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Solving optimal design problems through crowdsourcing faces a dilemma: On one hand, human beings have been shown to be more effective than algorithms at searching for good solutions of certain real-world problems with high-dimensional or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Thurston Sexton , Max Yi Ren

We present a new algorithm ASEBO for optimizing high-dimensional blackbox functions. ASEBO adapts to the geometry of the function and learns optimal sets of sensing directions, which are used to probe it, on-the-fly. It addresses the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Krzysztof Choromanski , Aldo Pacchiano , Jack Parker-Holder , Yunhao Tang

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

We introduce the algorithm Bayesian Optimization (BO) with Fictitious Play (BOFiP) for the optimization of high dimensional black box functions. BOFiP decomposes the original, high dimensional, space into several sub-spaces defined by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 L. Mathesen , G. Pedrielli , R. L. Smith

Path Planning and target searching in a three-dimensional environment is a challenging task in the field of robotics. It is an optimization problem as the path from source to destination has to be optimal. This paper aims to generate a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Devansh Verma , Priyansh Saxena , Ritu Tiwari

Efficient optimisation of black-box problems that comprise both continuous and categorical inputs is important, yet poses significant challenges. We propose a new approach, Continuous and Categorical Bayesian Optimisation (CoCaBO), which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Binxin Ru , Ahsan S. Alvi , Vu Nguyen , Michael A. Osborne , Stephen J Roberts

In this paper, a new sequential surrogate-based optimization (SSBO) algorithm is developed, which aims to improve the global search ability and local search efficiency for the global optimization of expensive black-box models. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Chunlin Gong , Xu Li , Hua Su , Jinlei Guo , Liangxian Gu

Bayesian Optimization algorithm has become a promising approach for nonlinear global optimization problems and many machine learning applications. Over the past few years, improvements and enhancements have been brought forward and they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yuyang Chen , Kaiming Bi , Chih-Hang J. Wu , David Ben-Arieh , Ashesh Sinha

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a global optimization strategy designed to find the minimum of an expensive black-box function, typically defined on a compact subset of $\mathcal{R}^d$, by using a Gaussian process (GP) as a surrogate model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-24 Eero Siivola , Aki Vehtari , Jarno Vanhatalo , Javier González , Michael Riis Andersen

Bayesian optimization and Lipschitz optimization have developed alternative techniques for optimizing black-box functions. They each exploit a different form of prior about the function. In this work, we explore strategies to combine these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Sharan Vaswani , Mark Schmidt

Bayesian optimisation (BO) is a standard approach for sample-efficient global optimisation of expensive black-box functions, yet its scalability to high dimensions remains challenging. Here, we investigate nonlinear dimensionality reduction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Luo Long , Coralia Cartis , Paz Fink Shustin

One of the consequences of network densification is more frequent handovers (HO). HO failures have a direct impact on the quality of service and are undesirable, especially in scenarios with strict latency, reliability, and robustness…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Eloise de Carvalho Rodrigues , Alvaro Valcarce Rial , Giovanni Geraci

Local Bayesian optimization is a promising practical approach to solve the high dimensional black-box function optimization problem. Among them is the approximated gradient class of methods, which implements a strategy similar to gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Zheyi Fan , Wenyu Wang , Szu Hui Ng , Qingpei Hu

Discovering optimal designs through sequential data collection is essential in many real-world applications. While Bayesian Optimization (BO) has achieved remarkable success in this setting, growing attention has recently turned to…

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Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a critical component of machine learning pipelines, significantly affecting model robustness, stability, and generalization. However, HPO is often a time-consuming and computationally intensive task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Ruinan Wang , Ian Nabney , Mohammad Golbabaee

Bayesian Optimization (BO) has been widely applied to optimize expensive black-box functions while retaining sample efficiency. However, scaling BO to high-dimensional spaces remains challenging. Existing literature proposes performing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Quanlin Chen , Yiyu Chen , Jing Huo , Tianyu Ding , Yang Gao , Yuetong Chen

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a well-established method to optimize black-box functions whose direct evaluations are costly. In this paper, we tackle the problem of incorporating expert knowledge into BO, with the goal of further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Daolang Huang , Louis Filstroff , Petrus Mikkola , Runkai Zheng , Samuel Kaski

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

Bayesian optimization (BO) for high-dimensional constrained problems remains a significant challenge due to the curse of dimensionality. We propose Local Constrained Bayesian Optimization (LCBO), a novel framework tailored for such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Jing Jingzhe , Fan Zheyi , Szu Hui Ng , Qingpei Hu

The goal of Multi-task Bayesian Optimization (MBO) is to minimize the number of queries required to accurately optimize a target black-box function, given access to offline evaluations of other auxiliary functions. When offline datasets are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Kourosh Hakhamaneshi , Pieter Abbeel , Vladimir Stojanovic , Aditya Grover