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most citedUnexpected Improvements to Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization

47 citations · 47 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Efficiently Estimating Optimal Hyperparameter Scaling Laws through Power-Law Entropy Search

Zhiliang Chen, Sebastian Ament, David Eriksson +4

Optimal hyperparameter scaling laws describe how the best hyperparameters for large language model (LLM) training change with model and data scale, enabling practitioners to predic…

cs.LG2026

MobileLLM-Flash: Latency-Guided On-Device LLM Design for Industry Scale Deployment

Hanxian Huang, Igor Fedorov, Andrey Gromov +14

Real-time AI experiences call for on-device large language models (OD-LLMs) optimized for efficient deployment on resource-constrained hardware. The most useful OD-LLMs produce nea…

cs.LG2026

Empirical Gaussian Processes

Jihao Andreas Lin, Sebastian Ament, Louis C. Tiao +3

Gaussian processes (GPs) are powerful and widely used probabilistic regression models, but their effectiveness in practice is often limited by the choice of kernel function. This k…

cs.LG2026

BONSAI: Bayesian Optimization with Natural Simplicity and Interpretability

Samuel Daulton, David Eriksson, Maximilian Balandat +1

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular technique for sample-efficient optimization of black-box functions. In many applications, the parameters being tuned come with a carefully e…

cs.LG2025

Informed Initialization for Bayesian Optimization and Active Learning

Carl Hvarfner, David Eriksson, Eytan Bakshy +1

Bayesian Optimization is a widely used method for optimizing expensive black-box functions, relying on probabilistic surrogate models such as Gaussian Processes. The quality of the…

cs.LG2025

Scalable Gaussian Processes with Latent Kronecker Structure

Jihao Andreas Lin, Sebastian Ament, Maximilian Balandat +3

Applying Gaussian processes (GPs) to very large datasets remains a challenge due to limited computational scalability. Matrix structures, such as the Kronecker product, can acceler…

cs.LG2024

Robust Gaussian Processes via Relevance Pursuit

Sebastian Ament, Elizabeth Santorella, David Eriksson +3

Gaussian processes (GPs) are non-parametric probabilistic regression models that are popular due to their flexibility, data efficiency, and well-calibrated uncertainty estimates. H…

cs.LG2024

Sample-Efficient Bayesian Optimization with Transfer Learning for Heterogeneous Search Spaces

Aryan Deshwal, Sait Cakmak, Yuhou Xia +1

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful approach to sample-efficient optimization of black-box functions. However, in settings with very few function evaluations, a successful app…

cs.LG2024

Approximation-Aware Bayesian Optimization

Natalie Maus, Kyurae Kim, Geoff Pleiss +3

High-dimensional Bayesian optimization (BO) tasks such as molecular design often require 10,000 function evaluations before obtaining meaningful results. While methods like sparse…

cs.LG2023★ 47 cited

Unexpected Improvements to Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization

Sebastian Ament, Samuel Daulton, David Eriksson +2

Expected Improvement (EI) is arguably the most popular acquisition function in Bayesian optimization and has found countless successful applications, but its performance is often e…