Posts about _recent-highlight
- Behaviour-based evaluations in Bayesian optimization
- Rebranding BO away from "black-box" and towards "model-based"
- Clarifying noise vs model misspecification in Gaussian Process models (and its importance in BO)
- We are underselling the modularity of Bayesian optimization
- Why I don't care about toy benchmarks in BO
- We have forgotten about utility functions in BO (whoops!)
- My model-centric view of Bayesian optimization
- Predictions for ML/AI in 2026 (and 2025 predictions re-visited).
- New Year's Resolutions for 2026 (and scoring 2025 resolutions)
- Review of NeurIPS 2025
- Justifying expected utility maximization from first principles (Von Neumann–Morgenstern).
- An accessible introduction to mutual information using a d20
- Is offline model-based optimization a realistic problem? (I'm not convinced)
- Double checking that Gauche's fingerprint kernels are positive definite
- Rules of scientific English writing for an international audience.
- When should you expect Bayesian optimization to work well?
- Advice for applying for a PhD in AI for science in 2024
- Thoughts on Google Vizier