Optimistic Games for Combinatorial Bayesian Optimization with Application to Protein Design

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Autores principales: Bal, Melis Ilayda, Sessa, Pier Giuseppe, Mutny, Mojmir, Krause, Andreas
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Publicado: 2024
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author Bal, Melis Ilayda
Sessa, Pier Giuseppe
Mutny, Mojmir
Krause, Andreas
author_facet Bal, Melis Ilayda
Sessa, Pier Giuseppe
Mutny, Mojmir
Krause, Andreas
contents Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful framework to optimize black-box expensive-to-evaluate functions via sequential interactions. In several important problems (e.g. drug discovery, circuit design, neural architecture search, etc.), though, such functions are defined over large $\textit{combinatorial and unstructured}$ spaces. This makes existing BO algorithms not feasible due to the intractable maximization of the acquisition function over these domains. To address this issue, we propose $\textbf{GameOpt}$, a novel game-theoretical approach to combinatorial BO. $\textbf{GameOpt}$ establishes a cooperative game between the different optimization variables, and selects points that are game $\textit{equilibria}$ of an upper confidence bound acquisition function. These are stable configurations from which no variable has an incentive to deviate$-$ analog to local optima in continuous domains. Crucially, this allows us to efficiently break down the complexity of the combinatorial domain into individual decision sets, making $\textbf{GameOpt}$ scalable to large combinatorial spaces. We demonstrate the application of $\textbf{GameOpt}$ to the challenging $\textit{protein design}$ problem and validate its performance on four real-world protein datasets. Each protein can take up to $20^{X}$ possible configurations, where $X$ is the length of a protein, making standard BO methods infeasible. Instead, our approach iteratively selects informative protein configurations and very quickly discovers highly active protein variants compared to other baselines.
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spellingShingle Optimistic Games for Combinatorial Bayesian Optimization with Application to Protein Design
Bal, Melis Ilayda
Sessa, Pier Giuseppe
Mutny, Mojmir
Krause, Andreas
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Biomolecules
Quantitative Methods
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful framework to optimize black-box expensive-to-evaluate functions via sequential interactions. In several important problems (e.g. drug discovery, circuit design, neural architecture search, etc.), though, such functions are defined over large $\textit{combinatorial and unstructured}$ spaces. This makes existing BO algorithms not feasible due to the intractable maximization of the acquisition function over these domains. To address this issue, we propose $\textbf{GameOpt}$, a novel game-theoretical approach to combinatorial BO. $\textbf{GameOpt}$ establishes a cooperative game between the different optimization variables, and selects points that are game $\textit{equilibria}$ of an upper confidence bound acquisition function. These are stable configurations from which no variable has an incentive to deviate$-$ analog to local optima in continuous domains. Crucially, this allows us to efficiently break down the complexity of the combinatorial domain into individual decision sets, making $\textbf{GameOpt}$ scalable to large combinatorial spaces. We demonstrate the application of $\textbf{GameOpt}$ to the challenging $\textit{protein design}$ problem and validate its performance on four real-world protein datasets. Each protein can take up to $20^{X}$ possible configurations, where $X$ is the length of a protein, making standard BO methods infeasible. Instead, our approach iteratively selects informative protein configurations and very quickly discovers highly active protein variants compared to other baselines.
title Optimistic Games for Combinatorial Bayesian Optimization with Application to Protein Design
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Biomolecules
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18582