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Online Adaptive Kernel Mixing for Gaussian Process Decision Making

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are widely used as surrogates for black-box functions in sequential decision-making problems such as Bayesian optimization (BO), level set estimation (LSE), and Bayesian active learning (BAL). GP performance critically depends on kernels, and standard kernels can lead to suboptimal decisions under misspecification. To address this, we introduce HACK GPs (Hedge Adaptive Cumulative Kernels), a method that views kernel selection as an online learning with expert advice problem. HACK treats each candidate kernel as a GP "expert" and updates a distribution over experts onli

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