Understanding Hidden Spatial Preferences in Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2610.14696 · cs.LG, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-10-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-10-10

Updated: 2026-10-10

Code: https://github.com/mariabankestad/spatial-bo

Terminology

• Bayesian Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Boundary Variance Inflation Causes Acquisition Bias in Gaussian Processes
• Correcting Boundary Bias and Observation Independence in Bayesian Experimental Design

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