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Changelog

The release log for BoTorch.

[0.3.0] - July 6, 2020

Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

New Features

  • Multi-Objective Acquisition Functions (#466)
    • q-Expected Hypervolume Improvement
    • q-ParEGO
    • Analytic Expected Hypervolume Improvement with auto-differentiation
  • Multi-Objective Utilities (#466)
    • Pareto Computation
    • Hypervolume Calculation
    • Box Decomposition algorithm
  • Multi-Objective Test Functions (#466)
    • Suite of synthetic test functions for multi-objective, constrained optimzation
  • Multi-Objective Tutorial (#468)
  • Abstract ConstrainedBaseTestProblem (#454)
  • Add optimize_acqf_list method for sequentially, greedily optimizing 1 candidate from each provided acquisition function (d10aec911b241b208c59c192beb9e4d572a092cd)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed re-arranging mean in MultiTask MO models (#450).

Other changes

  • Move gpt_posterior_settings into models.utils (#449)
  • Allow specifications of batch dims to collapse in samplers (#457)
  • Remove outcome transform before model-fitting for sequential model fitting in MO models (#458)

[0.2.5] - May 14, 2020

Bugfix Release

Bug fixes

  • Fixed issue with broken wheel build (#444).

Other changes

  • Changed code style to use absolute imports throughout (#443).

[0.2.4] - May 12, 2020

Bugfix Release

Bug fixes

  • There was a mysterious issue with the 0.2.3 wheel on pypi, where part of the botorch/optim/utils.py file was not included, which resulted in an ImportError for many central components of the code. Interestingly, the source dist (built with the same command) did not have this issue.
  • Preserve order in ChainedOutcomeTransform (#440).

New Features

  • Utilities for estimating the feasible volume under outcome constraints (#437).

[0.2.3] - Apr 27, 2020

Pairwise GP for Preference Learning, Sampling Strategies.

Compatibility

  • Require PyTorch >=1.5 (#423).
  • Require GPyTorch >=1.1.1 (#425).

New Features

  • Add PairwiseGP for preference learning with pair-wise comparison data (#388).
  • Add SamplingStrategy abstraction for sampling-based generation strategies, including MaxPosteriorSampling (i.e. Thompson Sampling) and BoltzmannSampling (#218, #407).

Deprecations

  • The existing botorch.gen module is moved to botorch.generation.gen and imports from botorch.gen will raise a warning (an error in the next release) (#218).

Bug fixes

  • Fix & update a number of tutorials (#394, #398, #393, #399, #403).
  • Fix CUDA tests (#404).
  • Fix sobol maxdim limitation in prune_baseline (#419).

Other changes

  • Better stopping criteria for stochastic optimization (#392).
  • Improve numerical stability of LinearTruncatedFidelityKernel (#409).
  • Allow batched best_f in qExpectedImprovement and qProbabilityOfImprovement (#411).
  • Introduce new logger framework (#412).
  • Faster indexing in some situations (#414).
  • More generic BaseTestProblem (9e604fe2188ac85294c143d249872415c4d95823).

[0.2.2] - Mar 6, 2020

Require PyTorch 1.4, Python 3.7 and new features for active learning, multi-fidelity optimization, and a number of bug fixes.

Compatibility

  • Require PyTorch >=1.4 (#379).
  • Require Python >=3.7 (#378).

New Features

  • Add qNegIntegratedPosteriorVariance for Bayesian active learning (#377).
  • Add FixedNoiseMultiFidelityGP, analogous to SingleTaskMultiFidelityGP (#386).
  • Support scalarize_posterior for m>1 and q>1 posteriors (#374).
  • Support subset_output method on multi-fidelity models (#372).
  • Add utilities for sampling from simplex and hypersphere (#369).

Bug fixes

  • Fix TestLoader local test discovery (#376).
  • Fix batch-list conversion of SingleTaskMultiFidelityGP (#370).
  • Validate tensor args before checking input scaling for more informative error messaages (#368).
  • Fix flaky qNoisyExpectedImprovement test (#362).
  • Fix test function in closed-loop tutorial (#360).
  • Fix num_output attribute in BoTorch/Ax tutorial (#355).

Other changes

  • Require output dimension in MultiTaskGP (#383).
  • Update code of conduct (#380).
  • Remove deprecated joint_optimize and sequential_optimize (#363).

[0.2.1] - Jan 15, 2020

Minor bug fix release.

New Features

  • Add a static method for getting batch shapes for batched MO models (#346).

