Rich Caruana
(Microsoft Research)
11/07/2015 08:30
Matthew Hoffmann
(University of Cambridge)
11/07/2015 09:10
Complex optimization and decision making tasks are beginning to play an
increasingly crucial role across a wide variety of scientific fields. This is
becoming more and more evident as entire research programs are being automated.
In this talk I'll describe a set of methods, known as Bayesian optimization,
which provide a very sample efficient approach to this problem. Much of the
gains...