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20242026
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11 papers

math.OC2026

Meta-learning for sample-efficient Bayesian optimisation of fed-batch processes

Becky Langdon, Gabriel D. Patrón, Chrysoula D. Kappatou +6

The optimisation of fed-batch (bio)chemical process recipes is subject to inherent, underlying, and unmeasurable fluctuations across batches, whose trajectories are difficult to mo…

math.OC2026

BoGrape: Bayesian optimization over graphs with shortest-path encoded

Yilin Xie, Shiqiang Zhang, Jixiang Qing +2

Graph-structured data are central to many scientific and industrial applications where the goal is to optimize expensive black-box objectives defined over graph structures or node…

cs.LG2025

The Catechol Benchmark: Time-series Solvent Selection Data for Few-shot Machine Learning

Toby Boyne, Juan S. Campos, Becky D. Langdon +11

Machine learning has promised to change the landscape of laboratory chemistry, with impressive results in molecular property prediction and reaction retro-synthesis. However, chemi…

math.OC2025

Beyond adjacency: Graph encoding with reachability and shortest paths

Shiqiang Zhang, Ruth Misener

Graph-structured data is central to many scientific and industrial domains, where the goal is often to optimize objectives defined over graph structures. Given the combinatorial co…

cs.LG2025

BARK: A Fully Bayesian Tree Kernel for Black-box Optimization

Toby Boyne, Jose Pablo Folch, Robert M Lee +2

We perform Bayesian optimization using a Gaussian process perspective on Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART). Our BART Kernel (BARK) uses tree agreement to define a posterior…

cs.LG2025

Global optimization of graph acquisition functions for neural architecture search

Yilin Xie, Shiqiang Zhang, Jixiang Qing +2

Graph Bayesian optimization (BO) has shown potential as a powerful and data-efficient tool for neural architecture search (NAS). Most existing graph BO works focus on developing gr…