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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

The performance of any Machine Learning (ML) algorithm is impacted by the choice of its hyperparameters. As training and evaluating a ML algorithm is usually expensive, the hyperparameter optimization (HPO) method needs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Alejandro Morales-Hernández , Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse , Gonzalo Nápoles

Hyperparameter tuning is an omnipresent problem in machine learning as it is an integral aspect of obtaining the state-of-the-art performance for any model. Most often, hyperparameters are optimized just by training a model on a grid of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Hadi S. Jomaa , Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

To achieve peak predictive performance, hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a crucial component of machine learning and its applications. Over the last years, the number of efficient algorithms and tools for HPO grew substantially. At the…

While deep neural networks excel in solving visual recognition tasks, they require significant effort to find hyperparameters that make them work optimally. Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) approaches have automated the process of finding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Gaurav Mittal , Chang Liu , Nikolaos Karianakis , Victor Fragoso , Mei Chen , Yun Fu

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

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…

Reinforcement learning algorithms can show strong variation in performance between training runs with different random seeds. In this paper we explore how this affects hyperparameter optimization when the goal is to find hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Lars Hertel , Pierre Baldi , Daniel L. Gillen

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

Hyperparameter selection in continual learning scenarios is a challenging and underexplored aspect, especially in practical non-stationary environments. Traditional approaches, such as grid searches with held-out validation data from all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Rudy Semola , Julio Hurtado , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Bacciu

With the extensive applications of machine learning models, automatic hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has become increasingly important. Motivated by the tuning behaviors of human experts, it is intuitive to leverage auxiliary knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yang Li , Yu Shen , Huaijun Jiang , Wentao Zhang , Zhi Yang , Ce Zhang , Bin Cui

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

Hyperparameter optimisation is a crucial process in searching the optimal machine learning model. The efficiency of finding the optimal hyperparameter settings has been a big concern in recent researches since the optimisation process could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuxi Huan , Fan Wu , Michail Basios , Leslie Kanthan , Lingbo Li , Baowen Xu

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is crucial for strong performance of deep learning algorithms and real-world applications often impose some constraints, such as memory usage, or latency on top of the performance requirement. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Shuhei Watanabe , Frank Hutter

Despite the growing interest in designing truly interactive hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods, to date, only a few allow to include human feedback. Existing interactive Bayesian optimization (BO) methods incorporate human beliefs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jonas Seng , Fabrizio Ventola , Zhongjie Yu , Kristian Kersting

The performance of modern reinforcement learning algorithms critically relies on tuning ever-increasing numbers of hyperparameters. Often, small changes in a hyperparameter can lead to drastic changes in performance, and different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jacob Adkins , Michael Bowling , Adam White

Many state-of-the-art hyperparameter optimization (HPO) algorithms rely on model-based optimizers that learn surrogate models of the target function to guide the search. Gaussian processes are the de facto surrogate model due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 David Salinas , Jacek Golebiowski , Aaron Klein , Matthias Seeger , Cedric Archambeau

When training deep learning models, the performance depends largely on the selected hyperparameters. However, hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is often one of the most expensive parts of model design. Classical HPO methods treat this as a…

Tuning machine learning models at scale, especially finding the right hyperparameter values, can be difficult and time-consuming. In addition to the computational effort required, this process also requires some ancillary efforts including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Machine learning has achieved remarkable success over the past couple of decades, often attributed to a combination of algorithmic innovations and the availability of high-quality data available at scale. However, a third critical component…