“…Various surrogate models have been applied for GSA, including radial basis functions [6], Kriging/Gaussian process regression [7], [8], support vector regression [9], [10], random forest [11], and polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) [12], [13]; for most of the papers in surrogate-based GSA, Sobol indices [14] is the most widely used GSA method. Another possibility is to deploy a neural network as an approximation model [15], [16]. PCE is especially advantageous for GSA since the estimated Sobol indices can be exactly computed from the PCE coefficients [12].…”