论文标题
无可能贝叶斯优化的一般配方
A General Recipe for Likelihood-free Bayesian Optimization
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论文摘要
采集函数是贝叶斯优化（BO）中的关键组成部分，通常可以写入替代模型下效用函数的期望。但是，为了确保采集功能是可以优化的，必须对替代模型和实用程序功能进行限制。为了将BO扩展到更广泛的模型和实用程序，我们提出了无可能的BO（LFBO），这是一种基于无可能推断的方法。 LFBO直接对采集函数进行建模，而无需单独使用概率替代模型进行推断。我们表明，可以将计算LFBO中的采集函数降低为优化加权分类问题，而权重对应于所选择的效用。通过为预期改进选择实用程序功能，LFBO在几个现实世界优化问题上都优于各种最新的黑盒优化方法。 LFBO还可以有效利用目标函数的复合结构，从而进一步改善了其遗憾。
The acquisition function, a critical component in Bayesian optimization (BO), can often be written as the expectation of a utility function under a surrogate model. However, to ensure that acquisition functions are tractable to optimize, restrictions must be placed on the surrogate model and utility function. To extend BO to a broader class of models and utilities, we propose likelihood-free BO (LFBO), an approach based on likelihood-free inference. LFBO directly models the acquisition function without having to separately perform inference with a probabilistic surrogate model. We show that computing the acquisition function in LFBO can be reduced to optimizing a weighted classification problem, where the weights correspond to the utility being chosen. By choosing the utility function for expected improvement (EI), LFBO outperforms various state-of-the-art black-box optimization methods on several real-world optimization problems. LFBO can also effectively leverage composite structures of the objective function, which further improves its regret by several orders of magnitude.
