Talk:Bayesian optimization

"does not assume any functional forms"

I'll admit that this may be a pedantic point, but is the statement "does not assume any functional forms" accurate? Later in the article it talks about using Kriging as one option for the underlying surrogate. Kriging is quite general, but it's not able to capture all possible functional forms. For example, it's limited to continuous functions (at least for the typical form of Kriging I've seen used). Bayesian Optimization can use essentially any surrogate form on which the confidence interval can be calculated, which is good for generality, but means the user must make a decision about what surrogate to use at the start of the process. If that surrogate is not well-suited to the problem then this approach may give poor results.

My point in all this is I think this statement in the opening sentence is inaccurate and may give readers the wrong idea. - EndingPop (talk) 14:30, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Pareto Optimization

Bayesian optimization inherently deals with the exploration exploitation tradeoff (of suggesting new points) and is therefore closely related to the concept of pareto optima. Could somebody please discuss this in the article? Biggerj1 (talk) 21:49, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Good observation! These are indeed conflicting goals that could be handled using multiobjectie optimization. However, this is rather a current research topic than state of the art. BumbleMath (talk) 13:33, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Adding pseudo code in wikipedia

Hi there,

how do I add Pseudo Code in wikipedia?

Regards Ethan R. Erdabravest (talk) 14:58, 20 June 2024 (UTC)