A parametric approach to Bayesian optimization with pairwise comparisons

Abstract

Optimizing a (preference) function through a small number of pairwise comparisons is challenging since pairwise comparisons provide limited information about the underlying function. In practice, preference functions often have a single peak, and this property could be exploited to speed up the optimization process. In this paper we describe a Bayesian optimization method aimed at achieving this.

Publication
NeurIPS Workshop on Bayesian Optimization
Marco Cox
Marco Cox
Former PhD student

Former researcher at BIASlab.

Bert de Vries
Bert de Vries
Professor

I am a professor at TU Eindhoven and team leader of BIASlab.