Using Distance Correlation for Efficient Bayesian Optimization

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Main Author: Kanazawa, Takuya
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Published: 2021
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contents The need to collect data via expensive measurements of black-box functions is prevalent across science, engineering and medicine. As an example, hyperparameter tuning of a large AI model is critical to its predictive performance but is generally time-consuming and unwieldy. Bayesian optimization (BO) is a collection of methods that aim to address this issue by means of Bayesian statistical inference. In this work, we put forward a BO scheme named BDC, which integrates BO with a statistical measure of association of two random variables called Distance Correlation. BDC balances exploration and exploitation automatically, and requires no manual hyperparameter tuning. We evaluate BDC on a range of benchmark tests and observe that it performs on per with popular BO methods such as the expected improvement and max-value entropy search. We also apply BDC to optimization of sequential integral observations of an unknown terrain and confirm its utility.
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Kanazawa, Takuya
Machine Learning
The need to collect data via expensive measurements of black-box functions is prevalent across science, engineering and medicine. As an example, hyperparameter tuning of a large AI model is critical to its predictive performance but is generally time-consuming and unwieldy. Bayesian optimization (BO) is a collection of methods that aim to address this issue by means of Bayesian statistical inference. In this work, we put forward a BO scheme named BDC, which integrates BO with a statistical measure of association of two random variables called Distance Correlation. BDC balances exploration and exploitation automatically, and requires no manual hyperparameter tuning. We evaluate BDC on a range of benchmark tests and observe that it performs on per with popular BO methods such as the expected improvement and max-value entropy search. We also apply BDC to optimization of sequential integral observations of an unknown terrain and confirm its utility.
title Using Distance Correlation for Efficient Bayesian Optimization
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08993