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We introduce ordered transfer hyperparameter optimisation (OTHPO), a version of transfer learning for hyperparameter optimisation (HPO) where the tasks follow a sequential order. Unlike for state-of-the-art transfer HPO, the assumption is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Sigrid Passano Hellan , Huibin Shen , François-Xavier Aubet , David Salinas , Aaron Klein

Machine learning algorithms have been used widely in various applications and areas. To fit a machine learning model into different problems, its hyper-parameters must be tuned. Selecting the best hyper-parameter configuration for machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Li Yang , Abdallah Shami

In a previous work we introduced, in the context of gravitational wave science, an initial study on an automated domain-decomposition approach for reduced basis through hp-greedy refinement. The approach constructs local reduced bases of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Franco Cerino , Andrés Diaz-Pace , Emmanuel Tassone , Manuel Tiglio , Atuel Villegas

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

Hyperparameters play a critical role in the performances of many machine learning methods. Determining their best settings or Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) faces difficulties presented by the large number of hyperparameters as well as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 Yang Yang , Ke Deng , Michael Zhu

At the forefront of state-of-the-art human alignment methods are preference optimization methods (*PO). Prior research has often concentrated on identifying the best-performing method, typically involving a grid search over hyperparameters,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Kian Ahrabian , Xihui Lin , Barun Patra , Vishrav Chaudhary , Alon Benhaim , Jay Pujara , Xia Song

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a common approach for hyperparameter optimization (HPO) in automated machine learning. Although it is well-accepted that HPO is crucial to obtain well-performing machine learning models, tuning BO's own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Marius Lindauer , Matthias Feurer , Katharina Eggensperger , André Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter

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

To learn models or features that generalize across tasks and domains is one of the grand goals of machine learning. In this paper, we propose to use cross-domain, cross-task data as validation objective for hyper-parameter optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Tonmoy Saikia , Thomas Brox , Cordelia Schmid

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a billion-dollar problem in machine learning, which significantly impacts the training efficiency and model performance. However, achieving efficient and robust HPO in deep reinforcement learning (RL) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Mingqi Yuan , Bo Li , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng

A surrogate model based hyperparameter tuning approach for deep learning is presented. This article demonstrates how the architecture-level parameters (hyperparameters) of deep learning models that were implemented in Keras/tensorflow can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Frederik Rehbach , Amrita Sen , Martin Zaefferer

Hyperparameter optimization in machine learning (ML) deals with the problem of empirically learning an optimal algorithm configuration from data, usually formulated as a black-box optimization problem. In this work, we propose a zero-shot…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-07 Pieter Gijsbers , Florian Pfisterer , Jan N. van Rijn , Bernd Bischl , Joaquin Vanschoren

Global optimization of expensive, derivative-free black-box functions requires extreme sample efficiency. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is the current state-of-the-art, its performance hinges on surrogate and acquisition function…

Despite all the benefits of automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO), most modern HPO algorithms are black-boxes themselves. This makes it difficult to understand the decision process which leads to the selected configuration, reduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Julia Moosbauer , Giuseppe Casalicchio , Marius Lindauer , Bernd Bischl

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is increasingly used to automatically tune the predictive performance (e.g., accuracy) of machine learning models. However, in a plethora of real-world applications, accuracy is only one of the multiple --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-25 Robin Schmucker , Michele Donini , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , David Salinas , Cédric Archambeau

An open problem in differentially private deep learning is hyperparameter optimization (HPO). DP-SGD introduces new hyperparameters and complicates existing ones, forcing researchers to painstakingly tune hyperparameters with hundreds of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ashwinee Panda , Xinyu Tang , Saeed Mahloujifar , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Hyper-parameters optimization (HPO) is vital for machine learning models. Besides model accuracy, other tuning intentions such as model training time and energy consumption are also worthy of attention from data analytic service providers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hui Dou , Shanshan Zhu , Yiwen Zhang , Pengfei Chen , Zibin Zheng

There has been a growing interest in off-policy evaluation in the literature such as recommender systems and personalized medicine. We have so far seen significant progress in developing estimators aimed at accurately estimating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuta Saito , Masahiro Nomura

Recent empirical work shows that inconsistent results based on choice of hyperparameter optimization (HPO) configuration are a widespread problem in ML research. When comparing two algorithms J and K searching one subspace can yield the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 A. Feder Cooper , Yucheng Lu , Jessica Zosa Forde , Christopher De Sa

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) and neural architecture search (NAS) are methods of choice to obtain the best-in-class machine learning models, but in practice they can be costly to run. When models are trained on large datasets, tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Ondrej Bohdal , Lukas Balles , Martin Wistuba , Beyza Ermis , Cédric Archambeau , Giovanni Zappella