Maintenance Release, SCoreBO

Compatibility

• Reqire Python >= 3.10 (#2293).

New Features

• SCoreBO and Bayesian Active Learning acquisition functions (#2163).

Bug Fixes

• Fix non-None constraint noise levels in some constrained test problems (#2241).
• Fix inverse cost-weighted utility behaviour for non-positive acquisition values (#2297).

Other Changes

• Don't allow unused keyword arguments in Model.construct_inputs (#2186).
• Re-map task values in MTGP if they are not contiguous integers starting from zero (#2230).
• Unify ModelList and ModelListGP subset_output behavior (#2231).
• Ensure mean and interior_point of LinearEllipticalSliceSampler have correct shapes (#2245).
• Speed up task covariance of LCEMGP (#2260).
• Improvements to batch_cross_validation, support for model init kwargs (#2269).
• Support custom all_tasks for MTGPs (#2271).
• Error out if scipy optimizer does not support bounds / constraints (#2282).
• Support diagonal covariance root with fixed indices for LinearEllipticalSliceSampler (#2283).
• Make qNIPV a subclass of AcquisitionFunction rather than AnalyticAcquisitionFunction (#2286).
• Increase code-sharing of LCEMGP & define construct_inputs (#2291).

Deprecations

• Remove deprecated args from base MCSampler (#2228).
• Remove deprecated botorch/generation/gen/minimize (#2229).
• Remove fit_gpytorch_model (#2250).
• Remove requires_grad_ctx (#2252).
• Remove base_samples argument of GPyTorchPosterior.rsample (#2254).
• Remove deprecated mvn argument to GPyTorchPosterior (#2255).
• Remove deprecated Posterior.event_shape (#2320).
• Remove **kwargs & deprecated indices argument of Round transform (#2321).
• Remove Standardize.load_state_dict (#2322).
• Remove FixedNoiseMultiTaskGP (#2323).