DecTree: a physics-based geochemical surrogate for surface complexation of uranium on clay
Abstract. Geochemistry is usually the computational bottleneck in coupled reactive transport simulations, which hampers the complexity of the systems and of the processes they can investigate. In recent years, promising speedups have been obtained by substituting the numerical solution of geochemical models with approximated surrogates borrowed from artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). In the framework of the DONUT/EURAD project a set of benchmarks were defined to assess the performance and the accuracy of different surrogate approaches in settings relevant to the safety assessment of nuclear waste repositories, such as the surface complexation and exchange of U (VI) on clay. In this context, this work introduces am original surrogate modelling approach based on recursive partitioning of parameter space, which exploits prior domain knowledge for the training. The surrogate, which can be represented as a decision tree, hence the DecTree name, performs dimensionality reduction by identifying functional relationships between outputs and input variables using a straightforward non-monotonic extension of the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. New predictions are then interpolated from the partitioned training data. Applied to a low-dimensional geochemical model, DecTree shows virtually no training time and excellent accuracy, ensuring a throughput of around 500 000 predictions per second on a single CPU core.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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DecTree: a physics-based geochemical surrogate for surface complexation of uranium on clay ; volume:65 ; year:2024 ; pages:45-54 ; extent:10
Advances in geosciences ; 65 (2024), 45-54 (gesamt 10)
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De Lucia, Marco
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10.5194/adgeo-65-45-2024
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412200731081.542450550093
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:32 AM CEST
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