Geometric Generalisation of Surrogate Model-Based Optimisation to Combinatorial and Program Spaces

Figure 1

Example of a function (solid line) obtained as a weighted sum of three Gaussian functions (dashed lines) on the real line: the weighting factors 𝑤₁, 𝑤₂, and 𝑤₃ are 0.5, 1, and 1, respectively.