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MAKE_BOOK_FIGURES=Trueimport numpy as npimport scipy.stats as stimport matplotlib as mplimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt%matplotlib inlineimport matplotlib_inlinematplotlib_inline.backend_inline.set_matplotlib_formats('svg')import seaborn as snssns.set_context("paper")sns.set_style("ticks")def set_book_style(): plt.style.use('seaborn-v0_8-white') sns.set_style("ticks") sns.set_palette("deep") mpl.rcParams.update({ # Font settings 'font.family': 'serif', # For academic publishing 'font.size': 8, # As requested, 10pt font 'axes.labelsize': 8, 'axes.titlesize': 8, 'xtick.labelsize': 7, # Slightly smaller for better readability 'ytick.labelsize': 7, 'legend.fontsize': 7, # Line and marker settings for consistency 'axes.linewidth': 0.5, 'grid.linewidth': 0.5, 'lines.linewidth': 1.0, 'lines.markersize': 4, # Layout to prevent clipped labels 'figure.constrained_layout.use': True, # Default DPI (will override when saving) 'figure.dpi': 600, 'savefig.dpi': 600, # Despine - remove top and right spines 'axes.spines.top': False, 'axes.spines.right': False, # Remove legend frame 'legend.frameon': False, # Additional trim settings 'figure.autolayout': True, # Alternative to constrained_layout 'savefig.bbox': 'tight', # Trim when saving 'savefig.pad_inches': 0.1 # Small padding to ensure nothing gets cut off })def set_notebook_style(): plt.style.use('seaborn-v0_8-white') sns.set_style("ticks") sns.set_palette("deep") mpl.rcParams.update({ # Font settings - using default sizes 'font.family': 'serif', 'axes.labelsize': 10, 'axes.titlesize': 10, 'xtick.labelsize': 9, 'ytick.labelsize': 9, 'legend.fontsize': 9, # Line and marker settings 'axes.linewidth': 0.5, 'grid.linewidth': 0.5, 'lines.linewidth': 1.0, 'lines.markersize': 4, # Layout settings 'figure.constrained_layout.use': True, # Remove only top and right spines 'axes.spines.top': False, 'axes.spines.right': False, # Remove legend frame 'legend.frameon': False, # Additional settings 'figure.autolayout': True, 'savefig.bbox': 'tight', 'savefig.pad_inches': 0.1 })def save_for_book(fig, filename, is_vector=True, **kwargs): """ Save a figure with book-optimized settings. Parameters: ----------- fig : matplotlib figure The figure to save filename : str Filename without extension is_vector : bool If True, saves as vector at 1000 dpi. If False, saves as raster at 600 dpi. **kwargs : dict Additional kwargs to pass to savefig """ # Set appropriate DPI and format based on figure type if is_vector: dpi = 1000 ext = '.pdf' else: dpi = 600 ext = '.tif' # Save the figure with book settings fig.savefig(f"{filename}{ext}", dpi=dpi, **kwargs)def make_full_width_fig(): return plt.subplots(figsize=(4.7, 2.9), constrained_layout=True)def make_half_width_fig(): return plt.subplots(figsize=(2.35, 1.45), constrained_layout=True)if MAKE_BOOK_FIGURES: set_book_style()else: set_notebook_style()make_full_width_fig = make_full_width_fig if MAKE_BOOK_FIGURES else lambda: plt.subplots()make_half_width_fig = make_half_width_fig if MAKE_BOOK_FIGURES else lambda: plt.subplots()
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!pip install gpytorch
Maximum Upper Interval#
We develop intuition about the maximum upper interval acquisition function.
Exploration vs Exploitation#
The question is this: “Where should we evaluate the function next if our goal is to maximize it?” Two possibilities for choosing a point for the subsequent evaluation are:
Exploitation: We can select a point \(\mathbf{x}\) that exploits our current state of knowledge by concentrating on the region where the model thinks the maximum is. In our working example, that would be next to the leftmost observation.
Exploration: We can explore the regions of maximum predictive uncertainty because there is a high chance that they may hide the maximum of the function. In our working example, this is the region between the two observations on the right.
