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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).…
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The increasing demand for democratizing machine learning algorithms calls for hyperparameter optimization (HPO) solutions at low cost. Many machine learning algorithms have hyperparameters which can cause a large variation in the training…
Ensembling is commonly used in machine learning on tabular data to boost predictive performance and robustness, but larger ensembles often lead to increased hardware demand. We introduce HAPEns, a post-hoc ensembling method that explicitly…
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