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多级拟蒙特卡罗方法用于对数正态扩散问题

Multilevel Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Lognormal Diffusion Problems

Frances Y. Kuo, Robert Scheichl, Christoph Schwab, Ian H. Sloan, Elisabeth Ullmann

AI总结:

本文提出多级拟蒙特卡罗方法用于对数正态扩散问题,分析其成本和误差,证明其在不确定性量化中的有效性。

摘要:

本文提出了一种基于随机移位拟蒙特卡罗格点规则的多级估计器,用于对数正态扩散问题。这些问题源于地下流不确定性量化问题。我们扩展了[Graham等人,Numer. Math. 2014]中的收敛性分析,给出了多级拟蒙特卡罗有限元离散化的构造性证明。更具体地说,我们提供了适合构造此类规则的参数,以实现多级方案在$\varepsilon$误差下的成本为$\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{-θ})$,其中$θ< 2$,在实践中甚至$θ\approx 1$,对于足够快速衰减的高斯随机场输入的协方差核。这证实了多级采样方法和拟蒙特卡罗方法的应用所带来的收益是互补的。一系列数值实验验证了这些收益。结果表明,多级拟蒙特卡罗方法在实践中优于多级MC方法和单级变体,即使对于非光滑问题也是如此。

英文摘要:

In this paper we present a rigorous cost and error analysis of a multilevel estimator based on randomly shifted Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) lattice rules for lognormal diffusion problems. These problems are motivated by uncertainty quantification problems in subsurface flow. We extend the convergence analysis in [Graham et al., Numer. Math. 2014] to multilevel Quasi-Monte Carlo finite element discretizations and give a constructive proof of the dimension-independent convergence of the QMC rules. More precisely, we provide suitable parameters for the construction of such rules that yield the required variance reduction for the multilevel scheme to achieve an $\varepsilon$-error with a cost of $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{-θ})$ with $θ< 2$, and in practice even $θ\approx 1$, for sufficiently fast decaying covariance kernels of the underlying Gaussian random field inputs. This confirms that the computational gains due to the application of multilevel sampling methods and the gains due to the application of QMC methods, both demonstrated in earlier works for the same model problem, are complementary. A series of numerical experiments confirms these gains. The results show that in practice the multilevel QMC method consistently outperforms both the multilevel MC method and the single-level variants even for non-smooth problems.

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