Generally speaking, focusing exclusively on exploration or exploitation is a terrible idea. On the one hand, if we focus on exploration, we will, in the end, recover the actual response surface (and as a consequence, we will get the correct maximum of the function). Still, we waste a lot of evaluations on regions that are unlikely to contain the maximum. If, on the other hand, we focus on exploitation, we will very quickly converge to a local maximum, and a lot of the input space will remain unexplored; see the previous hands-on activity.
So, what should a good information acquisition function \(a_n(\mathbf{x})\) for optimization do? It should strike a balance between exploration and exploitation in a way that provably reveals the global maximum of the function in the limit of infinite evaluations. Are there such information acquisition algorithms? Yes, there are. We will explore the first such acquisition function, the maximum upper interval, in this hands-on activity.
Let’s reintroduce the same running example as the previous hands-on activity.
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def f(x):
"""A function to optimize."""
return -4 * (1. - np.sin(6 * x + 8 * np.exp(6 * x - 7.)))
np.random.seed(12345)
n_init = 3
X = np.random.rand(n_init)
Y = f(X)
plt.plot(X, Y, 'kx', markersize=10, markeredgewidth=2)
plt.xlabel('$x$')
plt.ylabel('$y$')
sns.despine(trim=True);
Maximum upper interval#
Just like in the previous hands-on activity, assume that we have made some observations and that we have used them to do Gaussian process regression resulting in the point-predictive distribution:
where \(m_{n}(\mathbf{x})\) and \(\sigma^2_{n}(\mathbf{x})\) are the predictive mean and variance respectively. Here is the code for this:
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train_x = torch.from_numpy(X).float()
train_y = torch.from_numpy(Y).float()
model = ExactGP(train_x, train_y)
# It is not a good idea to train the model when we don't have enough data
# So we fix the hyperparameters to something reasonable
model.covar_module.base_kernel.lengthscale = 0.15
model.covar_module.outputscale = 4.0
model.likelihood.noise = 1e-4
model.eval()
x = torch.linspace(0, 1, 100)
plot_1d_regression(
x,
model,
f_true=f
);
/Users/ibilion/.pyenv/versions/3.11.6/lib/python3.11/site-packages/linear_operator/utils/cholesky.py:40: NumericalWarning: A not p.d., added jitter of 1.0e-06 to the diagonal
warnings.warn(
/Users/ibilion/.pyenv/versions/3.11.6/lib/python3.11/site-packages/linear_operator/utils/cholesky.py:40: NumericalWarning: A not p.d., added jitter of 1.0e-05 to the diagonal
warnings.warn(
The maximum upper interval is defined to be:
for some \(\psi \ge 0\). Note that here, we are using the predictive mean and variance. The parameter \(\psi\) controls your emphasis on exploitation and exploration. The choice \(\psi = 0\) is full-on exploitation. You are just looking at the predictive mean. The greater \(\psi\) is, the more emphasis you put on the predictive standard deviation, i.e., the more you try to explore. Okay, the information acquisition function depends only on the posterior mean, variance, and parameter \(\psi\). Let’s implement it:
def mui(m, sigma, ymax, psi=1.96):
"""The maximum upper interval acquisition function."""
return m + psi * sigma
Let’s write code that carries out Bayesian global optimization using the maximum upper interval as the information acquisition function.
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def plot_iaf(
x_star,
gpr,
alpha,
alpha_params={},
ax=None,
f_true=None
):
"""Plot the information acquisition function.
Arguments
x_star -- A set of points to plot on.
gpr -- A rained Gaussian process regression
object.
alpha -- The information acquisition function.
This assumed to be a function of the
posterior mean and standard deviation.
Keyword Arguments
ax -- An axes object to plot on.
f_true -- The true function - if available.
