OpenBox: A Python Toolkit for Generalized Black-box Optimization

Black-box optimization (BBO) has a broad range of applications, including automatic machine learning, experimental design, and database knob tuning. However, users still face challenges when applying BBO methods to their problems at hand with existing software packages in terms of applicability, performance, and efficiency. This paper presents OpenBox, an open-source BBO toolkit with improved usability. It implements user-friendly interfaces and visualization for users to define and manage their tasks. The modular design behind OpenBox facilitates its flexible deployment in existing systems. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of OpenBox over existing systems. The source code of OpenBox is available at https://github.com/PKU-DAIR/open-box. [abs] [ pdf ][ bib ] [ code ] &copy JMLR 2024. ( edit, beta )

Authors

• Huaijun Jiang
• Yu Shen Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, China Kuaishou Technology, China
• Yang Li
• Beicheng Xu Peking University
• Sixian Du
• Wentao Zhang Peking University
• Ce Zhang Carnegie Mellon University
• Bin Cui

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