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Title: Gradient-Free Construction of Active Subspaces for Dimension Reduction

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1523205· OSTI ID:1523205

Recent developments in the field of reduced order modeling - and in particular, active subspace construction - have made it possible to efficiently approximate complex models by constructing low-order response surfaces based upon a small subspace of the original high dimensional parameter space. These methods rely upon the fact that the response tends to vary more prominently in a few dominant directions defined by linear combinations of the original inputs, allowing for a rotation of the coordinate axis and a consequent transformation of the parameters. In this talk, we discuss a gradient free active subspace algorithm that is feasible for high dimensional parameter spaces where finite-difference techniques are impractical. We illustrate an initialized gradient-free active subspace algorithm for a neutronics example implemented with SCALE6.1, for input dimensions up to 7700.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
DOE Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1523205
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-19-24739
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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