Summary of Towards Safe Bayesian Optimization with Wiener Kernel Regression, by Oleksii Molodchyk et al.
Towards safe Bayesian optimization with Wiener kernel regression
by Oleksii Molodchyk, Johannes Teutsch, Timm Faulwasser
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a novel approach to Bayesian Optimization (BO) that tightens probabilistic error bounds for Gaussian Process surrogates and Gaussian measurement noise. BO is a data-driven strategy for minimizing or maximizing black-box functions, but its performance crucially relies on these error bounds in the presence of safety constraints. The authors propose a new error bound based on Wiener kernel regression and prove it’s tighter than previous bounds, leading to enlarged safety regions. This improvement is demonstrated through a numerical example. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making a computer algorithm called Bayesian Optimization better at finding the best solution while also making sure it doesn’t do anything bad by accident. The authors are trying to figure out how to make the algorithm more accurate when it’s not totally sure what will happen. They came up with a new way of doing this that works really well, and they tested it on some examples. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Regression
