Javad Azimi: PhD Proposal Bayesian Optimization with Empirical Constraints (PhD Proposal)
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This work is motivated by the experimental design problem of optimizing the power output of nano-enhanced microbial fuel cells. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) (Bond and Lovley, 2003; Fan et al., 2007; Park and Zeikus, 2003; Reguera, 2005) use micro-organisms to break down organic matter and generate electricity. For a particular MFC design, it is critical to optimize the biological energetics and the microbial/electrode interface of the system, which research has shown to depend strongly on the surface properties of the anodes (Park and Zeikus, 2003; Reguera, 2005). This motivates the design of nano-enhanced anodes, where nano-structures (e.g. carbon nano-wire) are grown on the anode surface to improve the MFC’s power output. Unfortunately, there is little understanding of the interaction between various possible nano-enhancements and MFC capabilities for different micro-organisms. Thus, optimizing anode design for a particular application is largely guess work. Our goal is to develop algorithms to aid this process. Bayesian optimization (Jones, 2001a; Brochu et al., 2009) has been widely used for experimental design problems where the goal is to optimize an unknown function f(·), that is costly to evaluate. In general, we are interested in finding the point x∗ ∈ X d ⊂ Rd such that: x∗ = argmax x∈X d f(x), (1)
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تاریخ انتشار 2012