Uncertainty quantification in model discovery by distilling interpretable material constitutive models from Gaussian process posteriors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22345v1
• Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:02:03 GMT
• Title: Uncertainty quantification in model discovery by distilling interpretable material constitutive models from Gaussian process posteriors
• Authors: David Anton, Henning Wessels, Ulrich Römer, Alexander Henkes, Jorge-Humberto Urrea-Quintero,
• Abstract summary: Constitutive model discovery refers to the task of identifying an appropriate model structure.<n>We propose a four-step partially Bayesian framework for uncertainty in model discovery.<n>We demonstrate the capability of our framework for both isotropic and anisotropic experimental data as well as linear and non-linear model libraries.
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• Abstract: Constitutive model discovery refers to the task of identifying an appropriate model structure, usually from a predefined model library, while simultaneously inferring its material parameters. The data used for model discovery are measured in mechanical tests and are thus inevitably affected by noise which, in turn, induces uncertainties. Previously proposed methods for uncertainty quantification in model discovery either require the selection of a prior for the material parameters, are restricted to the linear coefficients of the model library or are limited in the flexibility of the inferred parameter probability distribution. We therefore propose a four-step partially Bayesian framework for uncertainty quantification in model discovery that does not require prior selection for the material parameters and also allows for the discovery of non-linear constitutive models: First, we augment the available stress-deformation data with a Gaussian process. Second, we approximate the parameter distribution by a normalizing flow, which allows for capturing complex joint distributions. Third, we distill the parameter distribution by matching the distribution of stress-deformation functions induced by the parameters with the Gaussian process posterior. Fourth, we perform a Sobol' sensitivity analysis to obtain a sparse and interpretable model. We demonstrate the capability of our framework for both isotropic and anisotropic experimental data as well as linear and non-linear model libraries.

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