Stochastic PDE representation of random fields for large-scale Gaussian process regression and statistical finite element analysis
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Abstract (arXiv)
The efficient representation of random fields on geometrically complex domains is crucial for Bayesian modelling in engineering and machine learning. Today's prevalent random field representations are either intended for unbounded domains or are too restrictive in terms of possible field properties. Because of these limitations, techniques leveraging the historically established link between stochastic PDEs (SPDEs) and random fields have been gaining interest. The SPDE representation is especially appealing for engineering applications which already have a finite element discretisation for solving the physical conservation equations. In contrast to the dense covariance matrix of a random field, its inverse, the precision matrix, is usually sparse and equal to the stiffness matrix of an elliptic SPDE. We use the SPDE representation to develop a scalable framework for large-scale statistical finite element analysis and Gaussian process (GP) regression on complex geometries. The statistical finite element method (statFEM) introduced by Girolami et al. (2022) is a novel approach for synthesising measurement data and finite element models. In both statFEM and GP regression, we use the SPDE formulation to obtain the relevant prior probability densities with a sparse precision matrix. The properties of the priors are governed by the parameters and possibly fractional order of the SPDE so that we can model on bounded domains and manifolds anisotropic, non-stationary random fields with arbitrary smoothness. The observation models for statFEM and GP regression are such that the posterior probability densities are Gaussians with a closed-form mean and precision. The respective mean vector and precision matrix and can be evaluated using only sparse matrix operations. We demonstrate the versatility of the proposed framework and its convergence properties with Poisson and thin-shell examples.
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