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Benjamin Ward Muir
dblp:314/6027
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 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.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization › bayesian optimization
acquisition function |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Mixed-Variable Black-Box Optimisation Using Value Proposal Trees · AAAI 2023 |
Mathematical optimization
bayesian optimization |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Mixed-Variable Black-Box Optimisation Using Value Proposal Trees · AAAI 2023 |
Mathematical optimization
black-box optimization |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Mixed-Variable Black-Box Optimisation Using Value Proposal Trees · AAAI 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
value proposal trees · 0.7bayesian optimization · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Mixed-Variable Black-Box Optimisation Using Value Proposal TreesabstractMany real-world optimisation problems are defined over both categorical and continuous variables, yet efficient optimisation methods such as Bayesian Optimisation (BO) are ill-equipped to handle such mixed-variable search spaces. The optimisation breadth introduced by categorical variables in the mixed-input setting has seen recent approaches operating on local trust regions, but these methods can be greedy in suboptimal regions of the search space. In this paper, we adopt a holistic view and aim to consolidate optimisation of the categorical and continuous sub-spaces under a single acquisition metric. We develop a tree-based method which retains a global view of the optimisation spaces by identifying regions in the search space with high potential candidates which we call value proposals. Our method uses these proposals to make selections on both the categorical and continuous components of the input. We show that this approach significantly outperforms existing mixed-variable optimisation approaches across several mixed-variable black-box optimisation tasks. Amir Dezfouli, David Alexander, Benjamin Ward Muir, Iadine Chades |
AAAI | 5 |