Bug fixes

  • Revamp qKG constructor to avoid issue with missing objective (#351).
  • Make sure MVES can support sampled costs like KG (#352).

Other changes

  • Allow custom module-to-array handling in fit_gpytorch_scipy (#341).

[0.2.0] - Dec 20, 2019

Max-value entropy acquisition function, cost-aware / multi-fidelity optimization, subsetting models, outcome transforms.

Compatibility

  • Require PyTorch >=1.3.1 (#313).
  • Require GPyTorch >=1.0 (#342).

New Features

  • Add cost-aware KnowledgeGradient (qMultiFidelityKnowledgeGradient) for multi-fidelity optimization (#292).
  • Add qMaxValueEntropy and qMultiFidelityMaxValueEntropy max-value entropy search acquisition functions (#298).
  • Add subset_output functionality to (most) models (#324).
  • Add outcome transforms and input transforms (#321).
  • Add outcome_transform kwarg to model constructors for automatic outcome transformation and un-transformation (#327).
  • Add cost-aware utilities for cost-sensitive acquisiiton functions (#289).
  • Add DeterminsticModel and DetermisticPosterior abstractions (#288).
  • Add AffineFidelityCostModel (f838eacb4258f570c3086d7cbd9aa3cf9ce67904).
  • Add project_to_target_fidelity and expand_trace_observations utilties for use in multi-fidelity optimization (1ca12ac0736e39939fff650cae617680c1a16933).

Performance Improvements

  • New prune_baseline option for pruning X_baseline in qNoisyExpectedImprovement (#287).
  • Do not use approximate MLL computation for deterministic fitting (#314).
  • Avoid re-evaluating the acquisition function in gen_candidates_torch (#319).
  • Use CPU where possible in gen_batch_initial_conditions to avoid memory issues on the GPU (#323).

Bug fixes

  • Properly register NoiseModelAddedLossTerm in HeteroskedasticSingleTaskGP (671c93a203b03ef03592ce322209fc5e71f23a74).
  • Fix batch mode for MultiTaskGPyTorchModel (#316).
  • Honor propagate_grads argument in fantasize of FixedNoiseGP (#303).
  • Properly handle diag arg in LinearTruncatedFidelityKernel (#320).

Other changes

  • Consolidate and simplify multi-fidelity models (#308).
  • New license header style (#309).
  • Validate shape of best_f in qExpectedImprovement (#299).
  • Support specifying observation noise explicitly for all models (#256).
  • Add num_outputs property to the Model API (#330).
  • Validate output shape of models upon instantiating acquisition functions (#331).

Tests

  • Silence warnings outside of explicit tests (#290).
  • Enforce full sphinx docs coverage in CI (#294).

[0.1.4] - Oct 1, 2019

Knowledge Gradient acquisition function (one-shot), various maintenance

Breaking Changes

  • Require explicit output dimensions in BoTorch models (#238)
  • Make joint_optimize / sequential_optimize return acquisition function values (#149) [note deprecation notice below]
  • standardize now works on the second to last dimension (#263)
  • Refactor synthetic test functions (#273)

New Features

  • Add qKnowledgeGradient acquisition function (#272, #276)
  • Add input scaling check to standard models (#267)
  • Add cyclic_optimize, convergence criterion class (#269)
  • Add settings.debug context manager (#242)

Deprecations

  • Consolidate sequential_optimize and joint_optimize into optimize_acqf (#150)

Bug fixes

  • Properly pass noise levels to GPs using a FixedNoiseGaussianLikelihood (#241) [requires gpytorch > 0.3.5]
  • Fix q-batch dimension issue in ConstrainedExpectedImprovement (6c067185f56d3a244c4093393b8a97388fb1c0b3)
  • Fix parameter constraint issues on GPU (#260)

Minor changes

  • Add decorator for concatenating pending points (#240)
  • Draw independent sample from prior for each hyperparameter (#244)
  • Allow dim > 1111 for gen_batch_initial_conditions (#249)
  • Allow optimize_acqf to use q>1 for AnalyticAcquisitionFunction (#257)
  • Allow excluding parameters in fit functions (#259)
  • Track the final iteration objective value in fit_gpytorch_scipy (#258)
  • Error out on unexpected dims in parameter constraint generation (#270)
  • Compute acquisition values in gen_ functions w/o grad (#274)

Tests

  • Introduce BotorchTestCase to simplify test code (#243)
  • Refactor tests to have monolithic cuda tests (#261)

[0.1.3] - Aug 9, 2019

Compatibility & maintenance release

Compatibility

  • Updates to support breaking changes in PyTorch to boolean masks and tensor comparisons (#224).
  • Require PyTorch >=1.2 (#225).
  • Require GPyTorch >=0.3.5 (itself a compatibility release).

