arXiv Machine Learning

Modernizing HEBO: a robust Bayesian optimization baseline for practical heteroskedastic and non-stationary problems

arXiv:2607. 10669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization is increasingly used to guide data-efficient experimentation in chemistry, materials science, and related laboratory settings, but its practical performance depends strongly on how well surrogate-model assumptions match the geometry and noise structure of the underlying objective.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3

Frugal Bayesian Optimization: Scalable Surrogates for Data- and Resource-Limited Discovery

arXiv:2607. 29225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian Optimization (BO) is widely adopted for data-efficient optimization in scientific and engineering applications, yet its computational cost is rarely evaluated alongside optimization performance.

By Panagiotis Krokidas, Christoforos Rekatsinas, Vassilis Sioros, Grigorios M. Chatziathanasiou, Efi-Maria Papia, George Giannakopoulos
arXiv AI
Aug 6

Out-Of-The-Loop Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2608. 04113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box optimization is a ubiquitous problem in science and engineering, often dealing with expensive objective functions with cheaper lower-fidelity proxies available.

By Gustavo Sutter, Hao Wang, Luis Ricardez-Sandoval, Pascal Poupart, Agustinus Kristiadi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Bayesian Optimization for General Reaction Conditions

arXiv:2502. 18966v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: General chemical reaction conditions that achieve consistently high performance across multiple substrates are important for practical applications such as library synthesis and high-throughput experimentation.

By Stefan P. Schmid, Ella Miray Rajaonson, Cher Tian Ser, Mohammad Haddadnia, Shi Xuan Leong, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik, Agustinus Kristiadi, Kjell Jorner, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Local Preferential Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2606. 02351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular and effective approach for tuning expensive, noisy experiments, but requires the formulation of an explicit objective function.

By Johanna Menn, Miriam Kober, Paul Brunzema, David Stenger, Sebastian Trimpe
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

Maximally Robust Satisficing Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2607. 13652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many design tasks can be cast as black-box function optimization, enabling use of Bayesian optimization to find an ideal design with minimal number of trials.

By Samuli Kinnunen, Petrus Mikkola, Antti Niskanen, Arto Klami
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Optimization of time-consuming experimental conditions using pseudo-experimental data guided by adaptive polynomial regression

arXiv:2607. 22238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is an optimization method that sequentially proposes the next candidate explainable variables for optimizing target variables by balancing exploration and exploitation.

By Hirotaka Sugawara, Yujin Taguchi, Kei Minagawa, Yusuke Hiki, Takashi Morikura, Akira Funahashi