Human-in-the-Loop Meta Bayesian Optimization for Fusion Energy and Scientific Applications

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Main Authors: Gutierrez, Ricardo Luna, Ghorbanpour, Sahand, Rahman, Ejaz, Gopalaswamy, Varchas, Betti, Riccardo, Gundecha, Vineet, Lees, Aarne, Sarkar, Soumyendu
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author Gutierrez, Ricardo Luna
Ghorbanpour, Sahand
Rahman, Ejaz
Gopalaswamy, Varchas
Betti, Riccardo
Gundecha, Vineet
Lees, Aarne
Sarkar, Soumyendu
author_facet Gutierrez, Ricardo Luna
Ghorbanpour, Sahand
Rahman, Ejaz
Gopalaswamy, Varchas
Betti, Riccardo
Gundecha, Vineet
Lees, Aarne
Sarkar, Soumyendu
contents Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) holds transformative promise for sustainable, near-limitless clean energy, yet remains constrained by prohibitively high costs and limited experimental opportunities. This paper presents Human-in-the-Loop Meta Bayesian Optimization (HL-MBO), a framework that integrates expert knowledge with few-shot, uncertainty-aware machine learning to accelerate discovery in data-scarce, high-stakes scientific domains. HL-MBO introduces a meta-learned surrogate model with an expert-informed acquisition function to recommend candidate experiments. To foster trust and enable informed decisions, HL-MBO also provides interpretable explanations of its suggestions. We show HL-MBO outperforms current BO methods on ICF energy yield optimization, as well as benchmarks in molecular optimization and critical temperature maximization for superconducting materials.
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spellingShingle Human-in-the-Loop Meta Bayesian Optimization for Fusion Energy and Scientific Applications
Gutierrez, Ricardo Luna
Ghorbanpour, Sahand
Rahman, Ejaz
Gopalaswamy, Varchas
Betti, Riccardo
Gundecha, Vineet
Lees, Aarne
Sarkar, Soumyendu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Plasma Physics
Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) holds transformative promise for sustainable, near-limitless clean energy, yet remains constrained by prohibitively high costs and limited experimental opportunities. This paper presents Human-in-the-Loop Meta Bayesian Optimization (HL-MBO), a framework that integrates expert knowledge with few-shot, uncertainty-aware machine learning to accelerate discovery in data-scarce, high-stakes scientific domains. HL-MBO introduces a meta-learned surrogate model with an expert-informed acquisition function to recommend candidate experiments. To foster trust and enable informed decisions, HL-MBO also provides interpretable explanations of its suggestions. We show HL-MBO outperforms current BO methods on ICF energy yield optimization, as well as benchmarks in molecular optimization and critical temperature maximization for superconducting materials.
title Human-in-the-Loop Meta Bayesian Optimization for Fusion Energy and Scientific Applications
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00068