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7 papers

stat.ML2026

Generative Bayesian Optimization: Generative Models as Acquisition Functions

Rafael Oliveira, Daniel M. Steinberg, Edwin V. Bonilla

We present a general strategy for turning generative models into candidate solution samplers for batch Bayesian optimization (BO). The use of generative models for BO enables large…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Scale Wavelet Transformers for Operator Learning of Dynamical Systems

Xuesong Wang, Michael Groom, Rafael Oliveira +3

Recent years have seen a surge in data-driven surrogates for dynamical systems that can be orders of magnitude faster than numerical solvers. However, many machine learning-based m…

stat.CO2026

Variational Transdimensional Inference

Laurence Davies, Dan Mackinlay, Rafael Oliveira +1

The expressiveness of flow-based models combined with stochastic variational inference (SVI) has expanded the application of optimization-based Bayesian inference to highly complex…

stat.ML2026

Thompson Sampling in Function Spaces via Neural Operators

Rafael Oliveira, Xuesong Wang, Kian Ming A. Chai +1

We propose an extension of Thompson sampling to optimization problems over function spaces where the objective is a known functional of an unknown operator's output. We assume that…

cs.LG2025

Amortized Active Generation of Pareto Sets

Daniel M. Steinberg, Asiri Wijesinghe, Rafael Oliveira +3

We introduce active generation of Pareto sets (A-GPS), a new framework for online discrete black-box multi-objective optimization (MOO). A-GPS learns a generative model of the Pare…

stat.ML2025

Variational Search Distributions

Daniel M. Steinberg, Rafael Oliveira, Cheng Soon Ong +1

We develop VSD, a method for conditioning a generative model of discrete, combinatorial designs on a rare desired class by efficiently evaluating a black-box (e.g. experiment, simu…