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Great idea. Will run some experiments to see how it performs. It sounds analogous to kmeans++ initialization. Sobol sequences ring a bell. Some of the Bayesian
by alicez 11y ago
Great idea. Will run some experiments to see how it performs. It sounds analogous to kmeans++ initialization. Sobol sequences ring a bell. Some of the Bayesian optimization software libraries may in fact use a Sobol sequence of initial evaluations. But it may not be well documented.
- doobwa 11y agoSpearmint, for example: https://github.com/JasperSnoek/spearmint/blob/master/spearmint-lite/ExperimentGrid.py#L188 https://github.com/JasperSnoek/spearmint/blob/master/spearmi...