The evaluation of the information acquisition function
is as follows:
af_values = alpha(mu, sigma, y_max, **alpha_params)
"""
if ax is None:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_title(
", ".join(
f"{n}={k:.2f}"
for n, k in alpha_params.items()
)
)
m, v = plot_1d_regression(
x_star,
gpr,
ax=ax,
f_true=f_true,
num_samples=0
)
sigma = torch.sqrt(v)
af_values = alpha(m, sigma, Y.max(), **alpha_params)
next_id = torch.argmax(af_values)
next_x = x_star[next_id]
af_max = af_values[next_id]
ax2 = ax.twinx()
ax2.plot(x_star, af_values.detach(), color=sns.color_palette()[1])
ax2.set_ylabel(
'Maximum Upper Interval',
color=sns.color_palette()[1]
)
plt.setp(
ax2.get_yticklabels(),
color=sns.color_palette()[1]
)
ax2.plot(
next_x * np.ones(100),
torch.linspace(0, af_max.item(), 100),
color=sns.color_palette()[1],
linewidth=1
)
Visualize this information acquisition function:
plot_iaf(
x,
model,
mui,
alpha_params=dict(psi=0.0)
)
Questions#
Experiment with different values of \(\psi\).
When do you get exploration?
When do you get exploitation?
Bayesian global optimization with the maximum upper interval#
Let’s now run the Bayesian global optimization algorithm using the maximum upper interval as the information acquisition function. For convenience, I have written the following generic code for you:
def maximize(
f,
model,
X_design,
alpha,
alpha_params={},
max_it=10,
optimize=False,
plot=False,
**kwargs
):
"""Optimize a function using a limited number of evaluations.
Arguments
f -- The function to optimize.
gpr -- A Gaussian process model to use for representing
our state of knowledge.
X_design -- The set of candidate points for identifying the
maximum.
alpha -- The information acquisition function.
This assumed to be a function of the
posterior mean and standard deviation.
Keyword Arguments
alpha_params -- Extra parameters to the information
acquisition function.
max_it -- The maximum number of iterations.
optimize -- Whether or not to optimize the hyper-parameters.
plot -- Determines how often to plot. Make it one
to plot at each iteration. Make it max_it
to plot at the last iteration.
The rest of the keyword arguments are passed to plot_iaf().
"""
af_all = []
for count in range(max_it):
# Predict
f_design = model(X_design)
m = f_design.mean
sigma2 = f_design.variance
sigma = torch.sqrt(sigma2)
# Evaluate information acquisition function
y_train = model.train_targets.numpy()
af_values = alpha(
m,
sigma,
y_train.max(),
**alpha_params
)
# Find best point to include
i = torch.argmax(af_values)
af_all.append(af_values[i])
new_x = X_design[i:(i+1)].float()
new_y = f(new_x)
train_x = torch.cat([model.train_inputs[0], new_x[:, None]])
train_y = torch.cat([model.train_targets, new_y])
model.set_train_data(train_x, train_y, strict=False)
if optimize:
train(model, train_x, train_y, n_iter=100, lr=0.1)
else:
model.train()
model.eval()
# Plot if required
if count % plot == 0:
if "ax" in kwargs:
ax = kwargs[ax]
else:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
plot_iaf(
X_design,
model,
alpha,
alpha_params=alpha_params,
f_true=f,
ax=ax
)
ax.set_title(
f"N={count}, " + ax.get_title()
)
return af_all
The code accepts the information acquisition function as an input. Here is how you can use it:
train_x = torch.from_numpy(X).float()
train_y = torch.from_numpy(Y).float()
covar_module = ScaleKernel(RBFKernel())
model = ExactGP(train_x, train_y)
# It is not a good idea to train the model when we don't have enough data
# So we fix the hyperparameters to something reasonable
model.covar_module.base_kernel.lengthscale = 0.15
model.covar_module.outputscale = 4.0
model.likelihood.noise = 1e-4
model.eval()
# Run the algorithm
X_design = torch.linspace(0, 1, 100)
af_all = maximize(
f,
model,
X_design,
mui,
alpha_params=dict(psi=1.96),
max_it=5,
plot=1
)
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Questions#
Repeat the main algorithm using MUI for a \(\psi\) that exploits. Does the method converge?
Repeat the main algorithm using MUI for a \(\psi\) that explores. Does the method converge?