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Bayesian optimization (BO) has for sequential optimization of expensive black-box functions demonstrated practicality and effectiveness in many real-world settings. Meta-Bayesian optimization (meta-BO) focuses on improving the sample…

This paper describes a general-purpose extension of max-value entropy search, a popular approach for Bayesian Optimisation (BO). A novel approximation is proposed for the information gain -- an information-theoretic quantity central to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Henry B. Moss , David S. Leslie , Javier Gonzalez , Paul Rayson

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an efficient framework for optimizing expensive black-box functions. However, it is typically formulated as learning an end-to-end mapping from inputs to scalar objectives, thereby discarding the potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenbin Wang , Colin N. Jones

Black-box optimization (BBO) involves functions that are unknown, inexact and/or expensive-to-evaluate. Existing BBO algorithms face several challenges, including high computational cost from extensive evaluations, difficulty in handling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Zixuan Zhang , Xiaowei Song , Jiaming Li , Yujiao Zeng , Yaling Nie , Min Zhu , Dongyun Lu , Yibo Zhang , Xin Xiao , Jie Li

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a sample-efficient global optimization algorithm for black-box functions which are expensive to evaluate. Existing literature on model based optimization in conditional parameter spaces are usually built on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-08 Xingchen Ma , Matthew B. Blaschko

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a common framework for optimizing black-box functions, yet most existing methods assume static query costs and rely on myopic acquisition strategies. We introduce LookaHES, a nonmyopic BO framework designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sang T. Truong , Duc Q. Nguyen , Willie Neiswanger , Ryan-Rhys Griffiths , Stefano Ermon , Nick Haber , Sanmi Koyejo

Bayesian optimization is a broadly applied methodology to optimize the expensive black-box function. Despite its success, it still faces the challenge from the high-dimensional search space. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jingfan Chen , Guanghui Zhu , Chunfeng Yuan , Yihua Huang

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

Bayesian optimization (BO) has proven to be an effective paradigm for the global optimization of expensive-to-sample systems. One of the main advantages of BO is its use of Gaussian processes (GPs) to characterize model uncertainty which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-30 Leonardo D. González , Victor M. Zavala

A multi-modal multi-objective optimization problem is a special kind of multi-objective optimization problem with multiple Pareto subsets. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-modal multi-objective optimization algorithm based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi

Bayesian optimization provides an effective method to optimize expensive-to-evaluate black box functions. It has been widely applied to problems in many fields, including notably in computer science, e.g. in machine learning to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mike Diessner , Joseph O'Connor , Andrew Wynn , Sylvain Laizet , Yu Guan , Kevin Wilson , Richard D. Whalley

Bayesian optimization is widely used for optimizing expensive black box functions, but most existing approaches focus on scalar responses. In many scientific and engineering settings the response is functional, varying smoothly over an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Pouya Ahadi , Reza Marzban , Ali Adibi , Kamran Paynabar

Bayesian optimization is a powerful technique for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions, consisting of two main components: a surrogate model and an acquisition function. In recent years, myopic acquisition functions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hui Chen , Xuhui Fan , Zhangkai Wu , Longbing Cao

Traditional methods for black box optimization require a considerable number of evaluations which can be time consuming, unpractical, and often unfeasible for many engineering applications that rely on accurate representations and expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Francesco Grassi , Giorgio Manganini , Michele Garraffa , Laura Mainini

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful paradigm for optimizing expensive black-box functions. Traditional BO methods typically rely on separate hand-crafted acquisition functions and surrogate models for the underlying function, and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Fengxue Zhang , Yuxin Chen

Bayesian optimization (BO ) is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. While high-dimensional problems can be particularly challenging, due to the multitude of parameter choices and the potentially high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Erik Hellsten , Carl Hvarfner , Leonard Papenmeier , Luigi Nardi

We propose a nested weighted Tchebycheff Multi-objective Bayesian optimization framework where we build a regression model selection procedure from an ensemble of models, towards better estimation of the uncertain parameters of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Arpan Biswas , Claudio Fuentes , Christopher Hoyle

This paper gives a concise overview of evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimization. A substantial number of evolutionary computation methods for multiobjective problem solving has been proposed so far, and an attempt of unifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Arnaud Liefooghe , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi

The evolution of cellular networks is driven by the dream of ubiquitous wireless connectivity: Any data service is instantly accessible everywhere. With each generation of cellular networks, we have moved closer to this wireless dream;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Emil Björnson , Eduard Jorswieck , Mérouane Debbah , Björn Ottersten

This paper presents novel mixed-type Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithms to accelerate the optimization of a target objective function by exploiting correlated auxiliary information of binary type that can be more cheaply obtained, such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-19 Yehong Zhang , Zhongxiang Dai , Kian Hsiang Low