Sub-linear Regret Bounds for Bayesian Optimisation in Unknown Search Spaces

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Auteurs principaux: Tran-The, Hung, Gupta, Sunil, Rana, Santu, Ha, Huong, Venkatesh, Svetha
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author Tran-The, Hung
Gupta, Sunil
Rana, Santu
Ha, Huong
Venkatesh, Svetha
author_facet Tran-The, Hung
Gupta, Sunil
Rana, Santu
Ha, Huong
Venkatesh, Svetha
contents Bayesian optimisation is a popular method for efficient optimisation of expensive black-box functions. Traditionally, BO assumes that the search space is known. However, in many problems, this assumption does not hold. To this end, we propose a novel BO algorithm which expands (and shifts) the search space over iterations based on controlling the expansion rate thought a hyperharmonic series. Further, we propose another variant of our algorithm that scales to high dimensions. We show theoretically that for both our algorithms, the cumulative regret grows at sub-linear rates. Our experiments with synthetic and real-world optimisation tasks demonstrate the superiority of our algorithms over the current state-of-the-art methods for Bayesian optimisation in unknown search space.
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spellingShingle Sub-linear Regret Bounds for Bayesian Optimisation in Unknown Search Spaces
Tran-The, Hung
Gupta, Sunil
Rana, Santu
Ha, Huong
Venkatesh, Svetha
Machine Learning
Information Theory
Bayesian optimisation is a popular method for efficient optimisation of expensive black-box functions. Traditionally, BO assumes that the search space is known. However, in many problems, this assumption does not hold. To this end, we propose a novel BO algorithm which expands (and shifts) the search space over iterations based on controlling the expansion rate thought a hyperharmonic series. Further, we propose another variant of our algorithm that scales to high dimensions. We show theoretically that for both our algorithms, the cumulative regret grows at sub-linear rates. Our experiments with synthetic and real-world optimisation tasks demonstrate the superiority of our algorithms over the current state-of-the-art methods for Bayesian optimisation in unknown search space.
title Sub-linear Regret Bounds for Bayesian Optimisation in Unknown Search Spaces
topic Machine Learning
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02539