Combining Constraint Solving and Bayesian Techniques for System Optimization

Combining Constraint Solving and Bayesian Techniques for System Optimization

Franz Brauße, Zurab Khasidashvili, Konstantin Korovin

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 1788-1794. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/249

Application domains of Bayesian optimization include optimizing black-box functions or very complex functions. The functions we are interested in describe complex real-world systems applied in industrial settings. Even though they do have explicit representations, standard optimization techniques fail to provide validated solutions and correctness guarantees for them. In this paper we present a combination of Bayesian optimization and SMT-based constraint solving to achieve safe and stable solutions with optimality guarantees.
Keywords:
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization: Constraint Optimization
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization: Constraints and Machine Learning
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization: Satisfiabilty
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization: Solvers and Tools
Machine Learning: Optimisation