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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09930v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:44:13 GMT
• Title: Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization With Mixed-categorical Design Variables for Expensive-to-evaluate Aeronautical Applications
• Authors: Nathalie Bartoli, Thierry Lefebvre, Rémi Lafage, Paul Saves, Youssef Diouane, Joseph Morlier, Jasper Bussemaker, Giuseppa Donelli, Joao Marcos Gomes de Mello, Massimo Mandorino, Pierluigi Della Vecchia,
• Abstract summary: This work aims at developing new methodologies to optimize computational costly complex systems.<n>The proposed surrogate-based method (often called Bayesian optimization) uses adaptive sampling to promote a trade-off between exploration and exploitation.<n>The effectiveness of proposed method was tested on practical aeronautical applications within the context of the European Project AGILE 4.0.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This work aims at developing new methodologies to optimize computational costly complex systems (e.g., aeronautical engineering systems). The proposed surrogate-based method (often called Bayesian optimization) uses adaptive sampling to promote a trade-off between exploration and exploitation. Our in-house implementation, called SEGOMOE, handles a high number of design variables (continuous, discrete or categorical) and nonlinearities by combining mixtures of experts for the objective and/or the constraints. Additionally, the method handles multi-objective optimization settings, as it allows the construction of accurate Pareto fronts with a minimal number of function evaluations. Different infill criteria have been implemented to handle multiple objectives with or without constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed method was tested on practical aeronautical applications within the context of the European Project AGILE 4.0 and demonstrated favorable results. A first example concerns a retrofitting problem where a comparison between two optimizers have been made. A second example introduces hierarchical variables to deal with architecture system in order to design an aircraft family. The third example increases drastically the number of categorical variables as it combines aircraft design, supply chain and manufacturing process. In this article, we show, on three different realistic problems, various aspects of our optimization codes thanks to the diversity of the treated aircraft problems.

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