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Oak Nelson
dblp:255/7007
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2019
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Optimization for machine learning · 94% Reinforcement learning · 6% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › model-based optimization
bayesian optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Offline Contextual Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
black-box optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Offline Contextual Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › model-based optimization › bayesian optimization
contextual bayesian optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Offline Contextual Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › optimization
offline optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Offline Contextual Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
multi-task optimization |
0.1 | 1 | 2019 | Offline Contextual Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2019 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › curriculum reinforcement learning
task selection |
0.1 | 1 | 2019 | Offline Contextual Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2019 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
gaussian process · 0.4bayesian optimization · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Offline Contextual Bayesian OptimizationabstractIn black-box optimization, an agent repeatedly chooses a configuration to test, so as to find an optimal configuration. In many practical problems of interest, one would like to optimize several systems, or tasks'', simultaneously; however, in most of these scenarios the current task is determined by nature. In this work, we explore theoffline'' case in which one is able to bypass nature and choose the next task to evaluate (e.g. via a simulator). Because some tasks may be easier to optimize and others may be more critical, it is crucial to leverage algorithms that not only consider which configurations to try next, but also which tasks to make evaluations for. In this work, we describe a theoretically grounded Bayesian optimization method to tackle this problem. We also demonstrate that if the model of the reward structure does a poor job of capturing variation in difficulty between tasks, then algorithms that actively pick tasks for evaluation may end up doing more harm than good. Following this, we show how our approach can be used for real world applications in science and engineering, including optimizing tokamak controls for nuclear fusion. Ian Char, Youngseog Chung, Willie Neiswanger, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Oak Nelson, Mark D. Boyer, Egemen Kolemen |
NeurIPS | 5 |