While many excellent packages for BO exist, we choose Meta's (formerly Facebook) Adaptive Experimentation (Ax) platform for "its relative easeof-use, modularity, developer support, and model sophistication" and refer to this as Ax. We refer readers interested in learning advanced optimization topics to the official Ax tutorials () and to a set of tutorials geared towards chemistry and materials science (ht tps://github.com/sparks-baird/self-drivi ng-lab-demo/blob/main/notebooks/README.md) via a minimal working example for autonomous scientific discovery .