Create a polynomial chaos for the Ishigami function: a quick start guide to polynomial chaos

In this example, we create a polynomial chaos for the Ishigami function. We create a sparse polynomial with maximum total degree equal to 8 using the FunctionalChaosAlgorithm class.

Define the model

from openturns.usecases import ishigami_function
import openturns as ot
import openturns.viewer as otv
import math

ot.Log.Show(ot.Log.NONE)
ot.RandomGenerator.SetSeed(0)

We load the Ishigami model :

im = ishigami_function.IshigamiModel()

The IshigamiModel data class contains the input distribution \vect{X}=(X_1, X_2, X_3) in im.distributionX and the Ishigami function in im.model. We also have access to the input variable names with

input_names = im.distributionX.getDescription()

Draw the function

Create a training sample

sampleSize = 1000
inputSample = im.distributionX.getSample(sampleSize)
outputSample = im.model(inputSample)
def plotXvsY(sampleX, sampleY):
    dimX = sampleX.getDimension()
    dimY = sampleY.getDimension()
    descriptionX = sampleX.getDescription()
    descriptionY = sampleY.getDescription()
    grid = ot.GridLayout(dimY, dimX)
    for i in range(dimY):
        for j in range(dimX):
            graph = ot.Graph("", descriptionX[j], descriptionY[i], True, "")
            cloud = ot.Cloud(sampleX[:, j], sampleY[:, i])
            graph.add(cloud)
            if j == 0:
                graph.setYTitle(descriptionY[i])
            else:
                graph.setYTitle("")
            if i == dimY - 1:
                graph.setXTitle(descriptionX[j])
            else:
                graph.setXTitle("")
            grid.setGraph(i, j, graph)
    return grid


grid = plotXvsY(inputSample, outputSample)
view = otv.View(grid, figure_kw={"figsize": (12.0, 4.0)})
plot chaos ishigami
graph = ot.HistogramFactory().build(outputSample).drawPDF()
view = otv.View(graph)
y PDF

We see that the distribution of the output has two modes.

Create the polynomial chaos model

Create a training sample

sampleSize = 100
inputTrain = im.distributionX.getSample(sampleSize)
outputTrain = im.model(inputTrain)

Create the chaos.

We could use only the input and output training samples: in this case, the distribution of the input sample is computed by selecting the distribution that has the best fit.

chaosalgo = ot.FunctionalChaosAlgorithm(inputTrain, outputTrain)

Since the input distribution is known in our particular case, we instead create the multivariate basis from the distribution. We define the orthogonal basis used to expand the function. We see that each input has the uniform distribution, which corresponds to the Legendre polynomials.

multivariateBasis = ot.OrthogonalProductPolynomialFactory([im.X1, im.X2, im.X3])
multivariateBasis
  • dimension: 3
  • enumerate function: class=LinearEnumerateFunction dimension=3
Index Name Distribution Univariate polynomial
0 X1 Uniform LegendreFactory
1 X2 Uniform LegendreFactory
2 X3 Uniform LegendreFactory


Then we create the sparse polynomial chaos expansion using regression and the LARS selection model method.

selectionAlgorithm = ot.LeastSquaresMetaModelSelectionFactory()
projectionStrategy = ot.LeastSquaresStrategy(selectionAlgorithm)
totalDegree = 8
enumerateFunction = multivariateBasis.getEnumerateFunction()
basisSize = enumerateFunction.getBasisSizeFromTotalDegree(totalDegree)
adaptiveStrategy = ot.FixedStrategy(multivariateBasis, basisSize)
chaosAlgo = ot.FunctionalChaosAlgorithm(
    inputTrain, outputTrain, im.distributionX, adaptiveStrategy, projectionStrategy
)

The coefficients of the polynomial expansion can then be estimated using the run() method.

chaosAlgo.run()

The getResult() method returns the result.

chaosResult = chaosAlgo.getResult()

The polynomial chaos result provides a pretty-print.

chaosResult
  • input dimension: 3
  • output dimension: 1
  • distribution dimension: 3
  • transformation: 3 -> 3
  • inverse transformation: 3 -> 3
  • orthogonal basis dimension: 3
  • indices size: 21
  • relative errors: [9.08703e-06]
  • residuals: [0.00577149]
Index Multi-index Coeff.
0 [0,0,0] 3.517248
1 [1,0,0] 1.622862
2 [0,0,1] 0.0009628309
3 [0,2,0] -0.5898958
4 [3,0,0] -1.288589
5 [1,0,2] 1.36247
6 [0,4,0] -1.939777
7 [0,3,1] 0.0006953569
8 [5,0,0] 0.1883195
9 [3,0,2] -1.081184
10 [1,0,4] 0.4106924
11 [0,6,0] 1.358584
12 [0,0,6] -0.002370007
13 [5,0,2] 0.1602851
14 [3,0,4] -0.319932
15 [1,4,2] -0.02412582
16 [0,1,6] -0.0001260937
17 [3,0,5] 0.02958038
18 [1,0,7] -0.01846124
19 [0,8,0] -0.3556474
20 [0,3,5] -0.01987799


Get the metamodel.

metamodel = chaosResult.getMetaModel()

In order to validate the metamodel, we generate a test sample.

n_valid = 1000
inputTest = im.distributionX.getSample(n_valid)
outputTest = im.model(inputTest)
val = ot.MetaModelValidation(inputTest, outputTest, metamodel)
Q2 = val.computePredictivityFactor()[0]
Q2
0.9994752470145457

The Q2 is very close to 1: the metamodel is excellent.

graph = val.drawValidation()
graph.setTitle("Q2=%.2f%%" % (Q2 * 100))
view = otv.View(graph)
Q2=99.95%

The metamodel has a good predictivity, since the points are almost on the first diagonal.

