quantities of derivative-based global sensitivity measures (DGSMs) under Gaussian process surrogate models.
We showcase the first application of active learning directly to DGSMs, and develop tractable uncertainty reduction and information gain acquisition functions for these measures. Through comprehensive evaluation on synthetic and real-world problems, our study demonstrates how these active learning acquisition strategies substantially enhance the sample efficiency of DGSM estimation, particularly with limited evaluation budgets. Our work paves the way for more efficient and accurate sensitivity analysis in various scientific and engineering applications.
Active Learning for Derivative-Based Global Sensitivity Analysis with Gaussian Processes
Syrine Belakaria Benjamin Letham Jana Doppa Barbara E Engelhardt Stefano Ermon Eytan Bakshy