Add option to disable retrying on optimization warning

Summary:
When `gen_candidates` exists with an optimization warning, we retry with a new set of initial conditions. In certain settings, `gen_candidates_scipy` is expected to exit with an optimization warning. This allows turning off this behavior in such settings.

Example use case: When using straight through estimators for optimizing in mixed discrete search spaces, we often get `ABNORMAL_TERMINATION_IN_LNSRCH` since these gradients are a bit ill-behaved (due to function evaluations happening after rounding).

Reviewed By: esantorella

Differential Revision: D43478712

fbshipit-source-id: a1bfcbaaf387a46f38ded0b9802bb52cb1c8511f

botorch/optim/optimize.py

@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ class OptimizeAcqfInputs:
     ic_generator: Optional[TGenInitialConditions] = None
     timeout_sec: Optional[float] = None
     return_full_tree: bool = False
+    retry_on_optimization_warning: bool = True
     ic_gen_kwargs: Dict = dataclasses.field(default_factory=dict)
 
     @property
@@ -333,7 +334,7 @@ def _optimize_batch_candidates(
     optimization_warning_raised = any(
         (issubclass(w.category, OptimizationWarning) for w in ws)
     )
-    if optimization_warning_raised:
+    if optimization_warning_raised and opt_inputs.retry_on_optimization_warning:
         first_warn_msg = (
             "Optimization failed in `gen_candidates_scipy` with the following "
             f"warning(s):\n{[w.message for w in ws]}\nBecause you specified "
@@ -412,6 +413,7 @@ def optimize_acqf(
     ic_generator: Optional[TGenInitialConditions] = None,
     timeout_sec: Optional[float] = None,
     return_full_tree: bool = False,
+    retry_on_optimization_warning: bool = True,
     **ic_gen_kwargs: Any,
 ) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
     r"""Generate a set of candidates via multi-start optimization.
@@ -465,6 +467,8 @@ def optimize_acqf(
             for nonlinear inequality constraints.
         timeout_sec: Max amount of time optimization can run for.
         return_full_tree:
+        retry_on_optimization_warning: Whether to retry candidate generation with a new
+            set of initial conditions when it fails with an `OptimizationWarning`.
         ic_gen_kwargs: Additional keyword arguments passed to function specified by
             `ic_generator`
 
@@ -515,6 +519,7 @@ def optimize_acqf(
         ic_generator=ic_generator,
         timeout_sec=timeout_sec,
         return_full_tree=return_full_tree,
+        retry_on_optimization_warning=retry_on_optimization_warning,
         ic_gen_kwargs=ic_gen_kwargs,
     )
     return _optimize_acqf(opt_acqf_inputs)
@@ -568,6 +573,7 @@ def optimize_acqf_cyclic(
     ic_generator: Optional[TGenInitialConditions] = None,
     timeout_sec: Optional[float] = None,
     return_full_tree: bool = False,
+    retry_on_optimization_warning: bool = True,
     **ic_gen_kwargs: Any,
 ) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
     r"""Generate a set of `q` candidates via cyclic optimization.
@@ -605,6 +611,8 @@ def optimize_acqf_cyclic(
             for nonlinear inequality constraints.
         timeout_sec: Max amount of time optimization can run for.
         return_full_tree:
+        retry_on_optimization_warning: Whether to retry candidate generation with a new
+            set of initial conditions when it fails with an `OptimizationWarning`.
         ic_gen_kwargs: Additional keyword arguments passed to function specified by
             `ic_generator`
 
@@ -645,6 +653,7 @@ def optimize_acqf_cyclic(
         ic_generator=ic_generator,
         timeout_sec=timeout_sec,
         return_full_tree=return_full_tree,
+        retry_on_optimization_warning=retry_on_optimization_warning,
         ic_gen_kwargs=ic_gen_kwargs,
     )
 

test/optim/test_optimize.py

@@ -520,6 +520,9 @@ def test_optimize_acqf_successfully_restarts_on_opt_failure(self):
         condition that causes failure in the first run of
         `gen_candidates_scipy`, then re-tries with a new starting point and
         succeed.
+
+        Also tests that this can be turned off by setting
+        `retry_on_optimization_warning = False`.
         """
         num_restarts, raw_samples, dim = 1, 1, 1
 
@@ -558,6 +561,28 @@ def test_optimize_acqf_successfully_restarts_on_opt_failure(self):
         # check if it succeeded on restart -- the maximum value of sin(1/x) is 1
         self.assertAlmostEqual(acq_value_list.item(), 1.0)
 
+        # Test with retry_on_optimization_warning = False.
+        torch.manual_seed(5)
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as ws:
+            batch_candidates, acq_value_list = optimize_acqf(
+                acq_function=SinOneOverXAcqusitionFunction(),
+                bounds=bounds,
+                q=1,
+                num_restarts=num_restarts,
+                raw_samples=raw_samples,
+                # shorten the line search to make it faster and make failure
+                # more likely
+                options={"maxls": 2},
+                retry_on_optimization_warning=False,
+            )
+        expected_warning_raised = any(
+            (
+                issubclass(w.category, RuntimeWarning) and message in str(w.message)
+                for w in ws
+            )
+        )
+        self.assertFalse(expected_warning_raised)
+
     def test_optimize_acqf_warns_on_second_opt_failure(self):
         """
         Test that `optimize_acqf` warns if it fails on a second optimization try.