Compute mean and variance

The mean and variance of a polynomial chaos expansion are computed using the coefficients of the expansion. This can be done using FunctionalChaosRandomVector.

randomVector = ot.FunctionalChaosRandomVector(chaosResult)
mean = randomVector.getMean()
print("Mean=", mean)
covarianceMatrix = randomVector.getCovariance()
print("Covariance=", covarianceMatrix)
outputDimension = outputTrain.getDimension()
stdDev = ot.Point(outputDimension)
for i in range(outputDimension):
    stdDev[i] = math.sqrt(covarianceMatrix[i, i])
print("Standard deviation=", stdDev)
Mean= [3.51725]
Covariance= [[ 13.7368 ]]
Standard deviation= [3.70631]

Compute and print Sobol’ indices

By default, printing the object will print the Sobol’ indices and the multi-indices ordered by decreasing part of variance. If a multi-index has a part of variance which is lower than some threshold, it is not printed. This threshold can be customized using the FunctionalChaosSobolIndices-VariancePartThreshold key of the ResourceMap.

chaosSI = ot.FunctionalChaosSobolIndices(chaosResult)
chaosSI
  • input dimension: 3
  • output dimension: 1
  • basis size: 21
  • mean: [3.51725]
  • std-dev: [3.70631]
Input Variable Sobol' index Total index
0 X1 0.315184 0.557148
1 X2 0.442823 0.442894
2 X3 0.000000 0.241993
Index Multi-index Part of variance
6 [0,4,0] 0.273917
1 [1,0,0] 0.191725
5 [1,0,2] 0.135136
11 [0,6,0] 0.134366
4 [3,0,0] 0.120877
9 [3,0,2] 0.085097
3 [0,2,0] 0.025332
10 [1,0,4] 0.012279


We notice the a coefficient with marginal degree equal to 6 has a significant impact on the output variance. Hence, we cannot get a satisfactory polynomial chaos with total degree less that 6.

Draw Sobol’ indices.

dim_input = im.distributionX.getDimension()
first_order = [chaosSI.getSobolIndex(i) for i in range(dim_input)]
total_order = [chaosSI.getSobolTotalIndex(i) for i in range(dim_input)]
input_names = im.model.getInputDescription()
graph = ot.SobolIndicesAlgorithm.DrawSobolIndices(input_names, first_order, total_order)
view = otv.View(graph)
Sobol' indices

The variable which has the largest impact on the output is, taking interactions into account, X1. We see that X1 has interactions with other variables, since the first order indice is less than the total order indice. At first order, X3 has no interactions with other variables since its first order indice is close to zero.

Computing the accuracy

The interesting point with the Ishigami function is that the exact Sobol’ indices are known. We can use that property in order to compute the absolute error on the Sobol’ indices for the polynomial chaos.

To make the comparisons simpler, we gather the results into a list.

S_exact = [im.S1, im.S2, im.S3]
ST_exact = [im.ST1, im.ST2, im.ST3]

Then we perform a loop over the input dimension and compute the absolute error on the Sobol’ indices.

for i in range(im.dim):
    absoluteErrorS = abs(first_order[i] - S_exact[i])
    absoluteErrorST = abs(total_order[i] - ST_exact[i])
    print(
        "X%d, Abs.Err. on S=%.1e, Abs.Err. on ST=%.1e"
        % (i + 1, absoluteErrorS, absoluteErrorST)
    )
X1, Abs.Err. on S=1.3e-03, Abs.Err. on ST=4.4e-04
X2, Abs.Err. on S=4.1e-04, Abs.Err. on ST=4.8e-04
X3, Abs.Err. on S=4.8e-07, Abs.Err. on ST=1.7e-03

We see that the indices are correctly estimated with a low accuracy even if we have use only 100 function evaluations. This shows the good performance of the polynomial chaos in this case.

We can compute the part of the variance of the output explained by each multi-index.

partOfVariance = chaosSI.getPartOfVariance()
chaosResult = chaosSI.getFunctionalChaosResult()
orthogonalBasis = chaosResult.getOrthogonalBasis()
enumerateFunction = orthogonalBasis.getEnumerateFunction()
indices = chaosResult.getIndices()
basisSize = indices.getSize()
print("Index, global index, multi-index, coefficient")
for i in range(basisSize):
    globalIndex = indices[i]
    multiIndex = enumerateFunction(globalIndex)
    if partOfVariance[i] > 1.0e-3:
        print("%d, %d, %s, %.4f" % (i, globalIndex, multiIndex, partOfVariance[i]))
Index, global index, multi-index, coefficient
1, 1, [1,0,0], 0.1917
3, 7, [0,2,0], 0.0253
4, 10, [3,0,0], 0.1209
5, 15, [1,0,2], 0.1351
6, 30, [0,4,0], 0.2739
8, 35, [5,0,0], 0.0026
9, 40, [3,0,2], 0.0851
10, 49, [1,0,4], 0.0123
11, 77, [0,6,0], 0.1344
13, 89, [5,0,2], 0.0019
14, 98, [3,0,4], 0.0075
19, 156, [0,8,0], 0.0092
view.show()