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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

NUBO, short for Newcastle University Bayesian Optimisation, is a Bayesian optimization framework for the optimization of expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions, such as physical experiments and computer simulators. Bayesian optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Mike Diessner , Kevin J. Wilson , Richard D. Whalley

Bayesian optimization is efficient even with a small amount of data and is used in engineering and in science, including biology and chemistry. In Bayesian optimization, a parameterized model with an uncertainty is fitted to explain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yujin Taguchi , Yusuke Shibuya , Yusuke Hiki , Takashi Morikura , Takahiro G. Yamada , Akira Funahashi

Optimizing an expensive-to-query function is a common task in science and engineering, where it is beneficial to keep the number of queries to a minimum. A popular strategy is Bayesian optimization (BO), which leverages probabilistic models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Willie Neiswanger , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider , Eric Xing

Bayesian Optimisation (BO) refers to a suite of techniques for global optimisation of expensive black box functions, which use introspective Bayesian models of the function to efficiently search for the optimum. While BO has been applied…

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful technology for optimizing noisy expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions, with a broad range of real-world applications in science, engineering, economics, manufacturing, and beyond. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Joel A. Paulson , Calvin Tsay

Bayesian optimization is a popular black-box optimization method for parameter learning in control and robotics. It typically requires an objective function that reflects the user's optimization goal. However, in practical applications,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Johanna Menn , David Stenger , Sebastian Trimpe

The adoption of high-fidelity models for many-query optimization problems is majorly limited by the significant computational cost required for their evaluation at every query. Multifidelity Bayesian methods (MFBO) allow to include costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Francesco Di Fiore , Laura Mainini

Information-theoretic Bayesian optimisation techniques have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in tackling important global optimisation problems. However, current information-theoretic approaches require many approximations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-07 Binxin Ru , Mark McLeod , Diego Granziol , Michael A. Osborne

Python has become the programming language of choice for research and industry projects related to data science, machine learning, and deep learning. Since optimization is an inherent part of these research fields, more optimization related…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Julian Blank , Kalyanmoy Deb

Both computational and experimental material discovery bring forth the challenge of exploring multidimensional and often non-differentiable parameter spaces, such as phase diagrams of Hamiltonians with multiple interactions, composition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Arpan Biswas , Sai Mani Prudhvi Valleti , Rama Vasudevan , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

In applications such as molecule design or drug discovery, it is desirable to have an algorithm which recommends new candidate molecules based on the results of past tests. These molecules first need to be synthesized and then tested for…

Limbo is an open-source C++11 library for Bayesian optimization which is designed to be both highly flexible and very fast. It can be used to optimize functions for which the gradient is unknown, evaluations are expensive, and runtime cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Antoine Cully , Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis , Federico Allocati , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Multi fidelity Bayesian optimization (MFBO) leverages experimental and or computational data of varying quality and resource cost to optimize towards desired maxima cost effectively. This approach is particularly attractive for chemical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Edmund Judge , Mohammed Azzouzi , Austin M. Mroz , Antonio del Rio Chanona , Kim E. Jelfs

We present PyQUBO, an open-source, Python library for constructing quadratic unconstrained binary optimizations (QUBOs) from the objective functions and the constraints of optimization problems. PyQUBO enables users to prepare QUBOs or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Mashiyat Zaman , Kotaro Tanahashi , Shu Tanaka

Bayesian optimization is a powerful tool for solving real-world optimization tasks under tight evaluation budgets, making it well-suited for applications involving costly simulations or experiments. However, many of these tasks are also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Paolo Ascia , Elena Raponi , Thomas Bäck , Fabian Duddeck

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an approach to globally optimizing black-box objective functions that are expensive to evaluate. BO-powered experimental design has found wide application in materials science, chemistry, experimental physics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Mimi Zhang , Andrew Parnell , Dermot Brabazon , Alessio Benavoli

In high-dimensional settings, Bayesian optimization (BO) can be expensive and infeasible. The random embedding Bayesian optimization algorithm is commonly used to address high-dimensional BO challenges. However, this method relies on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Jiaming Lu , Rong J. B. Zhu

Hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search can become prohibitively expensive for regular black-box Bayesian optimization because the training and evaluation of a single model can easily take several hours. To overcome this,…

Most research in Bayesian optimization (BO) has focused on \emph{direct feedback} scenarios, where one has access to exact values of some expensive-to-evaluate objective. This direction has been mainly driven by the use of BO in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Eero Siivola , Akash Kumar Dhaka , Michael Riis Andersen , Javier Gonzalez , Pablo Garcia Moreno , Aki Vehtari
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