Estimating Derivatives of Noisy Simulations

  • Authors:
  • Jorge J. Moré;Stefan M. Wild

  • Affiliations:
  • Argonne National Laboratory;Argonne National Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We employ recent work on computational noise to obtain near-optimal difference estimates of the derivative of a noisy function. Our analysis relies on a stochastic model of the noise without assuming a specific form of distribution. We use this model to derive theoretical bounds for the errors in the difference estimates and obtain an easily computable difference parameter that is provably near-optimal. Numerical results closely resemble the theory and show that we obtain accurate derivative estimates even when the noisy function is deterministic.