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The Beauty of Bayesian Optimization, Explained in Simple Terms

The intuition behind an ingenious algorithm

Andre Ye
Towards Data Science
7 min readSep 12, 2020

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Here’s a function: f(x). It’s expensive to calculate, not necessarily an analytic expression, and you don’t know its derivative.

Your task: find the global minima.

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