Amortized Acquisition Optimization for Bayesian Optimization with Variational Mutual Information

arXiv:2601.08172 · cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT · Submitted 2026-01-13 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-01-13

Updated: 2026-10-05

Terminology

• Bayesian Optimization — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Mutual Information — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Acquisition Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Actor-Critic Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Optimization (BO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gaussian Processes (GPs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gradient Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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