JAREX is a Bayesian active‑learning acquisition function designed for multi‑objective process characterization in pharmaceutical manufacturing. It treats characterization as a joint boundary‑learning problem, adaptively selecting experiments to delineate the joint pass region where multiple quality thresholds are simultaneously met. Benchmarks show that JAREX outperforms factorial design of experiments, space‑filling designs, and greedy strategies, achieving more accurate and sample‑efficient boundary recovery, and halving the number of experiments needed for batched runs while maintaining high accuracy.
By Xinyang Li, Kevin Stone, Ajit Vikram
Optimizing industrial process flowsheets is often computationally prohibitive due to the high cost of rigorous simulations and the curse of dimensionality inherent in complex design spaces. To address...
arXiv:2609.17440v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Optimizing industrial process flowsheets is often computationally prohibitive due to the high cost of rigorous simulations and the curse of dimensional...
By Niki Triantafyllou, Andrea Bernardi, Maria M. Papathanasiou
This work presents an extension to Pareto Front Guided Sampling (PFGS), a Human-in-the-Loop (HitL) Bayesian Optimization (BO) framework in which Gaussian process (GP) surrogate-derived quantities are reformulated as objectives of a multi-objective optimization problem, and the resulting Pareto front is exposed to a domain expert for interactive candidate selection rather than returning a single automated recommendation. The framework is extended in two directions: constrained optimization is addressed by incorporating the posterior probability of satisfying output specification limits as an explicit Pareto objective, computed analytically from the GP posterior distribution; robust optimization is addressed by a Monte Carlo sampling strategy that estimates expected lower-confidence performance over a user-defined variability of input perturbations, capturing performance degradation under likely implementation deviations.
arXiv:2508.10970v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Bioprocesses are central to modern biotechnology, enabling sustainable production of pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, cosmetics, and foo...
By Adrian Martens, Mathias Neufang, Alessandro Butt\'e, Moritz von Stosch, Antonio del Rio Chanona, Laura Marie Helleckes
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:2606. 19230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents an extension to Pareto Front Guided Sampling (PFGS), a Human-in-the-Loop (HitL) Bayesian Optimization (BO) framework in which Gaussian process (GP) surrogate-derived quantities are reformulated as objectives of a multi-objective optimization problem, and the resulting Pareto front is exposed to a domain expert for interactive candidate selection rather than returning a single automated recommendation.
By Samuel Stricker, Claus Wirnsperger, Alessandro Butt\'e, Laura Helleckes, Gonzalo Guill\'en Gos\'albez, Antonio del Rio Chanona, Mehmet Mercang\"oz
arXiv:2607. 23404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-driving laboratories increasingly rely on multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization (MFBO) to balance cheap, approximate evaluations against scarce, expensive ones, with a predictive surrogate at its core.
By Jaewook Lee, Ethan Errington, Christian D. Lorenz, Miao Guo
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:2406. 03616v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Novelty search (NS) aims to uncover diverse system behaviors through simulation or experiment without requiring a pre-specified scalar objective.
By Wei-Ting Tang, Ankush Chakrabarty, Joel A. Paulson
arXiv:2607. 23448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expensive constrained optimization problems in real-world industry design often involve constraint thresholds that are difficult to determine in advance.
By Jin Wang, Xi Lin, Handing Wang
arXiv:2607. 12488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular optimization in drug discovery, materials design, and catalysis requires searching vast chemical spaces under tight evaluation budgets, since high-fidelity oracles and experimental measurements are costly.
By Sarina Kopf, Cristina Nevado, Philippe Schwaller