论文标题
通过自适应顺序采样对离散状态性能函数的可靠性分析，检测失败表面
Reliability analysis of discrete-state performance functions via adaptive sequential sampling with detection of failure surfaces
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论文摘要
本文为工程产品的计算模型或仅返回分类信息的过程提供了一种新的高效和健壮方法，例如成功或失败。对于此类模型，大多数用于估计故障概率的方法，这些方法使用结果的数值来计算梯度或估计与故障表面的接近度。即使性能函数不仅提供了二进制输出，系统的状态也可能是连续输入变量域中定义的非平滑函数，甚至是不连续的函数。在这些情况下，基于经典的基于梯度的方法通常会失败。我们提出了一种简单而有效的算法，该算法可以从随机变量的输入域进行顺序自适应选择点，以扩展和完善简单的基于距离的替代模型。可以在连续采样的任何阶段完成两个不同的任务：（i）失败概率的估计，以及（ii）如果需要进一步改进，则选择最佳的可能候选者进行后续模型评估。选择用于模型评估的下一个点的建议标准最大化了使用候选者分类的预期概率。因此，全球探索和本地剥削之间的完美平衡是自动维持的。该方法可以估计多种故障类型的概率。此外，当可以使用模型评估的数值来构建平滑的替代物时，该算法可以容纳此信息以提高估计概率的准确性。最后，我们定义了一种新的简单但一般的几何测量，对稀有事实概率对单个变量的全局敏感性的全局灵敏度进行了定义，该测量是作为所提出算法的副产品获得的。
The paper presents a new efficient and robust method for rare event probability estimation for computational models of an engineering product or a process returning categorical information only, for example, either success or failure. For such models, most of the methods designed for the estimation of failure probability, which use the numerical value of the outcome to compute gradients or to estimate the proximity to the failure surface, cannot be applied. Even if the performance function provides more than just binary output, the state of the system may be a non-smooth or even a discontinuous function defined in the domain of continuous input variables. In these cases, the classical gradient-based methods usually fail. We propose a simple yet efficient algorithm, which performs a sequential adaptive selection of points from the input domain of random variables to extend and refine a simple distance-based surrogate model. Two different tasks can be accomplished at any stage of sequential sampling: (i) estimation of the failure probability, and (ii) selection of the best possible candidate for the subsequent model evaluation if further improvement is necessary. The proposed criterion for selecting the next point for model evaluation maximizes the expected probability classified by using the candidate. Therefore, the perfect balance between global exploration and local exploitation is maintained automatically. The method can estimate the probabilities of multiple failure types. Moreover, when the numerical value of model evaluation can be used to build a smooth surrogate, the algorithm can accommodate this information to increase the accuracy of the estimated probabilities. Lastly, we define a new simple yet general geometrical measure of the global sensitivity of the rare-event probability to individual variables, which is obtained as a by-product of the proposed algorithm.
