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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

Recent developments in Deep Learning (DL) suggest a vast potential for Topology Optimization (TO). However, while there are some promising attempts, the subfield still lacks a firm footing regarding basic methods and datasets. We aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Sören Dittmer , David Erzmann , Henrik Harms , Peter Maass

The performance of deep neural networks (DNN) is very sensitive to the particular choice of hyper-parameters. To make it worse, the shape of the learning curve can be significantly affected when a technique like batchnorm is used. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Hyunghun Cho , Yongjin Kim , Eunjung Lee , Daeyoung Choi , Yongjae Lee , Wonjong Rhee

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

As model sizes grow, finding efficient and cost-effective hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods becomes increasingly crucial for deep learning pipelines. While multi-fidelity HPO (MF-HPO) trades off computational resources required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Timur Carstensen , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter , Martin Rapp

Hyperparameter optimization constitutes a large part of typical modern machine learning workflows. This arises from the fact that machine learning methods and corresponding preprocessing steps often only yield optimal performance when…

In this paper we propose for the first time the hyperparameter optimization (HPO) algorithm POCAII. POCAII differs from the Hyperband and Successive Halving literature by explicitly separating the search and evaluation phases and utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Joshua Inman , Tanmay Khandait , Lalitha Sankar , Giulia Pedrielli

Branch prediction is an architectural feature that speeds up the execution of branch instruction on pipeline processors and reduces the cost of branching. Recent advancements of Deep Learning (DL) in the post Moore's Law era is accelerating…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Rinu Joseph

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 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 (HPO) is a necessary step to ensure the best possible performance of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Several methods have been developed to perform HPO; most of these are focused on optimizing one performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Alejandro Morales-Hernández , Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez

Optimal prompt selection is crucial for maximizing large language model (LLM) performance on downstream tasks, especially in black-box settings where models are only accessible via APIs. Black-box prompt selection is challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lennart Schneider , Martin Wistuba , Aaron Klein , Jacek Golebiowski , Giovanni Zappella , Felice Antonio Merra

The importance of tuning hyperparameters in Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) is established through empirical research and applications, evident from the increase in new hyperparameter optimization (HPO) algorithms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anton Geburek , Neeratyoy Mallik , Danny Stoll , Xavier Bouthillier , Frank Hutter

Performance of machine learning algorithms depends critically on identifying a good set of hyperparameters. While recent approaches use Bayesian optimization to adaptively select configurations, we focus on speeding up random search through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Lisha Li , Kevin Jamieson , Giulia DeSalvo , Afshin Rostamizadeh , Ameet Talwalkar

Since the deep learning model is highly dependent on hyperparameters, hyperparameter optimization is essential in developing deep learning model-based applications, even if it takes a long time. As service development using deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Kangil Lee , Junho Yim

Modern deep learning methods are very sensitive to many hyperparameters, and, due to the long training times of state-of-the-art models, vanilla Bayesian hyperparameter optimization is typically computationally infeasible. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Stefan Falkner , Aaron Klein , Frank Hutter

Selecting the right set of hyperparameters is crucial in time series forecasting. The classical temporal cross-validation framework for hyperparameter optimization (HPO) often leads to poor test performance because of a possible mismatch…

Due to the high computational demands executing a rigorous comparison between hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods is often cumbersome. The goal of this paper is to facilitate a better empirical evaluation of HPO methods by providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Aaron Klein , Frank Hutter

As machine learning permeates more industries and models become more expensive and time consuming to train, the need for efficient automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has never been more pressing. Multi-step planning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Lucio M. Dery , Abram L. Friesen , Nando De Freitas , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Yutian Chen

We give a simple, fast algorithm for hyperparameter optimization inspired by techniques from the analysis of Boolean functions. We focus on the high-dimensional regime where the canonical example is training a neural network with a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Elad Hazan , Adam Klivans , Yang Yuan