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SILO: Bayesian Preference Exploration: Making Optimization Accessible to Non-Experts

Abstract: Optimization problems are everywhere — routing trucks, buying groceries, building a datacenter.  Yet optimization methodology is hard to use. It requires the user to write down their objective and constraints as mathematical functions.  In practice, the objective and constraints are unknown and must be tuned iteratively. An expert presents …