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# Adversarially Robust Optimization with Gaussian Processes

@inproceedings{Bogunovic2018AdversariallyRO,
title={Adversarially Robust Optimization with Gaussian Processes},
author={Ilija Bogunovic and Jonathan Scarlett and Stefanie Jegelka and Volkan Cevher},
booktitle={NeurIPS},
year={2018}
}
In this paper, we consider the problem of Gaussian process (GP) optimization with an added robustness requirement: The returned point may be perturbed by an adversary, and we require the function value to degrade as little as possible as a result. [...] Key Method We show that standard GP optimization algorithms do not exhibit the desired robustness properties, and give a novel confidence bound based algorithm StableOPT for this purpose.Expand
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