The Emukit-playground is a demo to illustrate different concepts in emulation an uncertainty quantification.


In uncertainty quantification, and emulator (also called surrogate model) is a name for an statistical model that is used in contexts where the problem is to predict the outputs of a complex (and usually deterministic) computer-based simulation model with some controllable inputs. It is generally the case that runs of the simulation model are computationally expensive. In general, some continuity in the variation of the outputs with respect to the inputs is assumed, which is necessary to enable statistical modelling.

An emulator is therefore the ‘model of a model’: it is an statistical model that aims to predict the unknown outputs of simulation model.

Emukit, has been designed with the idea of facilitate the used of emulators in decision loops. To illustrate these ideas alongside with Emukit we have released the Emukit-playground, an interactive learning tool developed by Adam Hirst for teaching users about emulation-based decision making. The playground allows users to train a working emulator in their browser based on visually driven simulations.

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