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Grey-Box Bayesian Optimization: Improving Performance by Looking Inside the Black-Box

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ToscanoPalmerin_cornellgrad_0058F_11869.pdf (2.7 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/3f24-n006
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70478
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Author
Toscano Palmerin, Saul
Abstract

Non-convex time-consuming objectives are often optimized using “black-box” optimization. These approaches assume very little about the objective. While broadly applicable, these approaches typically require more evaluations than methods exploiting more problem structure. In particular, often, we can acquire information about the objective function in ways other than direct evaluation, which is less time-consuming than evaluating the objective directly. This allows us to develop novel Bayesian optimization algorithms that outperform methods that rely only objective function evaluations. In this thesis, we consider three problems: optimization of sum and integrals of expensive-to-evaluate integrands; optimizing hyperparameters for iteratively trained supervised learning machine learning algorithms; and optimizing non-convex functions with a new efficient multistart stochastic gradient descent algorithm.

Description
184 pages
Date Issued
2020-05
Keywords
Bayesian optimization
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black-box optimization
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Gaussian process
Committee Chair
Frazier, Peter
Committee Member
Henderson, Shane
Bindel, David
Degree Discipline
Operations Research and Information Engineering
Degree Name
Ph. D., Operations Research and Information Engineering
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13254527

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