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Bayesian Optimistic Optimisation with Exponentially Decaying Regret

Hung Tran-The · Sunil Gupta · Santu Rana · Svetha Venkatesh

Abstract: Bayesian optimisation (BO) is a well known algorithm for finding the global optimum of expensive, black-box functions. The current practical BO algorithms have regret bounds ranging from O(logNN) to O(eN), where N is the number of evaluations. This paper explores the possibility of improving the regret bound in the noise-free setting by intertwining concepts from BO and optimistic optimisation methods which are based on partitioning the search space. We propose the BOO algorithm, a first practical approach which can achieve an exponential regret bound with order O(NN) under the assumption that the objective function is sampled from a Gaussian process with a Mat\'ern kernel with smoothness parameter ν>4+D2, where D is the number of dimensions. We perform experiments on optimisation of various synthetic functions and machine learning hyperparameter tuning tasks and show that our algorithm outperforms baselines.

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