bsd-3-clauseSingh, Gurjeet Sangra2025-04-292024-02-232024-02-23https://datakatalogi.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/5229This upload archives the v1.0.4 release of PyBADS, as prepared for submission to the Jounral of Open Source Software (JOSS). PyBADS  is a Python implementation of the Bayesian Adaptive Direct Search (BADS) algorithm for solving difficult and mildly expensive optimization problems. BADS has been intensively tested for fitting a variety of computational models, and is currently being used in many computational labs around the world.Bayesian optimizationmachine learningblack-box optimizationcomputational statisticsprobabilistic modelinggaussian processessoftware