GRAPE: Gradient Refinement and Progress-Aware Exploitation for Query-Efficient High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2608.25116 · cs.LG, cs.AI, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Code: https://github.com/richardcsuwandi/grape

Terminology

• Bayesian Optimization — 51× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regret — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adversarial Attacks — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 8× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Acquisition Function — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Local Optimization — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Expected Improvement — 5× in this paper
• Gradient Refinement and Progress-Aware Exploitation — 5× in this paper
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Probability of Improvement — 3× in this paper
• Sample Efficiency — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Optimization (BO) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Intrinsic Dimension — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Two-Stage Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• BoLT: A Benchmark to Democratize Black-box Optimization Research for Expensive LLM Tasks
• EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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