arXiv Machine Learning By Herilalaina Rakotoarison, Steven Adriaensen, Tom Viering, Carl Hvarfner, Samuel M\"uller, Frank Hutter, Eytan Bakshy

$\alpha$-PFN: Fast Entropy Search via In-Context Learning

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arXiv:2606. 07134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information-theoretic acquisition functions such as Entropy Search (ES) offer a principled exploration-exploitation framework for Bayesian optimization (BO).

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