pydacefit
June 28, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
The documentation can be found here: https://www.egr.msu.edu/coinlab/blankjul/pydacefit/
The purpose of this clone is to have a python version of the popular dacefit toolbox in MATLAB .
The toolbox can be found here <https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/38530-surrogate-model-optimization-toolbox>_.
This framework is an exact clone of the original code and the correctness has been checked. Please contact me if you should be scenarios where the values are significantly different ().
Installation
The test problems are uploaded to the PyPi Repository.
.. code:: bash
pip install pydacefit
Usage
.. code:: python
import numpy as np
from pydacefit.corr import Gaussian, Cubic, Exponential, GeneralizedExponential, Spline, Spherical
from pydacefit.dace import DACE
from pydacefit.regr import ConstantRegression, LinearRegression, QuadraticRegression
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# -----------------------------------------------
# Different ways of initialization
# -----------------------------------------------
# kernels and trends are first-class objects -- pass an instance directly.
# regression can be: ConstantRegression(), LinearRegression() or QuadraticRegression()
regression = ConstantRegression()
# regression = LinearRegression()
# regression = QuadraticRegression()
# then define the correlation (all possible correlations are shown below)
# please have a look at the MATLAB document for more details
correlation = Gaussian()
# correlation = Cubic()
# correlation = Exponential()
# correlation = GeneralizedExponential()
# correlation = Spline()
# correlation = Spherical()
# correlation = RationalQuadratic(alpha=0.5) # alpha is a fixed shape parameter
# This initializes a DACEFIT objective using the provided regression and correlation
# because an initial theta is provided and also thetaL and thetaU the hyper parameter
# optimization is done
dacefit = DACE(regr=regression, corr=correlation,
theta=1.0, thetaL=0.00001, thetaU=100)
# if no lower and upper bounds are defined, then no hyperparameter optimization is executed
dacefit_no_hyperparameter_optimization = DACE(regr=regression, corr=correlation,
theta=1.0, thetaL=None, thetaU=None)
# to turn on the automatic relevance detection use a vector for theta and define bounds
dacefit_with_ard = DACE(regr=regression, corr=correlation,
theta=[1.0, 1.0], thetaL=[0.001, 0.0001], thetaU=[20, 20])
# -----------------------------------------------
# Create some data for the purpose of testing
# -----------------------------------------------
def fun(X):
return np.sum(np.sin(X * 2 * np.pi), axis=1)
X = np.random.random((20, 1))
F = fun(X)
# -----------------------------------------------
# Fit the model with the data and predict
# -----------------------------------------------
# create the model and fit it
dacefit.fit(X, F)
# predict values for plotting
_X = np.linspace(0, 1, 100)[:, None]
_F = dacefit.predict(_X)
# -----------------------------------------------
# Plot the results
# -----------------------------------------------
plt.scatter(X, F, label="prediction")
plt.plot(_X, _F, label="data")
plt.legend()
plt.show()
print("MSE: ", np.mean(np.abs(fun(_X)[:, None] - _F)))
Contact
Feel free to contact me if you have any question:
| Julian Blank (blankjul [at] egr.msu.edu) | Michigan State University | Computational Optimization and Innovation Laboratory (COIN) | East Lansing, MI 48824, USA