A comparison of optimisation algorithms for high-dimensional particle and astrophysics applications

1 code implementation • 12 Jan 2021 • The DarkMachines High Dimensional Sampling Group, Csaba Balázs, Melissa van Beekveld, Sascha Caron, Barry M. Dillon, Ben Farmer, Andrew Fowlie, Will Handley, Luc Hendriks, Guðlaugur Jóhannesson, Adam Leinweber, Judita Mamužić, Gregory D. Martinez, Pat Scott, Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Zachary Searle, Bob Stienen, Joaquin Vanschoren, Martin White

Optimisation problems are ubiquitous in particle and astrophysics, and involve locating the optimum of a complicated function of many parameters that may be computationally expensive to evaluate.

Bayesian Optimisation High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Computational Physics