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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Universite DE Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CA;
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Governing Council of the Univ. of Toronto, the, Toronto, CA;
Ryan P. Adams, Somerville, MA (US);
Roland Jasper Snoek, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hugo Larochelle, Sherbrooke, CA;
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Socpra Sciences ET Genie S.E.C., Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA;
The Governing Council of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Techniques for use in connection with performing optimization using an objective function. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: beginning evaluation of the objective function at a first point; before evaluating the objective function at the first point is completed: identifying, based on likelihoods of potential outcomes of evaluating the objective function at the first point, a second point different from the first point at which to evaluate the objective function; and beginning evaluation of the objective function at the second point.