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Many real-world tasks require optimizing expensive black-box functions accessible only through noisy evaluations, a setting commonly addressed with Bayesian optimization (BO). While Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have recently emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Farhad Mirkarimi

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

Bayesian optimization (BO) based on Gaussian process regression (GPR) is applied to different CFD (computational fluid dynamics) problems which can be of practical relevance. The problems are i) shape optimization in a lid-driven cavity to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-15 Y. Morita , S. Rezaeiravesh , N. Tabatabaei , R. Vinuesa , K. Fukagata , P. Schlatter

Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithms form a class of surrogate-based heuristics, aimed at efficiently computing high-quality solutions for numerical black-box optimization problems. The BO pipeline is highly modular, with different design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Carolin Benjamins , Anja Jankovic , Elena Raponi , Koen van der Blom , Marius Lindauer , Carola Doerr

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular global optimization scheme for sample-efficient optimization in domains with expensive function evaluations. The existing BO techniques are capable of finding a single global optimum solution.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Yongsheng Mei , Tian Lan , Mahdi Imani , Suresh Subramaniam

Latent-space Bayesian optimization (LSBO) extends Bayesian optimization to structured domains, such as molecular design, by searching in the continuous latent space of a generative model. However, most LSBO methods assume a fixed objective,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Tuan A. Vu , Julien Martinelli , Harri Lähdesmäki

To discover novel materials with high performance, there have been many attempts to adopt Bayesian optimization (BO) to materials science, owing to its efficiency in navigating complex and high-dimensional design spaces. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-12 Sanghyeon Park , Yoonsu Shim , Junpyo Hur , Dongmin Jeon , Jong Min Yuk , Chan-Woo Lee

Bayesian Optimization (BO) has been widely used to efficiently optimize expensive black-box functions with limited evaluations. In this paper, we investigate the use of BO for prompt engineering to enhance text classification with Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Adam Ballew , Jingbo Wang , Shaogang Ren

Machine learning (ML) has been increasingly used for topology optimization (TO). However, most existing ML-based approaches focus on simplified benchmark problems due to their high computational cost, spectral bias, and difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xiangyu Sun , Shirin Hosseinmardi , Amin Yousefpour , Ramin Bostanabad

Unsupervised and semi-supervised ML methods such as variational autoencoders (VAE) have become widely adopted across multiple areas of physics, chemistry, and materials sciences due to their capability in disentangling representations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Arpan Biswas , Rama Vasudevan , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

Bayesian optimization is an effective technique for black-box optimization, but its applicability is typically limited to low-dimensional and small-budget problems due to the cubic complexity of computing the Gaussian process (GP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yunyue Wei , Vincent Zhuang , Saraswati Soedarmadji , Yanan Sui

Topology optimization (TO) provides a principled mathematical approach for optimizing the performance of a structure by designing its material spatial distribution in a pre-defined domain and subject to a set of constraints. The majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Amin Yousefpour , Shirin Hosseinmardi , Carlos Mora , Ramin Bostanabad

In many high-throughput experimental design settings, such as those common in biochemical engineering, batched queries are more cost effective than one-by-one sequential queries. Furthermore, it is often not possible to directly choose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Kevin K. Yang , Yuxin Chen , Alycia Lee , Yisong Yue

Graph-structured data are central to many scientific and industrial applications where the goal is to optimize expensive black-box objectives defined over graph structures or node configurations -- as seen in molecular design, supply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Yilin Xie , Shiqiang Zhang , Jixiang Qing , Ruth Misener , Calvin Tsay

The accelerating pace and expanding scope of materials discovery demand optimization frameworks that efficiently navigate vast, nonlinear design spaces while judiciously allocating limited evaluation resources. We present a cost-aware,…

Automatic Machine Learning (Auto-ML) systems tackle the problem of automating the design of prediction models or pipelines for data science. In this paper, we present Lifelong Bayesian Optimization (LBO), an online, multitask Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-24 Yao Zhang , James Jordon , Ahmed M. Alaa , Mihaela van der Schaar

Given the increasing importance of machine learning (ML) in our lives, several algorithmic fairness techniques have been proposed to mitigate biases in the outcomes of the ML models. However, most of these techniques are specialized to…

Bayesian optimisation in the latent space of a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) is a powerful framework for optimisation tasks over complex structured domains, such as the space of scientifically interesting molecules. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Henry B. Moss , Sebastian W. Ober , Tom Diethe

Modern scientific and engineering design increasingly involves distributed optimization, where agents such as laboratories, simulations, or industrial partners pursue related goals under differing conditions. These agents often face…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Zihan Wang , Yi-Ping Chen , Tuba Dolar , Wei Chen

There are a large number of optimization problems in physical models where the relationships between model parameters and outputs are unknown or hard to track. These models are named as black-box models in general because they can only be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhongkai Shangguan , Lei Lin , Wencheng Wu , Beilei Xu