[alicez]

Great idea. Will run some experiments to see how it performs. It sounds analogous to kmeans++ initialization. Sobol sequences ring a bell. Some of the Bayesian optimization software libraries may in fact use a Sobol sequence of initial evaluations. But it may not be well documented.

[doobwa]

Spearmint, for example: https://github.com/JasperSnoek/spearmint/blob/master/spearmi...