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Deep learning models form one of the most powerful machine learning models for the extraction of important features. Most of the designs of deep neural models, i.e., the initialization of parameters, are still manually tuned. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mrittika Chakraborty , Wreetbhas Pal , Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , Ujjwal Maulik

While Deep Learning (DL) experts often have prior knowledge about which hyperparameter settings yield strong performance, only few Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) algorithms can leverage such prior knowledge and none incorporate priors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Soham Basu , Frank Hutter , Danny Stoll

Model-based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) is a promising framework for learning control in a data-efficient manner. MBRL algorithms can be fairly complex due to the separate dynamics modeling and the subsequent planning algorithm, and as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Baohe Zhang , Raghu Rajan , Luis Pineda , Nathan Lambert , André Biedenkapp , Kurtland Chua , Frank Hutter , Roberto Calandra

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

Machine learning algorithms have made remarkable achievements in the field of artificial intelligence. However, most machine learning algorithms are sensitive to the hyper-parameters. Manually optimizing the hyper-parameters is a common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Bozhou Chen , Kaixin Zhang , Longshen Ou , Chenmin Ba , Hongzhi Wang , Chunnan Wang

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

Automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has gained great popularity and is an important ingredient of most automated machine learning frameworks. The process of designing HPO algorithms, however, is still an unsystematic and manual…

Most of the machine learning models have associated hyper-parameters along with their parameters. While the algorithm gives the solution for parameters, its utility for model performance is highly dependent on the choice of hyperparameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shashank Shekhar , Adesh Bansode , Asif Salim

The performance of fine-tuning pre-trained language models largely depends on the hyperparameter configuration. In this paper, we investigate the performance of modern hyperparameter optimization methods (HPO) on fine-tuning pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Xueqing Liu , Chi Wang

Choosing a suitable ML model is a complex task that can depend on several objectives, e.g., accuracy, fairness, or energy consumption. In practice, this requires trading off multiple, often competing, objectives through multi-objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Daphne Theodorakopoulos , Marcel Wever , Marius Lindauer

This paper explores the use of foundational large language models (LLMs) in hyperparameter optimization (HPO). Hyperparameters are critical in determining the effectiveness of machine learning models, yet their optimization often relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Michael R. Zhang , Nishkrit Desai , Juhan Bae , Jonathan Lorraine , Jimmy Ba

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

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is generally treated as a bi-level optimization problem that involves fitting a (probabilistic) surrogate model to a set of observed hyperparameter responses, e.g. validation loss, and consequently…

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Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a core problem for the machine learning community and remains largely unsolved due to the significant computational resources required to evaluate hyperparameter configurations. As a result, a series of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Sebastian Pineda Arango , Hadi S. Jomaa , Martin Wistuba , Josif Grabocka

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is crucial for fine-tuning machine learning models but can be computationally expensive. To reduce costs, Multi-fidelity HPO (MF-HPO) leverages intermediate accuracy levels in the learning process and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Romain Egele , Isabelle Guyon , Yixuan Sun , Prasanna Balaprakash

Hyperparameter optimization plays a pivotal role in enhancing the predictive performance and generalization capabilities of ML models. However, in many applications, we do not only care about predictive performance but also about additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daphne Theodorakopoulos , Frederic Stahl , Marius Lindauer

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…

Zero-shot hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a simple yet effective use of transfer learning for constructing a small list of hyperparameter (HP) configurations that complement each other. That is to say, for any given dataset, at least…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-28 Fela Winkelmolen , Nikita Ivkin , H. Furkan Bozkurt , Zohar Karnin

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a vital step in improving performance in deep learning (DL). Practitioners are often faced with the trade-off between multiple criteria, such as accuracy and latency. Given the high computational needs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Shuhei Watanabe , Noor Awad , Masaki Onishi , Frank Hutter

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) aims to identify an optimal hyperparameter configuration (HPC) such that the resulting model generalizes well to unseen data. As the expected generalization error cannot be optimized directly, it is…

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