AcquisitionFunctionIfc

An acquisition function scores a candidate point from the surrogate's posterior prediction and the current incumbent value. Larger is better: the acquisition optimizer maximizes it. All acquisition functions here are written for minimization of the objective.

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abstract fun value(prediction: SurrogateModelIfc.Prediction, incumbent: Double, bo: BayesianOptimizationSolver): Double

The acquisition value (larger is better) for a candidate.