OpenBox: A Generalized Black-box Optimization Service

Understand

Black-box optimization (BBO) has a broad range of applications, including automatic machine learning, engineering, physics, and experimental design.

• However, it remains a challenge for users to apply BBO methods to their problems at hand with existing software packages, in terms of applicability, performance, and efficiency.
• In this paper, we build OpenBox, an open-source and general-purpose BBO service with improved usability.
• The modular design behind OpenBox also facilitates flexible abstraction and optimization of basic BBO components that are common in other existing systems.