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Information-theoretic Bayesian optimization techniques have become popular for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions due to their non-myopic qualities. Entropy Search and Predictive Entropy Search both consider the entropy…

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We present MESMOC+, an improved version of Max-value Entropy search for Multi-Objective Bayesian optimization with Constraints (MESMOC). MESMOC+ can be used to solve constrained multi-objective problems when the objectives and the…

Optimisation problems often have multiple conflicting objectives that can be computationally and/or financially expensive. Mono-surrogate Bayesian optimisation (BO) is a popular model-based approach for optimising such black-box functions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 George De Ath , Tinkle Chugh , Alma A. M. Rahat

Real-world black-box optimization often involves time-consuming or costly experiments and simulations. Multi-fidelity optimization (MFO) stands out as a cost-effective strategy that balances high-fidelity accuracy with computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Ke Li , Fan Li

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) and neural architecture search (NAS) are powerful in attaining state-of-the-art machine learning models, with Bayesian optimization (BO) standing out as a mainstream method. Extending BO into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jiantong Jiang , Ajmal Mian

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a prominent approach to optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. The massive computational capability of edge devices such as mobile phones, coupled with privacy concerns, has led to a surging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zhongxiang Dai , Kian Hsiang Low , Patrick Jaillet

Given a Hyperparameter Optimization(HPO) problem, how to design an algorithm to find optimal configurations efficiently? Bayesian Optimization(BO) and the multi-fidelity BO methods employ surrogate models to sample configurations based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yang Zhang , Haiyang Wu , Yuekui Yang

We propose a multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization (MF-BO) framework that integrates computational fluid dynamics (CFD) evaluations with Gaussian-process surrogates to efficiently navigate the accuracy-cost trade-off induced by mesh…

Selecting the optimal combination of a machine learning (ML) algorithm and its hyper-parameters is crucial for the development of high-performance ML systems. However, since the combination of ML algorithms and hyper-parameters is enormous,…

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We consider the problem of constrained multi-objective blackbox optimization using expensive function evaluations, where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions satisfying a set of constraints while minimizing the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a class of global optimization algorithms, suitable for minimizing an expensive objective function in as few function evaluations as possible. While BO budgets are typically given in iterations, this implicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Eric Hans Lee , Valerio Perrone , Cedric Archambeau , Matthias Seeger

We develop the framework of Indirect Query Bayesian Optimization (IQBO), a new class of Bayesian optimization problems where the integrated feedback is given via a conditional expectation of the unknown function $f$ to be optimized. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Mengyan Zhang , Shahine Bouabid , Cheng Soon Ong , Seth Flaxman , Dino Sejdinovic

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an attractive machine learning framework for performing sample-efficient global optimization of black-box functions. The optimization process is guided by an acquisition function that selects points to acquire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Felix Teufel , Carsten Stahlhut , Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an efficient method for optimizing expensive black-box functions. In real-world applications, BO often faces a major problem of missing values in inputs. The missing inputs can happen in two cases. First, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Phuc Luong , Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh

Bayesian optimization is popular for optimizing time-consuming black-box objectives. Nonetheless, for hyperparameter tuning in deep neural networks, the time required to evaluate the validation error for even a few hyperparameter settings…

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We consider the problem of black-box multi-objective optimization (MOO) using expensive function evaluations (also referred to as experiments), where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions by minimizing the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Bayesian optimization (BO) has been widely used to optimize expensive and gradient-free objective functions across various domains. However, existing BO methods have not addressed the objective where both inputs and outputs are functions,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Jingru Huang , Haijie Xu , Manrui Jiang , Chen Zhang

Bayesian optimization is widely used for optimizing expensive black box functions, but most existing approaches focus on scalar responses. In many scientific and engineering settings the response is functional, varying smoothly over an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Pouya Ahadi , Reza Marzban , Ali Adibi , Kamran Paynabar

Information-theoretic Bayesian optimisation techniques have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in tackling important global optimisation problems. However, current information-theoretic approaches require many approximations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-07 Binxin Ru , Mark McLeod , Diego Granziol , Michael A. Osborne

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