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Bayesian optimization (BO) is a widely used approach to hyperparameter optimization (HPO). However, most existing HPO methods only incorporate expert knowledge during initialization, limiting practitioners' ability to influence the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lukas Fehring , Marcel Wever , Maximilian Spliethöver , Leona Hennig , Henning Wachsmuth , Marius Lindauer

Bayesian optimization is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. High-dimensional problems are particularly challenging as the surrogate model of the objective suffers from the curse of dimensionality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Erik Orm Hellsten , Carl Hvarfner , Leonard Papenmeier , Luigi Nardi

While Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a very popular method for optimizing expensive black-box functions, it fails to leverage the experience of domain experts. This causes BO to waste function evaluations on bad design choices (e.g., machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Artur Souza , Luigi Nardi , Leonardo B. Oliveira , Kunle Olukotun , Marius Lindauer , Frank Hutter

Controller tuning and parameter optimization are crucial in system design to improve both the controller and underlying system performance. Bayesian optimization has been established as an efficient model-free method for controller tuning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Christopher Koenig , Miks Ozols , Anastasia Makarova , Efe C. Balta , Andreas Krause , Alisa Rupenyan

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 present a novel data-driven nested optimization framework that addresses the problem of coupling between plant and controller optimization. This optimization strategy is tailored towards instances where a closed-form expression for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ali Baheri , Chris Vermillion

Bayesian optimization has emerged as a highly effective tool for the safe online optimization of systems, due to its high sample efficiency and noise robustness. To further enhance its efficiency, reduced physical models of the system can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jannis O. Lübsen , Christian Hespe , Annika Eichler

PHYSBO (optimization tools for PHYSics based on Bayesian Optimization) is a Python library for fast and scalable Bayesian optimization. It has been developed mainly for application in the basic sciences such as physics and materials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Yuichi Motoyama , Ryo Tamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Kei Terayama , Tsuyoshi Ueno , Koji Tsuda

In Bayesian Optimization (BO) we study black-box function optimization with noisy point evaluations and Bayesian priors. Convergence of BO can be greatly sped up by batching, where multiple evaluations of the black-box function are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Elvis Nava , Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause

In this paper, a new non-search based synthesis algorithm for reversible circuits is proposed. Compared with the widely used search-based methods, our algorithm is guarantied to produce a result and can lead to a solution with much fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Mehdi Saeedi , Mehdi Sedighi , Morteza Saheb Zamani

Black-box zero-th order optimization is a central primitive for applications in fields as diverse as finance, physics, and engineering. In a common formulation of this problem, a designer sequentially attempts candidate solutions, receiving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yunchuan Zhang , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone

Analog circuit design is a time-consuming, experience-driven task in chip development. Despite advances in AI, developing universal, fast, and stable gate sizing methods for analog circuits remains a significant challenge. Recent approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xinyue Wu , Fan Hu , Shaik Jani Babu , Yi Zhao , Xinfei Guo

Bayesian optimization (BO) has gained attention as an efficient algorithm for black-box optimization of expensive-to-evaluate systems, where the BO algorithm iteratively queries the system and suggests new trials based on a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Eike Cramer , Luis Kutschat , Oliver Stollenwerk , Joel A. Paulson , Alexander Mitsos

The complex non-linear processes in multi-dimensional parameter spaces, that are typical for an accelerator, are a natural application for machine learning algorithms. This paper reports on the use of Bayesian optimization for the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 A. Awal , J. Hetzel , R. Gebel , V. Kamerdzhiev , J. Pretz

Gaussian Process bandit optimization has emerged as a powerful tool for optimizing noisy black box functions. One example in machine learning is hyper-parameter optimization where each evaluation of the target function requires training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tarun Kathuria , Amit Deshpande , Pushmeet Kohli

Most existing black-box optimization methods assume that all variables in the system being optimized have equal cost and can change freely at each iteration. However, in many real world systems, inputs are passed through a sequence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Chi-Heng Lin , Joseph D. Miano , Eva L. Dyer

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular method to optimize costly black-box functions. While traditional BO optimizes each new target task from scratch, meta-learning has emerged as a way to leverage knowledge from related tasks to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jiarong Pan , Stefan Falkner , Felix Berkenkamp , Joaquin Vanschoren

Bayesian optimisation (BO) has been a successful approach to optimise functions which are expensive to evaluate and whose observations are noisy. Classical BO algorithms, however, do not account for errors about the location where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Rafael Oliveira , Lionel Ott , Fabio Ramos

Bayesian optimization has emerged as a strong candidate tool for global optimization of functions with expensive evaluation costs. However, due to the dynamic nature of research in Bayesian approaches, and the evolution of computing…

Applications · Statistics 2018-08-24 Ran Rubin

PARyOpt is a python based implementation of the Bayesian optimization routine designed for remote and asynchronous function evaluations. Bayesian optimization is especially attractive for computational optimization due to its low cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Balaji Sesha Sarath Pokuri , Alec Lofquist , Chad M Risko , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian