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Hyper-parameters (HPs) are an important part of machine learning (ML) model development and can greatly influence performance. This paper studies their behavior for three algorithms: Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), Random Forest (RF), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Anwesha Bhattacharyya , Joel Vaughan , Vijayan N. Nair

Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) of Deep Learning-based models tends to be a compute resource intensive process as it usually requires to train the target model with many different hyperparameter configurations. We show that integrating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Juan Pablo García Amboage , Eric Wulff , Maria Girone , Tomás F. Pena

We study a budgeted hyper-parameter tuning problem, where we optimize the tuning result under a hard resource constraint. We propose to solve it as a sequential decision making problem, such that we can use the partial training progress of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Zhiyun Lu , Chao-Kai Chiang , Fei Sha

\noindent Hyper-parameter selection is a central practical problem in modern machine learning, governing regularization strength, model capacity, and robustness choices. Cross-validation is often computationally prohibitive at scale, while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-24 Hedibert Lopes , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

Hyper-parameters of time series models play an important role in time series analysis. Slight differences in hyper-parameters might lead to very different forecast results for a given model, and therefore, selecting good hyper-parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Peiyi Zhang , Xiaodong Jiang , Ginger M Holt , Nikolay Pavlovich Laptev , Caner Komurlu , Peng Gao , Yang Yu

In this paper, we describe the hyper-parameter search problem in the field of machine learning and present a heuristic approach in an attempt to tackle it. In most learning algorithms, a set of hyper-parameters must be determined before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Wei Hao Khoong

The task of hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) is burdened with heavy computational costs due to the intractability of optimizing both a model's weights and its hyper-parameters simultaneously. In this work, we introduce a new class of HPO…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mathieu Tuli , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) can support practitioners to obtain peak performance in machine learning models. However, there is often a lack of valuable insights into the effects of different hyperparameters on the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Julia Moosbauer , Julia Herbinger , Giuseppe Casalicchio , Marius Lindauer , Bernd Bischl

Machine learning is a powerful method for modeling in different fields such as education. Its capability to accurately predict students' success makes it an ideal tool for decision-making tasks related to higher education. The accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Leila Zahedi , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Shabnam Rezapour , Matthew W. Ohland , M. Hadi Amini

Automated machine learning aims to automate the whole process of machine learning, including model configuration. In this paper, we focus on automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) based on sequential model-based optimization (SMBO).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Ying Wei , Peilin Zhao , Huaxiu Yao , Junzhou Huang

Reward shaping in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for complex tasks remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often fail to find optimal solutions or cannot efficiently handle such tasks. We propose HYPRL, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tzu-Han Hsu , Arshia Rafieioskouei , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Bayesian Optimization is a popular tool for tuning algorithms in automatic machine learning (AutoML) systems. Current state-of-the-art methods leverage Random Forests or Gaussian processes to build a surrogate model that predicts algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Jeroen van Hoof , Joaquin Vanschoren

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

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is an important step in machine learning (ML) model development, but common practices are archaic -- primarily relying on manual or grid searches. This is partly because adopting advanced HPO algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Sungduk Yu , Mike Pritchard , Po-Lun Ma , Balwinder Singh , Sam Silva

The hyperparameter optimization of neural network can be expressed as a bilevel optimization problem. The bilevel optimization is used to automatically update the hyperparameter, and the gradient of the hyperparameter is the approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shuo Yang , Yang Jiao , Shaoyu Dou , Mana Zheng , Chen Zhu

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…

Offline model-based optimization (MBO) seeks to discover high-performing designs using only a fixed dataset of past evaluations. Most existing methods rely on learning a surrogate model via regression and implicitly assume that good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shen-Huan Lyu , Rong-Xi Tan , Ke Xue , Yi-Xiao He , Yu Huang , Qingfu Zhang , Chao Qian

In the literature on hyper-parameter tuning, a number of recent solutions rely on low-fidelity observations (e.g., training with sub-sampled datasets) in order to efficiently identify promising configurations to be then tested via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Pedro Mendes , Maria Casimiro , Paolo Romano , David Garlan

Solving optimization problems with unknown parameters often requires learning a predictive model to predict the values of the unknown parameters and then solving the problem using these values. Recent work has shown that including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Kai Wang , Bryan Wilder , Andrew Perrault , Milind Tambe

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for deriving control policies for complex systems. As we show in two control problems, the derived policies from using the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Deep Q-Network (DQN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Jan de Priester , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Nathan van de Wouw