About us

PyBADS is an open-source Python software for sample-efficient optimization.

Work on the PyBADS package is supported by the Research Council of Finland (grants 356498 and 358980 to Luigi Acerbi) and its Flagship programme: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI.

Development team

PyBADS is developed by members (past and current) of the Machine and Human Intelligence Group at the University of Helsinki and ELLIS Institute Finland. Starting from version 1.1, development of PyBADS has been assisted by coding agents, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5.

Core developers

In order of joining:

• Luigi Acerbi, University of Helsinki

• Gurjeet Singh, University of Geneva

Join the team

If you are interested in contributing to PyBADS please see the instructions for developers and contributors for general development guidelines. We welcome pull requests, bug reports, feature requests, etc. For other opportunities to work with us please see the homepage for the Machine and Human Intelligence Group, or contact the lab’s Principal Investigator at luigi.acerbi@helsinki.fi.