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Assistant Professor @USC in CS + AI. Previously @Stanford, @SCSatCMU. Machine Learning, Decision Making, AI-for-Science, GenAI, Uncertainty Estimation, Systems.
Jul 7, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
(1/9) Presenting: Bayesian Algorithm Execution (BAX) and the InfoBAX algorithm.

Bayesian optimization finds global optima of expensive black-box functions. But what about other function properties?

w/ @KAlexanderWang @StefanoErmon at #ICML2021

URL: willieneis.github.io/bax-website (2/9) Methods like Bayes opt / quadrature can be viewed as estimating properties of a black-box function (e.g. global optima, integrals). But in many applications we also care about local optima, level sets, top-k optima, boundaries, integrals, roots, graph properties, and more Example properties of black...