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BOSH: Bayesian Optimization by Sampling Hierarchically

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Publication date18/07/2020
Number of pages8
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventWorkshop on Real World Experiment Design and Active Learning at ICML 2020 -
Duration: 13/07/202018/07/2020
https://realworldml.github.io/

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WorkshopWorkshop on Real World Experiment Design and Active Learning at ICML 2020
Period13/07/2018/07/20
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Abstract

Deployments of Bayesian Optimization (BO) for functions with stochastic evaluations, such as parameter tuning via cross validation and simulation optimization, typically optimize an average of a fixed set of noisy realizations of the objective function. However, disregarding the true objective function in this manner finds a high-precision optimum of the wrong function. To solve this problem, we propose Bayesian Optimization by Sampling Hierarchically (BOSH), a novel BO routine pairing a hierarchical Gaussian process with an information-theoretic framework to generate a growing pool of realizations as the optimization progresses. We demonstrate that BOSH provides more efficient and higher-precision optimization than standard BO across synthetic benchmarks, simulation optimization, reinforcement learning and hyper-parameter tuning tasks.