High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization using Lasso Variable Selection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01743v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:54:04 GMT
• Title: High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization using Lasso Variable Selection
• Authors: Vu Viet Hoang, Hung The Tran, Sunil Gupta, Vu Nguyen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel method that identifies important variables by estimating the length scales of Gaussian process kernels.<n>We demonstrate that our proposed method achieves cumulative regret with a sublinear growth rate in the worst case.<n> Experiments on high-dimensional synthetic functions and real-world problems show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance.
• Score: 9.051539805042651
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a leading method for optimizing expensive black-box optimization and has been successfully applied across various scenarios. However, BO suffers from the curse of dimensionality, making it challenging to scale to high-dimensional problems. Existing work has adopted a variable selection strategy to select and optimize only a subset of variables iteratively. Although this approach can mitigate the high-dimensional challenge in BO, it still leads to sample inefficiency. To address this issue, we introduce a novel method that identifies important variables by estimating the length scales of Gaussian process kernels. Next, we construct an effective search region consisting of multiple subspaces and optimize the acquisition function within this region, focusing on only the important variables. We demonstrate that our proposed method achieves cumulative regret with a sublinear growth rate in the worst case while maintaining computational efficiency. Experiments on high-dimensional synthetic functions and real-world problems show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance.

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