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Poster

Generative Adversarial Bayesian Optimization for Surrogate Objectives

Michael Yao · Yimeng Zeng · Hamsa Bastani · Jacob Gardner · James Gee · Osbert Bastani

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Thu 12 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST

Abstract:

Offline model-based policy optimization seeks to optimize against a learned surrogate model without querying the true oracle objective function during optimization. However, inaccurate surrogate model predictions are frequently encountered along the optimization trajectory. To address this limitation, we propose generative adversarial Bayesian optimization (GABO) using adaptive source critic regularization, a task-agnostic framework for Bayesian optimization that employs a Lipschitz-bounded source critic model to constrain the optimization trajectory to regions where the surrogate function is reliable. We show that under certain assumptions for the continuous input space prior, our algorithm can dynamically adjust the strength of the source critic regularization. GABO outperforms existing baselines on a number of different offline optimization tasks across a variety of scientific domains.

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