Tree-structured parzen estimator: Understanding its algorithm components and their roles for better empirical performance

S Watanabe - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.11127, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in many domains require more and more complicated experiment design.
Such complicated experiments often have many parameters, which necessitate parameter …

Bayesian optimisation against climate change: Applications and benchmarks

SP Hellan, CG Lucas, NH Goddard - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.04343, 2023 - arxiv.org
Bayesian optimisation is a powerful method for optimising black-box functions, popular in
settings where the true function is expensive to evaluate and no gradient information is …

Variational Search Distributions

DM Steinberg, R Oliveira, CS Ong… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We develop variational search distributions (VSD), a method for finding discrete,
combinatorial designs of a rare desired class in a batch sequential manner with a fixed …

MALIBO: Meta-learning for likelihood-free Bayesian optimization

J Pan, S Falkner, F Berkenkamp… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular method to optimize costly black-box functions. While
traditional BO optimizes each new target task from scratch, meta-learning has emerged as a …

Bayesian Optimization by Kernel Regression and Density-based Exploration

T Zhu, H Zhou, K **, X Xu, Q Yuan, L Ji - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.06178, 2025 - arxiv.org
Bayesian optimization is highly effective for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box
functions, but it faces significant computational challenges due to the high computational …

Density ratio estimation-based bayesian optimization with semi-supervised learning

J Kim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.15612, 2023 - arxiv.org
Bayesian optimization has attracted huge attention from diverse research areas in science
and engineering, since it is capable of efficiently finding a global optimum of an expensive-to …

A Sequential Optimisation Framework for Adaptive Model Predictive Control in Robotics

R Guzmán Apaza - 2023 - alicia.concytec.gob.pe
State-of-the-art control and robotics challenges have long been tackled using model-based
control methods like model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL). These …