Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization via Adaptive \varepsilon-Constraints Decomposition

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Main Authors: Yang, Yaohong, Katt, Sammie, Kaski, Samuel
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author Yang, Yaohong
Katt, Sammie
Kaski, Samuel
author_facet Yang, Yaohong
Katt, Sammie
Kaski, Samuel
contents Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) provides a principled framework for optimizing multiple expensive black-box functions. However, existing MOBO methods often struggle with coverage, scalability, and handling constraints and preferences. In this work we propose STAGE-BO, Sequential Targeting Adaptive Gap-Filling $\varepsilon$-Constraint Bayesian Optimization: by analyzing the coverage of the surrogate Pareto front, our method identifies the Pareto front point with the largest uncovered gap, and uses its coordinates to define adaptive constraints in $\varepsilon$-constraint method, which transforms the problem into a sequence of inequality-constrained subproblems, efficiently solved via constrained expected improvement acquisition. Our approach provides uniform Pareto coverage without hypervolume computation and naturally handles constraints and preferences. Experiments on synthetic and real-world benchmarks demonstrate superior coverage and competitive hypervolume performance against state-of-the-art baselines. Our code implementation can be found at https://github.com/YangYaohong1/STAGE-BO.
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spellingShingle Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization via Adaptive \varepsilon-Constraints Decomposition
Yang, Yaohong
Katt, Sammie
Kaski, Samuel
Machine Learning
Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) provides a principled framework for optimizing multiple expensive black-box functions. However, existing MOBO methods often struggle with coverage, scalability, and handling constraints and preferences. In this work we propose STAGE-BO, Sequential Targeting Adaptive Gap-Filling $\varepsilon$-Constraint Bayesian Optimization: by analyzing the coverage of the surrogate Pareto front, our method identifies the Pareto front point with the largest uncovered gap, and uses its coordinates to define adaptive constraints in $\varepsilon$-constraint method, which transforms the problem into a sequence of inequality-constrained subproblems, efficiently solved via constrained expected improvement acquisition. Our approach provides uniform Pareto coverage without hypervolume computation and naturally handles constraints and preferences. Experiments on synthetic and real-world benchmarks demonstrate superior coverage and competitive hypervolume performance against state-of-the-art baselines. Our code implementation can be found at https://github.com/YangYaohong1/STAGE-BO.
title Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization via Adaptive \varepsilon-Constraints Decomposition
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15959