Long Talk: BORE — Bayesian Optimization by Density-Ratio Estimation
The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), virtual.
Louis Tiao
Research Scientist
My name is Louis Tiao, and I graduated from one of Australia’s
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Invited Talk: BORE — Bayesian Optimization by Density-Ratio Estimation
ELLIS AutoML Seminars (virtual).
BORE: Bayesian Optimization by Density-Ratio Estimation
We reformulate the computation of the acquisition function in Bayesian optimization (BO) as a probabilistic classification problem, providing advantages in scalability, …
📄 One paper accepted to ICML 2021
Our paper "BORE — Bayesian Optimization by Density-Ratio Estimation" was accepted to ICML 2021 as a Long Talk (top 3% of submissions).
A Primer on Pólya-gamma Random Variables - Part II: Bayesian Logistic Regression
We use one weird trick — Pólya-Gamma augmentation — to make exact inference in Bayesian logistic regression tractable.
An Illustrated Guide to the Knowledge Gradient Acquisition Function
We give a short illustrated reference guide to the Knowledge Gradient acquisition function with an implementation from scratch in TensorFlow Probability.
Contributed Talk: BORE — Bayesian Optimization by Density-Ratio Estimation
NeurIPS 2020 4th Workshop on Meta-Learning (virtual).
Bayesian Optimization by Density Ratio Estimation
📄 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2020
Our paper "Variational Inference for Graph Convolutional Networks in the Absence of Graph Data and Adversarial Settings" was accepted to NeurIPS 2020 as a Spotlight Presentation …