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Software effort estimation in the early stages of the software life cycle is one of the most essential and daunting tasks for project managers. In this research, a new model based on non-linear regression analysis is proposed to predict…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Ali Bou Nassif , Manar AbuTaleb , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Defect prediction models---classifiers that identify defect-prone software modules---have configurable parameters that control their characteristics (e.g., the number of trees in a random forest). Recent studies show that these classifiers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Shane McIntosh , Ahmed E. Hassan , Kenichi Matsumoto

Effort estimation is a key factor for software project success, defined as delivering software of agreed quality and functionality within schedule and budget. Traditionally, effort estimation has been used for planning and tracking project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Adam Trendowicz , Jürgen Münch , Ross Jeffery

Estimating the effort of software systems is an essential topic in software engineering, carrying out an estimation process reliably and accurately for a software forms a vital part of the software development phases. Many researchers have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Najla Akram , AL-Saati , Taghreed Riyadh Alreffaee

Many computer vision algorithms depend on a variety of parameter choices and settings that are typically hand-tuned in the course of evaluating the algorithm. While such parameter tuning is often presented as being incidental to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-25 J. Bergstra , D. Yamins , D. D. Cox

How to make software analytics simpler and faster? One method is to match the complexity of analysis to the intrinsic complexity of the data being explored. For example, hyperparameter optimizers find the control settings for data miners…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Amritanshu Agrawal , Xueqi Yang , Rishabh Agrawal , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

How can we make software analytics simpler and faster? One method is to match the complexity of analysis to the intrinsic complexity of the data being explored. For example, hyperparameter optimizers find the control settings for data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Amritanshu Agrawal , Xueqi Yang , Rishabh Agrawal , Rahul Yedida , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

Computational efficiency is an important consideration for deploying machine learning models for time series prediction in an online setting. Machine learning algorithms adjust model parameters automatically based on the data, but often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Hongyuan Zhan , Gabriel Gomes , Xiaoye S. Li , Kamesh Madduri , Kesheng Wu

The performance of optimization algorithms relies crucially on their parameterizations. Finding good parameter settings is called algorithm tuning. The sequential parameter optimization (SPOT) package for R is a toolbox for tuning and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Martin Zaefferer , Frederik Rehbach

Hyperparameters are configuration variables controlling the behavior of machine learning algorithms. They are ubiquitous in machine learning and artificial intelligence and the choice of their values determines the effectiveness of systems…

Policy optimization in reinforcement learning requires the selection of numerous hyperparameters across different environments. Fixing them incorrectly may negatively impact optimization performance leading notably to insufficient or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Jiancong Huang , Juan Rojas , Matthieu Zimmer , Hongmin Wu , Yisheng Guan , Paul Weng

The performance of many algorithms in the fields of hard combinatorial problem solving, machine learning or AI in general depends on tuned hyperparameter configurations. Automated methods have been proposed to alleviate users from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 André Biedenkapp , H. Furkan Bozkurt , Frank Hutter , Marius Lindauer

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated code optimization but struggle without performance context. This work introduces Opal, a modular framework that connects performance analytics insights with the vast body of published…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mohammad Zaeed , Tanzima Z. Islam , Vladimir Inđić

Hyperparameter optimisation (HPO) is crucial for achieving strong performance in reinforcement learning (RL), as RL algorithms are inherently sensitive to hyperparameter settings. Probabilistic Curriculum Learning (PCL) is a curriculum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Llewyn Salt , Marcus Gallagher

A Reinforcement Learning (RL) system depends on a set of initial conditions (hyperparameters) that affect the system's performance. However, defining a good choice of hyperparameters is a challenging problem. Hyperparameter tuning often…

Novel technologies in automated machine learning ease the complexity of algorithm selection and hyperparameter optimization. Hyperparameters are important for machine learning models as they significantly influence the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Mohamadjavad Bahmani , Radwa El Shawi , Nshan Potikyan , Sherif Sakr

Optimizing a machine learning pipeline for a task at hand requires careful configuration of various hyperparameters, typically supported by an AutoML system that optimizes the hyperparameters for the given training dataset. Yet, depending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Felix Neutatz , Marius Lindauer , Ziawasch Abedjan

The sequential parameter optimization (SPOT) package for R is a toolbox for tuning and understanding simulation and optimization algorithms. Model-based investigations are common approaches in simulation and optimization. Sequential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-25 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

Software development effort estimation is considered a fundamental task for software development life cycle as well as for managing project cost, time and quality. Therefore, accurate estimation is a substantial factor in projects success…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Nazeeh Ghatasheh , Hossam Faris , Ibrahim Aljarah , Rizik M. H. Al-Sayyed