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most citedSMT 2.0: A Surrogate Modeling Toolbox with a focus on Hierarchical and Mixed Variables Gaussian Processes

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cs.LG2026

Energy-aware frugal Bayesian optimization

Gaston Plat, Paul Saves, Nathalie Bartoli +2

Modern design optimization frameworks aim first and foremost for models with the most accurate predictions without balancing computational overhead. It remains a reason why scaled…

cs.LG2026

From Model-Based Screening to Data-Driven Surrogates: A Multi-Stage Workflow for Exploring Stochastic Agent-Based Models

Paul Saves, Matthieu Mastio, Nicolas Verstaevel +1

Systematic exploration of Agent-Based Models (ABMs) is challenged by the curse of dimensionality and their inherent stochasticity. We present a multi-stage pipeline integrating the…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Analyzing Shapley Additive Explanations to Understand Anomaly Detection Algorithm Behaviors and Their Complementarity

Jordan Levy, Paul Saves, Moncef Garouani +2

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a challenging problem due to the diversity of data distributions and the lack of labels. Ensemble methods are often adopted to mitigate these chal…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Global Sensitivity Analysis for Engineering Design Based on Individual Conditional Expectations

Pramudita Satria Palar, Paul Saves, Rommel G. Regis +4

Explainable machine learning techniques have gained increasing attention in engineering applications, especially in aerospace design and analysis, where understanding how input var…

cs.LG2025

Frequency-aware Surrogate Modeling With SMT Kernels For Advanced Data Forecasting

Nicolas Gonel, Paul Saves, Joseph Morlier

This paper introduces a comprehensive open-source framework for developing correlation kernels, with a particular focus on user-defined and composition of kernels for surrogate mod…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Modeling Hierarchical Spaces: A Review and Unified Framework for Surrogate-Based Architecture Design

Paul Saves, Edward Hallé-Hannan, Jasper Bussemaker +2

Simulation-based problems involving mixed-variable inputs frequently feature domains that are hierarchical, conditional, heterogeneous, or tree-structured. These characteristics po…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization With Mixed-categorical Design Variables for Expensive-to-evaluate Aeronautical Applications

Nathalie Bartoli, Thierry Lefebvre, Rémi Lafage +8

This work aims at developing new methodologies to optimize computational costly complex systems (e.g., aeronautical engineering systems). The proposed surrogate-based method (often…

cs.LG2025★ 7 cited

Surrogate-based optimization of system architectures subject to hidden constraints

Jasper Bussemaker, Paul Saves, Nathalie Bartoli +2

The exploration of novel architectures requires physics-based simulation due to a lack of prior experience to start from, which introduces two specific challenges for optimization…

cs.LG2025★ 11 cited

Regularized infill criteria for multi-objective Bayesian optimization with application to aircraft design

Robin Grapin, Youssef Diouane, Joseph Morlier +4

Bayesian optimization is an advanced tool to perform ecient global optimization It consists on enriching iteratively surrogate Kriging models of the objective and the constraints b…

cs.LG2025

SMT-EX: An Explainable Surrogate Modeling Toolbox for Mixed-Variables Design Exploration

Mohammad Daffa Robani, Paul Saves, Pramudita Satria Palar +2

Surrogate models are of high interest for many engineering applications, serving as cheap-to-evaluate time-efficient approximations of black-box functions to help engineers and pra…

cs.LG2025

Bayesian Optimization of a Lightweight and Accurate Neural Network for Aerodynamic Performance Prediction

James M. Shihua, Paul Saves, Rhea P. Liem +1

Ensuring high accuracy and efficiency of predictive models is paramount in the aerospace industry, particularly in the context of multidisciplinary design and optimization processe…

cs.LG2023★ 125 cited

SMT 2.0: A Surrogate Modeling Toolbox with a focus on Hierarchical and Mixed Variables Gaussian Processes

Paul Saves, Remi Lafage, Nathalie Bartoli +6

The Surrogate Modeling Toolbox (SMT) is an open-source Python package that offers a collection of surrogate modeling methods, sampling techniques, and a set of sample problems. Thi…