Bayesian Optimization for Function Compositions with Applications to Dynamic Pricing
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arXiv2303.11954MaRDI QIDQ6430359
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Publication date: 21 March 2023
Abstract: Bayesian Optimization (BO) is used to find the global optima of black box functions. In this work, we propose a practical BO method of function compositions where the form of the composition is known but the constituent functions are expensive to evaluate. By assuming an independent Gaussian process (GP) model for each of the constituent black-box function, we propose Expected Improvement (EI) and Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) based BO algorithms and demonstrate their ability to outperform not just vanilla BO but also the current state-of-art algorithms. We demonstrate a novel application of the proposed methods to dynamic pricing in revenue management when the underlying demand function is expensive to evaluate.
Has companion code repository: https://github.com/kjain1810/bayesian-optimization-for-function-compositions-with-applications-to-dynamic-pricing
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