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Haydn Thomas Jones

4 accepted papers

2026

Scaling Multi-Task Bayesian Optimization with Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

In multi-task Bayesian optimization, the goal is to leverage experience from optimizing existing tasks to improve the efficiency of optimizing new ones. While approaches using multi-task Gaussian processes or deep kernel transfer exist, the performance improvement is marginal when scaling beyond a m…

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2025

A Dataset for Distilling Knowledge Priors from Literature for Therapeutic Design

NeurIPS 2025poster

AI-driven discovery can greatly reduce design time and enhance new therapeutics' effectiveness. Models using simulators explore broad design spaces but risk violating implicit constraints due to a lack of experimental priors. For example, in a new analysis across diverse models on the GuacaMol bench…

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2025

Covering Multiple Objectives with a Small Set of Solutions Using Bayesian Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

In multi-objective black-box optimization, the goal is typically to find solutions that optimize a set of $T$ black-box objective functions, $f_1, \ldots f_T$, simultaneously. Traditional approaches often seek a single Pareto-optimal set that balances trade-offs among all objectives. In contrast, w…

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2022

Local Latent Space Bayesian Optimization over Structured Inputs

NeurIPS 2022accept

Bayesian optimization over the latent spaces of deep autoencoder models (DAEs) has recently emerged as a promising new approach for optimizing challenging black-box functions over structured, discrete, hard-to-enumerate search spaces (e.g., molecules). Here the DAE dramatically simplifies the search…