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We give a simple, fast algorithm for hyperparameter optimization inspired by techniques from the analysis of Boolean functions. We focus on the high-dimensional regime where the canonical example is training a neural network with a large…

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Deep Learning Recommendation Model(DLRM)s utilize the embedding layer to represent various categorical features. Traditional DLRMs adopt unified embedding size for all features, leading to suboptimal performance and redundant parameters.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-13 He Wei , Yuekui Yang , Yang Zhang , Haiyang Wu , Meixi Liu , Shaoping Ma

Convolutional Neural Network is known as ConvNet have been extensively used in many complex machine learning tasks. However, hyperparameters optimization is one of a crucial step in developing ConvNet architectures, since the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Pushparaja Murugan

A number of popular transfer learning methods rely on grid search to select regularization hyperparameters that control over-fitting. This grid search requirement has several key disadvantages: the search is computationally expensive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ethan Harvey , Mikhail Petrov , Michael C. Hughes

Hyperparameter optimization is an important subfield of machine learning that focuses on tuning the hyperparameters of a chosen algorithm to achieve peak performance. Recently, there has been a stream of methods that tackle the issue of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Arlind Kadra , Maciej Janowski , Martin Wistuba , Josif Grabocka

One-shot decision making is required in situations in which we can evaluate a fixed number of solution candidates but do not have any possibility for further, adaptive sampling. Such settings are frequently encountered in neural network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Jakob Bossek , Pascal Kerschke , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Carola Doerr

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a critical component of machine learning pipelines, significantly affecting model robustness, stability, and generalization. However, HPO is often a time-consuming and computationally intensive task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Ruinan Wang , Ian Nabney , Mohammad Golbabaee

With the advent of automated machine learning, automated hyperparameter optimization methods are by now routinely used in data mining. However, this progress is not yet matched by equal progress on automatic analyses that yield information…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-30 J. N. van Rijn , F. Hutter

Hyperparameters play a critical role in machine learning. Hyperparameter tuning can make the difference between state-of-the-art and poor prediction performance for any algorithm, but it is particularly challenging for structure learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Damian Machlanski , Spyridon Samothrakis , Paul Clarke

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have gained great success in many artificial intelligence tasks. However, finding a good set of hyperparameters for a CNN remains a challenging task. It usually takes an expert with deep knowledge, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Xueli Xiao , Ming Yan , Sunitha Basodi , Chunyan Ji , Yi Pan

Well-tuned hyperparameters are crucial for obtaining good generalization behavior in neural networks. They can enforce appropriate inductive biases, regularize the model and improve performance -- especially in the presence of limited data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Bruno Mlodozeniec , Matthias Reisser , Christos Louizos

Hyper-parameter optimization is crucial for pushing the accuracy of a deep learning model to its limits. A hyper-parameter optimization job, referred to as a study, involves numerous trials of training a model using different training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ahnjae Shin , Do Yoon Kim , Joo Seong Jeong , Byung-Gon Chun

Massive data analysis becomes increasingly prevalent, subsampling methods like BLB (Bag of Little Bootstraps) serves as powerful tools for assessing the quality of estimators for massive data. However, the performance of the subsampling…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-14 Yingying Ma , Hansheng Wang

Over-prompting, a phenomenon where excessive examples in prompts lead to diminished performance in Large Language Models (LLMs), challenges the conventional wisdom about in-context few-shot learning. To investigate this few-shot dilemma, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yongjian Tang , Doruk Tuncel , Christian Koerner , Thomas Runkler

We introduce the hyperparameter search problem in the field of machine learning and discuss its main challenges from an optimization perspective. Machine learning methods attempt to build models that capture some element of interest based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Marc Claesen , Bart De Moor

Adapting large language models (LLMs) to specific domains often faces a critical bottleneck: the scarcity of high-quality, human-curated data. While large volumes of unchecked data are readily available, indiscriminately using them for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jian Wu , Hang Yu , Bingchang Liu , Wenjie Yang , Peng Di , Jianguo Li , Yue Zhang

As a crucial component of most modern deep recommender systems, feature embedding maps high-dimensional sparse user/item features into low-dimensional dense embeddings. However, these embeddings are usually assigned a unified dimension,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Liang Qu , Yonghong Ye , Ningzhi Tang , Lixin Zhang , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

A grid search, at the cost of training and testing a large number of models, is an effective way to optimize the prediction performance of deep learning models. A challenging task concerning grid search is the time management. Without a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xia Jiang , Yijun Zhou , Chuhan Xu , Adam Brufsky , Alan Wells

Mini-batch sub-sampling (MBSS) is favored in deep neural network training to reduce the computational cost. Still, it introduces an inherent sampling error, making the selection of appropriate learning rates challenging. The sampling errors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-25 Younghwan Chae , Daniel N. Wilke , Dominic Kafka

Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization has earned a widespread popularity in the context of few-shot meta-learning, but remains broadly impractical for tasks with long horizons (many gradient steps), due to memory scaling and gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Paul Micaelli , Amos Storkey