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Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular black-box function optimization method, which makes sequential decisions based on a Bayesian model, typically a Gaussian process (GP), of the function. To ensure the quality of the model, transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zhou Fan , Xinran Han , Zi Wang

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a class of sample-efficient global optimization methods, where a probabilistic model conditioned on previous observations is used to determine future evaluations via the optimization of an acquisition function.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Eric Hans Lee , David Eriksson , Bolong Cheng , Michael McCourt , David Bindel

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a standard tool for hyperparameter tuning thanks to its sample efficiency on expensive black-box functions. While most BO pipelines begin with uniform random initialization, default hyperparameter values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Nicolás Villagrán Prieto , Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a surrogate-assisted global optimization technique that has been successfully applied in various fields, e.g., automated machine learning and design optimization. Built upon a so-called infill-criterion and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Elena Raponi , Hao Wang , Mariusz Bujny , Simonetta Boria , Carola Doerr

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a sample-efficient optimization algorithm widely employed across various applications. In some challenging BO tasks, input uncertainty arises due to the inevitable randomness in the optimization process, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Lin Yang , Junlong Lyu , Wenlong Lyu , Zhitang Chen

Bayesian optimization (BO) with Gaussian processes is a powerful methodology to optimize an expensive black-box function with as few function evaluations as possible. The expected improvement (EI) and probability of improvement (PI) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Takuya Kanazawa

This paper proposes the first-ever algorithmic framework for tuning hyper-parameters of stochastic optimization algorithm based on reinforcement learning. Hyper-parameters impose significant influences on the performance of stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Haotian Zhang , Jianyong Sun , Zongben Xu

Existing Bayesian Optimization (BO) methods typically balance exploration and exploitation to optimize costly objective functions. However, these methods often suffer from a significant one-step bias, which may lead to convergence towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ruiyao Miao , Junren Xiao , Shiya Tsang , Hui Xiong , Yingnian Wu

We propose a novel Bayesian optimization (BO) procedure aimed at identifying the ``profile optima'' of a deterministic black-box computer simulation that has a single control parameter and multiple nuisance parameters. The profile optima…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Courtney Kyger , James Fernandez , John A. Grunenwald , James Braun , Annie Booth

Bayesian optimization (BO) aims to minimize a given blackbox function using a model that is updated whenever new evidence about the function becomes available. Here, we address the problem of BO under partially right-censored response data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Frank Hutter , Holger Hoos , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Modern deep learning methods are very sensitive to many hyperparameters, and, due to the long training times of state-of-the-art models, vanilla Bayesian hyperparameter optimization is typically computationally infeasible. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Stefan Falkner , Aaron Klein , Frank Hutter

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a common solution to search optimal hyperparameters based on sample observations of a machine learning model. Existing BO algorithms could converge slowly even collapse when the potential observation noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Lei Cui , Yangguang Li , Xin Lu , Dong An , Fenggang Liu

Bayesian optimisation (BO) algorithms have shown remarkable success in applications involving expensive black-box functions. Traditionally BO has been set as a sequential decision-making process which estimates the utility of query points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Rafael Oliveira , Louis Tiao , Fabio Ramos

We introduce an efficient and robust auto-tuning framework for hyperparameter selection in dimension reduction (DR) algorithms, focusing on large-scale datasets and arbitrary performance metrics. By leveraging Bayesian optimization (BO)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Yin-Ting Liao , Hengrui Luo , Anna Ma

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a sample-efficient black-box optimizer commonly used in search spaces where hyperparameters are independent. However, in many practical AutoML scenarios, there will be dependencies among hyperparameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jiaxing Li , Wei Liu , Chao Xue , Yibing Zhan , Xiaoxing Wang , Weifeng Liu , Dacheng Tao

Parameter settings profoundly impact the performance of machine learning algorithms and laboratory experiments. The classical grid search or trial-error methods are exponentially expensive in large parameter spaces, and Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Vu Nguyen , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Cheng Li , Svetha Venkatesh

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is concerned with the automated search for the most appropriate hyperparameter configuration (HPC) of a parameterized machine learning algorithm. A state-of-the-art HPO method is Hyperband, which, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jasmin Brandt , Marcel Wever , Dimitrios Iliadis , Viktor Bengs , Eyke Hüllermeier

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Jian Wu , Saul Toscano-Palmerin , Peter I. Frazier , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Bayesian Optimization (BO) has shown great promise for the global optimization of functions that are expensive to evaluate, but despite many successes, standard approaches can struggle in high dimensions. To improve the performance of BO,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Sebastian Ament , Carla Gomes

When applying Machine Learning techniques to problems, one must select model parameters to ensure that the system converges but also does not become stuck at the objective function's local minimum. Tuning these parameters becomes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-16 Lawrence Stewart , Mark Stalzer