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Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

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Re: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

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post #10

A related service currently in beta: https://indiesolver.com/access

This site was forbidden to look at from the company I'm working in?

Thanks for reporting! The site is hosted on Google Cloud Platform. If some of GCP's IPs are banned in your company, then it might be the reason.

Re: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

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Okay, this is awesome (and easy to miss with a just a cursory skim): "5.3 Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies Vizier is also used to solve complex black–box optimization problems arising from physical design or logistical problems. Here we present an example that highlights some additional capabilities of the system: finding the most delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe from a parameterized space of recipes... We prov…

Did they post the recipe?

Re: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

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post #9

Totally calling the next GCP AI Service: VaaS (Vizier as a Service)

I know a guy who told me 8 years ago about an idea he had for a "black box" optimization consulting service. You give him a pile of data, he uses ML to optimize for whatever.

Re: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

#16

Okay, this is awesome (and easy to miss with a just a cursory skim): "5.3 Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies Vizier is also used to solve complex black–box optimization problems arising from physical design or logistical problems. Here we present an example that highlights some additional capabilities of the system: finding the most delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe from a parameterized space of recipes... We prov…

It's great that they published this - I wasn't sure if I could share this externally. I see they left the ingredient that really improved the scores unexpectedly out, presumbly for proprietary reasons.

Re: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

#17

Okay, this is awesome (and easy to miss with a just a cursory skim): "5.3 Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies Vizier is also used to solve complex black–box optimization problems arising from physical design or logistical problems. Here we present an example that highlights some additional capabilities of the system: finding the most delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe from a parameterized space of recipes... We prov…

Did they post the recipe?

They didn't.

I am very disappointed. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords and also want to try their chocolate chip cookies.

Re: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

#18

Okay, this is awesome (and easy to miss with a just a cursory skim): "5.3 Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies Vizier is also used to solve complex black–box optimization problems arising from physical design or logistical problems. Here we present an example that highlights some additional capabilities of the system: finding the most delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe from a parameterized space of recipes... We prov…

Good application for Ben Krasnow's Cookie Perfection machine - http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2014/01/cookie-perfection-mac...

Re: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization

#19
post #16

Okay, this is awesome (and easy to miss with a just a cursory skim): "5.3 Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies Vizier is also used to solve complex black–box optimization problems arising from physical design or logistical problems. Here we present an example that highlights some additional capabilities of the system: finding the most delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe from a parameterized space of recipes... We prov…

It's great that they published this - I wasn't sure if I could share this externally. I see they left the ingredient that really improved the scores unexpectedly out, presumbly for proprietary reasons.

Weed?
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