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Autores principales: Rubbi, Andrea, Merchant, Arpit, Ogden, Samuel, Akbarnejad, Amir, Liò, Pietro, Vakili, Sattar, Lotfollahi, Mo
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10196
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  • High-throughput gene perturbation experiments can test several genetic interventions in parallel, yet experimental budgets remain limited. A central goal is hit discovery: identifying as many perturbations as possible whose phenotypic effect exceeds a predefined threshold. Pure exploration strategies are statistically inefficient, wasting budget on low-value regions. Bayesian optimization methods offer a principled alternative but target a single global optimum, over-exploiting dominant modes while neglecting other high-value regions. We formalize hit discovery as a sequential experimental design problem and propose Probability-of-Hit, an acquisition function that directly targets threshold exceedance by ranking candidates according to their posterior probability of being a hit. We prove asymptotic optimality of this approach and demonstrate strong empirical performance on both synthetic benchmarks and real biological immunology datasets, including up to 6.4% improvement over baselines on the Schmidt IL-2 dataset.