Summary of Diffusion-bbo: Diffusion-based Inverse Modeling For Online Black-box Optimization, by Dongxia Wu et al.
Diffusion-BBO: Diffusion-Based Inverse Modeling for Online Black-Box Optimization
by Dongxia Wu, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Ruijia Niu, Yi-An Ma, Rose Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A new framework, called Diffusion-BBO, is proposed for online black-box optimization (BBO), which learns a surrogate model using conditional diffusion models. This approach leverages uncertainty-aware exploration to actively query new data and improve sample efficiency. The framework achieves near-optimal solutions for BBO and outperforms existing baselines across six scientific discovery tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Online black-box optimization aims to find the best solution by asking questions about an unknown objective function. Researchers have been trying to learn a model that helps them make better decisions. A new approach uses something called conditional diffusion models, which are very good at learning patterns in data. The idea is to use this model to suggest where to look next for more information. This approach can help find the best solution faster and with less effort. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Objective function * Optimization
