Influence of Monte-Carlo sampling on greedy algorithms for variance reduction

Virginie Ehrlacher (ENPC, Paris)

May 09. 2022, 10:30 — 11:20

In this talk will be presented recent results about the mathematical study of an algorithm where a variance reduction technique for the computation of parameter-dependent expectations is applied using a reduced basis paradigm. We study the effect of Monte-Carlo sampling on the theoretical properties of greedy algorithms. In particular, using concentration inequalities for the empirical measure in Wasserstein distance, we provide sufficient conditions on the number of samples used for the computation of empirical variances at each iteration of the greedy procedure to guarantee that the resulting method algorithm is a weak greedy algorithm with high probability. These theoretical results are not fully practical and we therefore propose a heuristic procedure to choose the number of Monte-Carlo samples at each iteration, inspired from this theoretical study, which provides satisfactory results on several numerical test cases.

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Recordings:
Recording
Associated Event:
Computational Uncertainty Quantification: Mathematical Foundations, Methodology & Data (Thematic Programme)
Organizer(s):
Clemens Heitzinger (TU Vienna)
Fabio Nobile (EPFL, Lausanne)
Robert Scheichl (U Heidelberg)
Christoph Schwab (ETH Zurich)
Sara van de Geer (ETH Zurich)
Karen Willcox (U of Texas, Austin)