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We study an algorithm-independent, worst-case lower bound for the Gaussian process (GP) bandit problem in the frequentist setting, where the reward function is fixed and has a bounded norm in the known reproducing kernel Hilbert space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shogo Iwazaki

Many applications require a learner to make sequential decisions given uncertainty regarding both the system's payoff function and safety constraints. In safety-critical systems, it is paramount that the learner's actions do not violate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Sanae Amani , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Christos Thrampoulidis

Consider the sequential optimization of an expensive to evaluate and possibly non-convex objective function $f$ from noisy feedback, that can be considered as a continuum-armed bandit problem. Upper bounds on the regret performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-11 Sattar Vakili , Kia Khezeli , Victor Picheny

We study the Gaussian process (GP) bandit problem, whose goal is to minimize regret under an unknown reward function lying in some reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). The maximum posterior variance analysis is vital in analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shogo Iwazaki , Shion Takeno

Gaussian process (GP) based Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful method for optimizing black-box functions efficiently. The practical performance and theoretical guarantees of this approach depend on having the correct GP hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-07 Huong Ha , Vu Nguyen , Hung Tran-The , Hongyu Zhang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel

This paper analyses the problem of Gaussian process (GP) bandits with deterministic observations. The analysis uses a branch and bound algorithm that is related to the UCB algorithm of (Srinivas et al., 2010). For GPs with Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Nando de Freitas , Alex Smola , Masrour Zoghi

The Gaussian process bandit is a problem in which we want to find a maximizer of a black-box function with the minimum number of function evaluations. If the black-box function varies with time, then time-varying Bayesian optimization is a…

In many scientific and engineering applications, we are tasked with the maximisation of an expensive to evaluate black box function $f$. Traditional settings for this problem assume just the availability of this single function. However, in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-19 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Gautam Dasarathy , Junier B. Oliva , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

We study the regret minimization problem in the novel setting of generalized kernelized bandits (GKBs), where we optimize an unknown function $f^*$ belonging to a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) having access to samples generated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Alberto Maria Metelli , Simone Drago , Marco Mussi

We consider the stochastic bandit problem with a continuous set of arms, with the expected reward function over the arms assumed to be fixed but unknown. We provide two new Gaussian process-based algorithms for continuous bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Aditya Gopalan

Gaussian processes (GP) are a widely-adopted tool used to sequentially optimize black-box functions, where evaluations are costly and potentially noisy. Recent works on GP bandits have proposed to move beyond random noise and devise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-17 Eric Han , Jonathan Scarlett

We study a time-varying Bayesian optimization problem with bandit feedback, where the reward function belongs to a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). We approach the problem via an upper-confidence bound Gaussian Process algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Eliabelle Mauduit , Eloïse Berthier , Andrea Simonetto

This paper studies kernelized bandits (also known as Gaussian process bandits) in an adversarial environment, where the reward functions in a known reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) may be adversarially chosen at each round. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shogo Iwazaki

In this paper, we consider algorithm-independent lower bounds for the problem of black-box optimization of functions having a bounded norm is some Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), which can be viewed as a non-Bayesian Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-25 Xu Cai , Jonathan Scarlett

By enabling constraint-aware online model adaptation, model predictive control using Gaussian process (GP) regression has exhibited impressive performance in real-world applications and received considerable attention in the learning-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Amon Lahr , Andrea Zanelli , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We consider the sequential Bayesian optimization problem with bandit feedback, adopting a formulation that allows for the reward function to vary with time. We model the reward function using a Gaussian process whose evolution obeys a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-26 Ilija Bogunovic , Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

We study black-box vector optimization with Gaussian process bandits, where there is an incomplete order relation on objective vectors described by a polyhedral convex cone. Existing black-box vector optimization approaches either suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 İlter Onat Korkmaz , Yaşar Cahit Yıldırım , Çağın Ararat , Cem Tekin

Gaussian process (GP) bandits provide a powerful framework for performing blackbox optimization of unknown functions. The characteristics of the unknown function depend heavily on the assumed GP prior. Most work in the literature assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jack Sandberg , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

This paper analyzes the problem of Gaussian process (GP) bandits with deterministic observations. The analysis uses a branch and bound algorithm that is related to the UCB algorithm of (Srinivas et al, 2010). For GPs with Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Nando de Freitas , Alex Smola , Masrour Zoghi

Gaussian processes (GPs) provide flexible distributions over functions, with inductive biases controlled by a kernel. However, in many applications Gaussian processes can struggle with even moderate input dimensionality. Learning a low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Ian A. Delbridge , David S. Bindel , Andrew Gordon Wilson