Why I don’t care about toy benchmarks in BO

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A lot of Bayesian optimization (BO) papers include experiments on “toy” functions. Examples of such toy functions are Ackley, Rosenbrock, Hartmann, and Branin. I basically ignore these experiments when I read papers and skip to the next section. When I review papers (and therefore cannot simply skip sections), I find my eyes glazing over and feel bored: I don’t care about these functions, don’t…

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