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For deep learning practitioners, hyperparameter tuning for optimizing model performance can be a computationally expensive task. Though visualization can help practitioners relate hyperparameter settings to overall model performance,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Hyekang Joo , Calvin Bao , Ishan Sen , Furong Huang , Leilani Battle

Modern machine learning algorithms are increasingly computationally demanding, requiring specialized hardware and distributed computation to achieve high performance in a reasonable time frame. Many hyperparameter search algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Richard Liaw , Eric Liang , Robert Nishihara , Philipp Moritz , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

Sherpa is a hyperparameter optimization library for machine learning models. It is specifically designed for problems with computationally expensive, iterative function evaluations, such as the hyperparameter tuning of deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Lars Hertel , Julian Collado , Peter Sadowski , Jordan Ott , Pierre Baldi

The performance of optimization algorithms relies crucially on their parameterizations. Finding good parameter settings is called algorithm tuning. The sequential parameter optimization (SPOT) package for R is a toolbox for tuning and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Martin Zaefferer , Frederik Rehbach

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the PyTorch distributed data parallel module. PyTorch is a widely-adopted scientific computing package used in deep learning research and applications. Recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Shen Li , Yanli Zhao , Rohan Varma , Omkar Salpekar , Pieter Noordhuis , Teng Li , Adam Paszke , Jeff Smith , Brian Vaughan , Pritam Damania , Soumith Chintala

Hyperparameter tuning is one of the most time-consuming workloads in deep learning. State-of-the-art optimizers, such as AdaGrad, RMSProp and Adam, reduce this labor by adaptively tuning an individual learning rate for each variable.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-16 Jian Zhang , Ioannis Mitliagkas

Hyperparameter tuning is a fundamental aspect of machine learning research. Setting up the infrastructure for systematic optimization of hyperparameters can take a significant amount of time. Here, we present PyHopper, a black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mathias Lechner , Ramin Hasani , Philipp Neubauer , Sophie Neubauer , Daniela Rus

Machine learning applications often require hyperparameter tuning. The hyperparameters usually drive both the efficiency of the model training process and the resulting model quality. For hyperparameter tuning, machine learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Patrick Koch , Oleg Golovidov , Steven Gardner , Brett Wujek , Joshua Griffin , Yan Xu

The hyperparameter optimization of neural network can be expressed as a bilevel optimization problem. The bilevel optimization is used to automatically update the hyperparameter, and the gradient of the hyperparameter is the approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shuo Yang , Yang Jiao , Shaoyu Dou , Mana Zheng , Chen Zhu

Gradient boosted trees (GBTs) are ubiquitous models used by researchers, machine learning (ML) practitioners, and data scientists because of their robust performance, interpretable behavior, and ease-of-use. One critical challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Aleksei Sorokin , Xinran Zhu , Eric Hans Lee , Bolong Cheng

The sequential parameter optimization (SPOT) package for R is a toolbox for tuning and understanding simulation and optimization algorithms. Model-based investigations are common approaches in simulation and optimization. Sequential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-25 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

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

A wide range of transformer-based language models have been proposed for information retrieval tasks. However, including transformer-based models in retrieval pipelines is often complex and requires substantial engineering effort. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ferdinand Schlatt , Maik Fröbe , Matthias Hagen

Recent advances in foundation models have emphasized the need to align pre-trained models with specialized domains using small, curated datasets. Studies on these foundation models underscore the importance of low-data training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zihang Liu , Yuanzhe Hu , Tianyu Pang , Yefan Zhou , Pu Ren , Yaoqing Yang

While hyper-parameters (HPs) are important for knowledge graph (KG) learning, existing methods fail to search them efficiently. To solve this problem, we first analyze the properties of different HPs and measure the transfer ability from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yongqi Zhang , Zhanke Zhou , Quanming Yao , Yong Li

With the surge of ChatGPT,the use of large models has significantly increased,rapidly rising to prominence across the industry and sweeping across the internet. This article is a comprehensive review of fine-tuning methods for large models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Benjue Weng

News recommender systems are devised to alleviate the information overload, attracting more and more researchers' attention in recent years. The lack of a dedicated learner-oriented news recommendation toolkit hinders the advancement of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Rongyao Wang , Veronica Liesaputra , Zhiyi Huang

Hyper-parameter Tuning (HPT) is a necessary step in machine learning (ML) pipelines but becomes computationally expensive and opaque with larger models. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been explored for HPT, yet most rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Om Naphade , Saksham Bansal , Parikshit Pareek

Most machine learning algorithms are configured by one or several hyperparameters that must be carefully chosen and often considerably impact performance. To avoid a time consuming and unreproducible manual trial-and-error process to find…

When adapting large language models (LLMs) to a specific downstream task, two primary approaches are commonly employed: (1) prompt engineering, often with in-context few-shot learning, leveraging the model's inherent generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jorg Bornschein , Clare Lyle , Yazhe Li , Amal Rannen-Triki , Xu Owen He , Razvan Pascanu