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Finding the best configuration of algorithms' hyperparameters for a given optimization problem is an important task in evolutionary computation. We compare in this work the results of four different hyperparameter tuning approaches for a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Furong Ye , Carola Doerr , Hao Wang , Thomas Bäck

Finding the optimally performing configuration of a software system for a given setting is often challenging. Recent approaches address this challenge by learning performance models based on a sample set of configurations. However, building…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Vivek Nair , Tim Menzies , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel

Distributed analytics engines such as Spark are a common choice for processing extremely large datasets. However, finding good configurations for these systems remains challenging, with each workload potentially requiring a different setup…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ayat Fekry , Lucian Carata , Thomas Pasquier , Andrew Rice , Andy Hopper

Modern distributed storage systems come with aplethora of configurable parameters that controlmodule behavior and affect system performance. Default settings provided by developers are often suboptimal for specific user cases. Tuning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Wenhao Lyu , Youyou Lu , Jiwu Shu , Wei Zhao

Tuning a database system to achieve optimal performance on a given workload is a long-standing problem in the database community. A number of recent works have leveraged ML-based approaches to guide the sampling of large parameter spaces…

Configuring stream processing systems for efficient performance, especially in cloud-native deployments, is a challenging and largely manual task. We present an experiment-driven approach for automated configuration optimization that…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-05 David Chen , Sören Henning , Kassiano Matteussi , Rick Rabiser

In recent years, many techniques have been developed to improve the performance and efficiency of data center networks. While these techniques provide high accuracy, they are often designed using heuristics that leverage domain-specific…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Christopher Streiffer , Huan Chen , Theophilus Benson , Asim Kadav

NoSQL databases have become an important component of many big data and real-time web applications. Their distributed nature and scalability make them an ideal data storage repository for a variety of use cases. While NoSQL databases are…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Florian Eppinger , Uta Störl

Autotuning plays a pivotal role in optimizing the performance of systems, particularly in large-scale cloud deployments. One of the main challenges in performing autotuning in the cloud arises from performance variability. We first…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Johannes Freischuetz , Konstantinos Kanellis , Brian Kroth , Shivaram Venkataraman

Finding the right cloud configuration for workloads is an essential step to ensure good performance and contain running costs. A poor choice of cloud configuration decreases application performance and increases running cost significantly.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Chin-Jung Hsu , Vivek Nair , Tim Menzies , Vincent W. Freeh

Machine learning (ML) systems expose a rapidly expanding configuration space spanning model-parallelism strategies, communication optimizations, and low-level runtime parameters. End-to-end system efficiency is highly sensitive to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jimmy Shong , Yuhan Ding , Yihan Jiang , Liheng Jing , Haonan Chen , Gaokai Zhang , Aditya Akella , Fan Lai

One way to speed up the algorithm configuration task is to use short runs instead of long runs as much as possible, but without discarding the configurations that eventually do well on the long runs. We consider the problem of selecting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Daniel Karapetyan , Andrew J. Parkes , Thomas Stützle

Automatically tuning software configuration for optimizing a single performance attribute (e.g., minimizing latency) is not trivial, due to the nature of the configuration systems (e.g., complex landscape and expensive measurement). To deal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Tao Chen , Miqing Li

Heterogeneous computing systems provide high performance and energy efficiency. However, to optimally utilize such systems, solutions that distribute the work across host CPUs and accelerating devices are needed. In this paper, we present a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Suejb Memeti , Sabri Pllana

Modern software systems are usually highly configurable, providing users with customized functionality through various configuration options. Understanding how system performance varies with different option combinations is important to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jiezhu Cheng , Cuiyun Gao , Zibin Zheng

Though numerous solvers have been proposed for the MaxSAT problem, and the benchmark environment such as MaxSAT Evaluations provides a platform for the comparison of the state-of-the-art solvers, existing assessments were usually evaluated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Furong Ye , Chuan Luo , Shaowei Cai

HPC systems expose many configuration parameters that jointly drive competing objectives. Existing tools such as autotuners recommend good configurations but do not identify minimal changes for a near-miss configuration to meet a…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ankur Lahiry , Banooqa Banday , Yugesh Bhattarai , Mohammad Zaeed , Tanzima Z. Islam

To automatically tune configurations for the best possible system performance (e.g., runtime or throughput), much work has been focused on designing intelligent heuristics in a tuner. However, existing tuner designs have mostly ignored the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Gangda Xiong , Tao Chen

In software engineering, the meticulous configuration of software tools is crucial in ensuring optimal performance within intricate systems. However, the complexity inherent in selecting optimal configurations is exacerbated by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jai Kannan

Over the last decade, research on automated parameter tuning, often referred to as automatic algorithm configuration (AAC), has made significant progress. Although the usefulness of such tools has been widely recognized in real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Shengcai Liu , Ke Tang , Yunwen Lei , Xin Yao