New Features

  • Add FixedFeatureAcquisitionFunction wrapper that simplifies optimizing acquisition functions over a subset of input features (#219).
  • Add ScalarizedObjective for scalarizing posteriors (#210).
  • Change default optimization behavior to use L-BFGS-B by for box constraints (#207).

Bug fixes

  • Add validation to candidate generation (#213), making sure constraints are strictly satisfied (rater than just up to numerical accuracy of the optimizer).

Minor changes

  • Introduce AcquisitionObjective base class (#220).
  • Add propagate_grads context manager, replacing the propagate_grads kwarg in model posterior() calls (#221)
  • Add batch_initial_conditions argument to joint_optimize() for warm-starting the optimization (ec3365a37ed02319e0d2bb9bea03aee89b7d9caa).
  • Add return_best_only argument to joint_optimize() (#216). Useful for implementing advanced warm-starting procedures.

[0.1.2] - July 9, 2019

Maintenance release

Bug fixes

  • Avoid [PyTorch bug]((pytorch/pytorch#22353) resulting in bad gradients on GPU by requiring GPyTorch >= 0.3.4
  • Fixes to resampling behavior in MCSamplers (#204)

Experimental Features

  • Linear truncated kernel for multi-fidelity bayesian optimization (#192)
  • SingleTaskMultiFidelityGP for GP models that have fidelity parameters (#181)

[0.1.1] - June 27, 2019

API updates, more robust model fitting

Breaking changes

  • rename botorch.qmc to botorch.sampling, move MC samplers from acquisition.sampler to botorch.sampling.samplers (#172)

New Features

  • Add condition_on_observations and fantasize to the Model level API (#173)
  • Support pending observations generically for all MCAcqusitionFunctions (#176)
  • Add fidelity kernel for training iterations/training data points (#178)
  • Support for optimization constraints across q-batches (to support things like sample budget constraints) (2a95a6c3f80e751d5cf8bc7240ca9f5b1529ec5b)
  • Add ModelList <-> Batched Model converter (#187)
  • New test functions
    • basic: neg_ackley, cosine8, neg_levy, neg_rosenbrock, neg_shekel (e26dc7576c7bf5fa2ba4cb8fbcf45849b95d324b)
    • for multi-fidelity BO: neg_aug_branin, neg_aug_hartmann6, neg_aug_rosenbrock (ec4aca744f65ca19847dc368f9fee4cc297533da)

Improved functionality:

  • More robust model fitting
    • Catch gpytorch numerical issues and return NaN to the optimizer (#184)
    • Restart optimization upon failure by sampling hyperparameters from their prior (#188)
    • Sequentially fit batched and ModelListGP models by default (#189)
    • Change minimum inferred noise level (e2c64fef1e76d526a33951c5eb75ac38d5581257)
  • Introduce optional batch limit in joint_optimize to increases scalability of parallel optimization (baab5786e8eaec02d37a511df04442471c632f8a)
  • Change constructor of ModelListGP to comply with GPyTorch’s IndependentModelList constructor (a6cf739e769c75319a67c7525a023ece8806b15d)
  • Use torch.random to set default seed for samplers (rather than random) to making sampling reproducible when setting torch.manual_seed (ae507ad97255d35f02c878f50ba68a2e27017815)

Performance Improvements

  • Use einsum in LinearMCObjective (22ca29535717cda0fcf7493a43bdf3dda324c22d)
  • Change default Sobol sample size for MCAquisitionFunctions to be base-2 for better MC integration performance (5d8e81866a23d6bfe4158f8c9b30ea14dd82e032)
  • Add ability to fit models in SumMarginalLogLikelihood sequentially (and make that the default setting) (#183)
  • Do not construct the full covariance matrix when computing posterior of single-output BatchedMultiOutputGPyTorchModel (#185)

Bug fixes

  • Properly handle observation_noise kwarg for BatchedMultiOutputGPyTorchModels (#182)
  • Fix a issue where f_best was always max for NoisyExpectedImprovement (de8544a75b58873c449b41840a335f6732754c77)
  • Fix bug and numerical issues in initialize_q_batch (844dcd1dc8f418ae42639e211c6bb8e31a75d8bf)
  • Fix numerical issues with inv_transform for qMC sampling (#162)

Other

  • Bump GPyTorch minimum requirement to 0.3.3

[0.1.0] - April 30, 2019

First public beta release.