The level set estimation problem seeks to identify regions within a set of candidate points where an unknown and costly to evaluate function’s value exceeds a specified threshold, providing an efficient alternative to exhaustive evaluations of function values. Traditional methods often use sequential optimization strategies to find \(\epsilon \) -accurate solutions, which permit a margin around the threshold contour but frequently lack effective stopping criteria, leading to excessive exploration and inefficiencies. This paper introduces an acquisition strategy for level set estimation that incorporates a stopping criterion, ensuring the algorithm halts when further exploration is unlikely to yield improvements, thereby reducing unnecessary function evaluations. We theoretically prove that our method satisfies \(\epsilon \) -accuracy with a confidence level of \(1 - \delta \) , addressing a key gap in existing approaches. Furthermore, we show that this also leads to guarantees on the lower bounds of performance metrics such as F-score. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed acquisition function achieves comparable precision to existing methods while confirming that the stopping criterion effectively terminates the algorithm once adequate exploration is completed.

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An \((\epsilon ,\delta )\) -Accurate Level Set Estimation with a Stopping Criterion

  • Hideaki Ishibashi,
  • Kota Matsui,
  • Kentaro Kutsukake,
  • Hideitsu Hino

摘要

The level set estimation problem seeks to identify regions within a set of candidate points where an unknown and costly to evaluate function’s value exceeds a specified threshold, providing an efficient alternative to exhaustive evaluations of function values. Traditional methods often use sequential optimization strategies to find \(\epsilon \) -accurate solutions, which permit a margin around the threshold contour but frequently lack effective stopping criteria, leading to excessive exploration and inefficiencies. This paper introduces an acquisition strategy for level set estimation that incorporates a stopping criterion, ensuring the algorithm halts when further exploration is unlikely to yield improvements, thereby reducing unnecessary function evaluations. We theoretically prove that our method satisfies \(\epsilon \) -accuracy with a confidence level of \(1 - \delta \) , addressing a key gap in existing approaches. Furthermore, we show that this also leads to guarantees on the lower bounds of performance metrics such as F-score. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed acquisition function achieves comparable precision to existing methods while confirming that the stopping criterion effectively terminates the algorithm once adequate exploration is completed.