Yi Guan1, Pengpeng Zhi2,3,*, Zhonglai Wang1,4,*
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.3, pp. 3343-3368, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.069515
- 30 September 2025
Abstract Variable-fidelity (VF) surrogate models have received increasing attention in engineering design optimization as they can approximate expensive high-fidelity (HF) simulations with reduced computational power. A key challenge to building a VF model is devising an adaptive model updating strategy that jointly selects additional low-fidelity (LF) and/or HF samples. The additional samples must enhance the model accuracy while maximizing the computational efficiency. We propose ISMA-VFEEI, a global optimization framework that integrates an Improved Slime-Mould Algorithm (ISMA) and a Variable-Fidelity Expected Extension Improvement (VFEEI) learning function to construct a VF surrogate model efficiently. First, A cost-aware VFEEI More >