English
Related papers

Related papers: Bayesian Optimisation for Sequential Experimental …

200 papers

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

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a well-established method for addressing black-box optimization problems. In many real-world scenarios, optimization often involves multiple functions, emphasizing the importance of leveraging data and learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Khoa Nguyen , Viet Huynh , Binh Tran , Tri Pham , Tin Huynh , Thin Nguyen

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) 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

This research delves into optimizing mechanism design, with an emphasis on the energy efficiency and the expansive design possibilities of reciprocating mechanisms. It investigates how to efficiently integrate Computer-Aided Design (CAD)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Abdelmajid Ben Yahya , Santiago Ramos Garces , Nick Van Oosterwyck , Annie Cuyt , Stijn Derammelaere

Bayesian optimization (BO) has contributed greatly to improving model performance by suggesting promising hyperparameter configurations iteratively based on observations from multiple training trials. However, only partial knowledge (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 HyunJae Lee , Heon Song , Hyeonsoo Lee , Gi-hyeon Lee , Suyeong Park , Donggeun Yoo

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

Efficient design of genomic perturbation experiments is crucial for accelerating drug discovery and therapeutic target identification, yet exhaustive perturbation of the human genome remains infeasible due to the vast search space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Yanke Li , Tianyu Cui , Tommaso Mansi , Mangal Prakash , Rui Liao

Bayesian optimization has become widely popular across various experimental sciences due to its favorable attributes: it can handle noisy data, perform well with relatively small datasets, and provide adaptive suggestions for sequential…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-15 Maximilian Siska , Emma Pajak , Katrin Rosenthal , Antonio del Rio Chanona , Eric von Lieres , Laura Marie Helleckes

Parameter tuning in real-world experiments is constrained by the limited evaluation budget available on hardware. The path-following controller studied in this paper reflects a typical situation in nonlinear geometric controller, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhewen Zheng , Wenjing Cao , Hongkang Yu , Mo Chen , Takashi Suzuki

Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely used to accelerate physics and materials research, where objective function evaluations are computationally or experimentally expensive. While many BO frameworks focus on algorithmic efficiency,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yuichi Motoyama , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Tatsumi Aoyama , Kei Terayama , Koji Tsuda , Ryo Tamura

Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) is a principled framework for making efficient use of limited experimental resources. Unfortunately, its applicability is hampered by the difficulty of obtaining accurate estimates of the expected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-15 Adam Foster , Martin Jankowiak , Eli Bingham , Paul Horsfall , Yee Whye Teh , Tom Rainforth , Noah Goodman

A high fidelity fluid-structure interaction simulation may require many days to run, on hundreds of cores. This poses a serious burden, both in terms of time and economic considerations, when repetitions of such simulations may be required…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Wensi Wu , Christophe Bonneville , Christopher J. Earls

Automatic controller tuning is attractive for robotics and mechatronic systems whose dynamics are difficult to model accurately, but direct black-box optimization can be unsafe because each query is executed on the physical plant. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hongxuan Wang , Xiaocong Li , Lihao Zheng , Adrish Bhaumik , Prahlad Vadakkepat

We introduce Bayesian optimization, a technique developed for optimizing time-consuming engineering simulations and for fitting machine learning models on large datasets. Bayesian optimization guides the choice of experiments during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Peter I. Frazier , Jialei Wang

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for optimizing complex non-linear systems. However, its performance degrades in high-dimensional problems with tightly coupled parameters and highly asymmetric objective landscapes, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Aashwin Mishra , Matt Seaberg , Ryan Roussel , Daniel Ratner , Apurva Mehta

Optimization is becoming increasingly common in scientific and engineering domains. Oftentimes, these problems involve various levels of stochasticity or uncertainty in generating proposed solutions. Therefore, optimization in these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-05 Peter D. Tonner , Daniel V. Samarov , A. Gilad Kusne

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

Model selection is an integral problem of model based optimization techniques such as Bayesian optimization (BO). Current approaches often treat model selection as an estimation problem, to be periodically updated with observations coming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Manisha Senadeera , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

The global optimization of a high-dimensional black-box function under black-box constraints is a pervasive task in machine learning, control, and engineering. These problems are challenging since the feasible set is typically non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 David Eriksson , Matthias Poloczek