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Practical Bayesian Optimization for Model Fitting with Bayesian Adaptive Direct Search

NeurIPS 2017 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Bayesian optimization · approach: Acquisition function design · 157 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use BADS instead of other tested optimizersBADS · BBOB09 noiselessfraction of successful runsMixed
Use BADS instead of other tested optimizersBADS · BBOB09 noisy, heteroskedasticfraction of successful runsHelped
Use BADS instead of other tested optimizersBADS · CCN17 real model-fitting problemsoptimization performanceHelped
Use hybrid local BO with MADS polling instead of vanilla BOCCN17 real model-fitting problems · CCN17optimization performanceHelped
Replace the default RQ kernel and LCB acquisition combination with alternative kernel/acquisition choices (ablation)BADS · BBOB09 noiselessfraction of successful runsHurt
Set the number of search steps to 1 (ablation)BADS · BBOB09 noiselessfraction of successful runsHurt
Fix the search covariance matrix to the length-scale matrix (ablation)BADS · BBOB09 noiselessfraction of successful runsHurt
Fix the search covariance matrix to the weighted covariance matrix (ablation)BADS · BBOB09 noiselessfraction of successful runsHurt

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