A tutorial on Bayesian optimization

PI Frazier - arxiv preprint arxiv:1807.02811, 2018 - arxiv.org
Bayesian optimization is an approach to optimizing objective functions that take a long time
(minutes or hours) to evaluate. It is best-suited for optimization over continuous domains of …

Review on ranking and selection: A new perspective

LJ Hong, W Fan, J Luo - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we briefly review the development of ranking and selection (R&S) in the past
70 years, especially the theoretical achievements and practical applications in the past 20 …

Bayesian optimization

PI Frazier - Recent advances in optimization and modeling …, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
Bayesian optimization is an approach to optimizing objective functions that take a long time
(minutes or hours) to evaluate. It is best suited for optimization over continuous domains of …

Simple bayesian algorithms for best arm identification

D Russo - Conference on Learning Theory, 2016 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper considers the optimal adaptive allocation of measurement effort for identifying the
best among a finite set of options or designs. An experimenter sequentially chooses designs …

Customer acquisition via display advertising using multi-armed bandit experiments

EM Schwartz, ET Bradlow, PS Fader - Marketing Science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
Firms using online advertising regularly run experiments with multiple versions of their ads
since they are uncertain about which ones are most effective. During a campaign, firms try to …

[LLIBRE][B] Stochastic simulation optimization: an optimal computing budget allocation

CH Chen, LH Lee - 2011 - books.google.com
With the advance of new computing technology, simulation is becoming very popular for
designing large, complex and stochastic engineering systems, since closed-form analytical …

Monte Carlo sampling-based methods for stochastic optimization

T Homem-de-Mello, G Bayraksan - Surveys in Operations Research and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper surveys the use of Monte Carlo sampling-based methods for stochastic
optimization problems. Such methods are required when—as it often happens in practice …

A knowledge-gradient policy for sequential information collection

PI Frazier, WB Powell, S Dayanik - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2008 - SIAM
In a sequential Bayesian ranking and selection problem with independent normal
populations and common known variance, we study a previously introduced measurement …

The knowledge-gradient policy for correlated normal beliefs

P Frazier, W Powell, S Dayanik - INFORMS journal on …, 2009 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a Bayesian ranking and selection problem with independent normal rewards
and a correlated multivariate normal belief on the mean values of these rewards. Because …

Simulation optimization: a review, new developments, and applications

MC Fu, FW Glover, J April - Proceedings of the Winter …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We provide a descriptive review of the main approaches for carrying out simulation
optimization, and sample some recent algorithmic and theoretical developments in …