Enhancing Trust-Region Bayesian Optimization via Newton Methods

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Main Authors: Chen, Quanlin, Chen, Yiyu, Huo, Jing, Ding, Tianyu, Gao, Yang, Chen, Yuetong
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author Chen, Quanlin
Chen, Yiyu
Huo, Jing
Ding, Tianyu
Gao, Yang
Chen, Yuetong
author_facet Chen, Quanlin
Chen, Yiyu
Huo, Jing
Ding, Tianyu
Gao, Yang
Chen, Yuetong
contents Bayesian Optimization (BO) has been widely applied to optimize expensive black-box functions while retaining sample efficiency. However, scaling BO to high-dimensional spaces remains challenging. Existing literature proposes performing standard BO in multiple local trust regions (TuRBO) for heterogeneous modeling of the objective function and avoiding over-exploration. Despite its advantages, using local Gaussian Processes (GPs) reduces sampling efficiency compared to a global GP. To enhance sampling efficiency while preserving heterogeneous modeling, we propose to construct multiple local quadratic models using gradients and Hessians from a global GP, and select new sample points by solving the bound-constrained quadratic program. Additionally, we address the issue of vanishing gradients of GPs in high-dimensional spaces. We provide a convergence analysis and demonstrate through experimental results that our method enhances the efficacy of TuRBO and outperforms a wide range of high-dimensional BO techniques on synthetic functions and real-world applications.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Trust-Region Bayesian Optimization via Newton Methods
Chen, Quanlin
Chen, Yiyu
Huo, Jing
Ding, Tianyu
Gao, Yang
Chen, Yuetong
Machine Learning
Bayesian Optimization (BO) has been widely applied to optimize expensive black-box functions while retaining sample efficiency. However, scaling BO to high-dimensional spaces remains challenging. Existing literature proposes performing standard BO in multiple local trust regions (TuRBO) for heterogeneous modeling of the objective function and avoiding over-exploration. Despite its advantages, using local Gaussian Processes (GPs) reduces sampling efficiency compared to a global GP. To enhance sampling efficiency while preserving heterogeneous modeling, we propose to construct multiple local quadratic models using gradients and Hessians from a global GP, and select new sample points by solving the bound-constrained quadratic program. Additionally, we address the issue of vanishing gradients of GPs in high-dimensional spaces. We provide a convergence analysis and demonstrate through experimental results that our method enhances the efficacy of TuRBO and outperforms a wide range of high-dimensional BO techniques on synthetic functions and real-world applications.
title Enhancing Trust-Region Bayesian Optimization via Newton Methods
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18423