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Bing-Jing Hsieh
dblp:294/7038
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
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 · 50% Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 25% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, 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
acquisition function learning |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Reinforced Few-Shot Acquisition Function Learning for Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2021 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › deep probabilistic models
bayesian deep learning |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Reinforced Few-Shot Acquisition Function Learning for Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2021 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › model-based optimization
bayesian optimization |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Reinforced Few-Shot Acquisition Function Learning for Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2021 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
meta-learning |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Reinforced Few-Shot Acquisition Function Learning for Bayesian Optimization · NeurIPS 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
kullback-leibler regularization · 0.5deep q-network · 0.5bayesian model-agnostic meta-learning · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Reinforced Few-Shot Acquisition Function Learning for Bayesian OptimizationabstractBayesian optimization (BO) conventionally relies on handcrafted acquisition functions (AFs) to sequentially determine the sample points. However, it has been widely observed in practice that the best-performing AF in terms of regret can vary significantly under different types of black-box functions. It has remained a challenge to design one AF that can attain the best performance over a wide variety of black-box functions. This paper aims to attack this challenge through the perspective of reinforced few-shot AF learning (FSAF). Specifically, we first connect the notion of AFs with Q-functions and view a deep Q-network (DQN) as a surrogate differentiable AF. While it serves as a natural idea to combine DQN and an existing few-shot learning method, we identify that such a direct combination does not perform well due to severe overfitting, which is particularly critical in BO due to the need of a versatile sampling policy. To address this, we present a Bayesian variant of DQN with the following three features: (i) It learns a distribution of Q-networks as AFs based on the Kullback-Leibler regularization framework. This inherently provides the uncertainty required in sampling for BO and mitigates overfitting. (ii) For the prior of the Bayesian DQN, we propose to use a demo policy induced by an off-the-shelf AF for better training stability. (iii) On the meta-level, we leverage the meta-loss of Bayesian model-agnostic meta-learning, which serves as a natural companion to the proposed FSAF. Moreover, with the proper design of the Q-networks, FSAF is general-purpose in that it is agnostic to the dimension and the cardinality of the input domain. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that the FSAF achieves comparable or better regrets than the state-of-the-art benchmarks on a wide variety of synthetic and real-world test functions. Bing-Jing Hsieh, Ping-Chun Hsieh, Xi Liu 0011 |
NeurIPS | 1 |