Acquisition jitter?

[harrytianyz]

I think in previous versions GPyOpt allowed users to tune the parameter acqusition_jitter, which is the degree of exploration of the acquisitions function. In the current version acquisition_jitter is removed and can only be used for modular Bayesian Opitimization.

Does anyone know why they removed it? And also can I still tune jitter without using modular Bayesian Optimization?

[apaleyes]

As far as I am aware it wasn't removed, you would still pass it as a named argument to BayesianOptimization object. Does this give you an error, or is there any other reason you think it was removed?

[harrytianyz]

In the documentationm jitter is no longer one of the parameters: [https://gpyopt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GPyOpt.methods.html].. If I do pass it as argument there is no error, but I don't think it does anything either...

[apaleyes]

Ah, i see. That must be a side effect of some refactoring we did a while ago, when we separated code that handles optional parameters like that. I'll have a little think of how to bring this part of docs back. But I am pretty sure this parameter is still supported.