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We present HIghly Parallelisable Pareto Optimisation (HIPPO) -- a batch acquisition function that enables multi-objective Bayesian optimisation methods to efficiently exploit parallel processing resources. Multi-Objective Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Andrei Paleyes , Henry B. Moss , Victor Picheny , Piotr Zulawski , Felix Newman

Bayesian optimization works effectively optimizing parameters in black-box problems. However, this method did not work for high-dimensional parameters in limited trials. Parameters can be efficiently explored by nonlinearly embedding them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shoki Miyagawa , Atsuyoshi Yano , Naoko Sawada , Isamu Ogawa

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

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is an effective framework for aligning large language models with human preferences, but it struggles with complex reasoning tasks. DPO optimizes for the likelihood of generating preferred over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Darsh Kachroo , Adriana Caraeni , Arjun Prasaath Anbazhagan , Brennan Lagasse , Kevin Zhu

Offline model-based optimization (MBO) seeks to discover high-performing designs using only a fixed dataset of past evaluations. Most existing methods rely on learning a surrogate model via regression and implicitly assume that good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shen-Huan Lyu , Rong-Xi Tan , Ke Xue , Yi-Xiao He , Yu Huang , Qingfu Zhang , Chao Qian

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

Compared to classical deep neural networks its binarized versions can be useful for applications on resource-limited devices due to their reduction in memory consumption and computational demands. In this work we study deep neural networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Jannis Kurtz , Bubacarr Bah

The PC algorithm is a popular method for learning the structure of Gaussian Bayesian networks. It carries out statistical tests to determine absent edges in the network. It is hence governed by two parameters: (i) The type of test, and (ii)…

Learning robot controllers by minimizing a black-box objective cost using Bayesian optimization (BO) can be time-consuming and challenging. It is very often the case that some roll-outs result in failure behaviors, causing premature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Alonso Marco , Dominik Baumann , Philipp Hennig , Sebastian Trimpe

Ensuring high accuracy and efficiency of predictive models is paramount in the aerospace industry, particularly in the context of multidisciplinary design and optimization processes. These processes often require numerous evaluations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 James M. Shihua , Paul Saves , Rhea P. Liem , Joseph Morlier

Machine learning has achieved remarkable success over the past couple of decades, often attributed to a combination of algorithmic innovations and the availability of high-quality data available at scale. However, a third critical component…

The core challenge of high-dimensional and expensive black-box optimization (BBO) is how to obtain better performance faster with little function evaluation cost. The essence of the problem is how to design an efficient optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xiaobin Li , Kai Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Handing Wang , Jing Liu

The optimization of high-dimensional black-box functions is a challenging problem. When a low-dimensional linear embedding structure can be assumed, existing Bayesian optimization (BO) methods often transform the original problem into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-03 Shuhei A. Horiguchi , Tomoharu Iwata , Taku Tsuzuki , Yosuke Ozawa

When learning to ride a bike, a child falls down a number of times before achieving the first success. As falling down usually has only mild consequences, it can be seen as a tolerable failure in exchange for a faster learning process, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Alonso Marco , Alexander von Rohr , Dominik Baumann , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Sebastian Trimpe

Expensive multi-objective optimization problems can be found in many real-world applications, where their objective function evaluations involve expensive computations or physical experiments. It is desirable to obtain an approximate Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a method for globally optimizing black-box functions. While BO has been successfully applied to many scenarios, developing effective BO algorithms that scale to functions with high-dimensional domains is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yihang Shen , Carl Kingsford

Active search formalizes a specialized active learning setting where the goal is to collect members of a rare, valuable class. The state-of-the-art algorithm approximates the optimal Bayesian policy in a budget-aware manner, and has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Quan Nguyen , Anindya Sarkar , Roman Garnett

Bayesian optimization is an effective method to efficiently optimize unknown objective functions with high evaluation costs. Traditional Bayesian optimization algorithms select one point per iteration for single objective function, whereas…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-08 Takashi Wada , Hideitsu Hino

Frequently, acquiring training data has an associated cost. We consider the situation where the learner may purchase data during training, subject TO a budget. IN particular, we examine the CASE WHERE each feature label has an associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Daniel J. Lizotte , Omid Madani , Russell Greiner

A DeepCAPA (Deep Learning for Continuous Aperture Array (CAPA)) framework is proposed to learn beamforming in CAPA systems. The beamforming optimization problem is firstly formulated, and it is mathematically proved that the optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Jia Guo , Yuanwei Liu , Hyundong Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan