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In the pursuit of efficient optimization of expensive-to-evaluate systems, this paper investigates a novel approach to Bayesian multi-objective and multi-fidelity (MOMF) optimization. Traditional optimization methods, while effective, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Faran Irshad , Stefan Karsch , Andreas Döpp

In system analysis and design optimization, multiple computational models are typically available to represent a given physical system. These models can be broadly classified as high-fidelity models, which provide highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ruda Zhang , Negin Alemazkoor

Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization (MFBO) is a promising framework to speed up materials and molecular discovery as sources of information of different accuracies are at hand at increasing cost. Despite its potential use in chemical…

Multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization (MFBO) accelerates the search for the global optimum of black-box functions by integrating inexpensive, low-fidelity approximations. The central task of an MFBO policy is to balance the cost-efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Md Abir Hossen , Mohammad Ali Javidian , Vignesh Narayanan , Jason M. O'Kane , Pooyan Jamshidi

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular framework to optimize black-box functions. In many applications, the objective function can be evaluated at multiple fidelities to enable a trade-off between the cost and accuracy. To reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Shibo Li , Wei Xing , Mike Kirby , Shandian Zhe

In many situations across computational science and engineering, multiple computational models are available that describe a system of interest. These different models have varying evaluation costs and varying fidelities. Typically, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Benjamin Peherstorfer , Karen Willcox , Max Gunzburger

Bayesian optimization (BO) is increasingly employed in critical applications such as materials design and drug discovery. An increasingly popular strategy in BO is to forgo the sole reliance on high-fidelity data and instead use an ensemble…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-22 Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Mehdi Shishehbor , Amin Yousefpour , Ramin Bostanabad

We study the novel problem of blackbox optimization of multiple objectives via multi-fidelity function evaluations that vary in the amount of resources consumed and their accuracy. The overall goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Multi-fidelity models provide a framework for integrating computational models of varying complexity, allowing for accurate predictions while optimizing computational resources. These models are especially beneficial when acquiring…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-14 M. Giselle Fernández-Godino

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful framework for optimizing black-box, expensive-to-evaluate functions. Over the past decade, many algorithms have been proposed to integrate cheaper, lower-fidelity approximations of the objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Petrus Mikkola , Julien Martinelli , Louis Filstroff , Samuel Kaski

Aircraft design relies heavily on solving challenging and computationally expensive Multidisciplinary Design Optimization problems. In this context, there has been growing interest in multi-fidelity models for Bayesian optimization to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Oihan Cordelier , Youssef Diouane , Nathalie Bartoli , Eric Laurendeau

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

Bandit methods for black-box optimisation, such as Bayesian optimisation, are used in a variety of applications including hyper-parameter tuning and experiment design. Recently, \emph{multi-fidelity} methods have garnered considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-21 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Gautam Dasarathy , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

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

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sequential optimization strategy that is increasingly employed in a wide range of areas including materials design. In real world applications, acquiring high-fidelity (HF) data through physical experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Ramin Bostanabad

In many applications, ranging from logistics to engineering, a designer is faced with a sequence of optimization tasks for which the objectives are in the form of black-box functions that are costly to evaluate. Furthermore, higher-fidelity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yunchuan Zhang , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone

Offline optimization aims to maximize a black-box objective function with a static dataset and has wide applications. In addition to the objective function being black-box and expensive to evaluate, numerous complex real-world problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ke Xue , Rong-Xi Tan , Xiaobin Huang , Chao Qian

Resided at the intersection of multi-fidelity optimization (MFO) and Bayesian optimization (BO), MF BO has found a niche in solving expensive engineering design optimization problems, thanks to its advantages in incorporating physical and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Bach Do , Ruda Zhang

In the context of optimization approaches to engineering applications, time-consuming simulations are often utilized which can be configured to deliver solutions for various levels of accuracy, commonly referred to as different fidelity…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Sander van Rijn , Sebastian Schmitt , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

This work introduces a novel blackbox optimization algorithm for computationally expensive constrained multi-fidelity problems. When applying a direct search method to such problems, the scarcity of feasible points may lead to numerous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Stéphane Alarie , Charles Audet , Miguel Diago , Sébastien Le Digabel , Xavier Lebeuf
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