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Modern machine learning algorithms crucially rely on several design decisions to achieve strong performance, making the problem of Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) more important than ever. Here, we combine the advantages of the popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

This paper research review Ant colony optimization (ACO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA), both are two powerful meta-heuristics. This paper explains some major defects of these two algorithm at first then proposes a new model for ACO in which,…

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Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a powerful method for optimizing black-box functions by combining prior knowledge with ongoing function evaluations. BO constructs a probabilistic surrogate model of the objective function given the covariates,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Roi Naveiro , Becky Tang

Bayesian Optimization is a widely used method for optimizing expensive black-box functions, relying on probabilistic surrogate models such as Gaussian Processes. The quality of the surrogate model is crucial for good optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Carl Hvarfner , David Eriksson , Eytan Bakshy , Max Balandat

Recent empirical work shows that inconsistent results based on choice of hyperparameter optimization (HPO) configuration are a widespread problem in ML research. When comparing two algorithms J and K searching one subspace can yield the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 A. Feder Cooper , Yucheng Lu , Jessica Zosa Forde , Christopher De Sa

Known as two cornerstones of problem solving by search, exploitation and exploration are extensively discussed for implementation and application of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). However, only a few researches focus on evaluation and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Yu Chen , Jun He

Genetic algorithms have been widely used in many practical optimization problems. Inspired by natural selection, operators, including mutation, crossover and selection, provide effective heuristics for search and black-box optimization.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Tanmay Gangwani , Jian Peng

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Qingyun Wu , Chi Wang , Silu Huang

We present a Python package together with a practical guide for the implementation of a lightweight diversity-enhanced genetic algorithm (GA) approach for the exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces. Searching a parameter space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jonas Wessén , Eliel Camargo-Molina

Bayesian Optimization is a popular tool for tuning algorithms in automatic machine learning (AutoML) systems. Current state-of-the-art methods leverage Random Forests or Gaussian processes to build a surrogate model that predicts algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Jeroen van Hoof , Joaquin Vanschoren

Bayesian hyperparameter optimization relies heavily on Gaussian Process (GP) surrogates, due to robust distributional posteriors and strong performance on limited training samples. GPs however underperform in categorical hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Riccardo Doyle

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

Optimization algorithms are very different from human optimizers. A human being would gain more experiences through problem-solving, which helps her/him in solving a new unseen problem. Yet an optimization algorithm never gains any…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xunzhao Yu , Yan Wang , Ling Zhu , Dimitar Filev , Xin Yao

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

AI-assisted molecular optimization is a very active research field as it is expected to provide the next-generation drugs and molecular materials. An important difficulty is that the properties to be optimized rely on costly evaluations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jules Leguy , Thomas Cauchy , Beatrice Duval , Benoit Da Mota

Nowadays genetic algorithm (GA) is greatly used in engineering pedagogy as an adaptive technique to learn and solve complex problems and issues. It is a meta-heuristic approach that is used to solve hybrid computation challenges. GA…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tanweer Alam , Shamimul Qamar , Amit Dixit , Mohamed Benaida

Bayesian optimization (BO) has demonstrated potential for optimizing control performance in data-limited settings, especially for systems with unknown dynamics or unmodeled performance objectives. The BO algorithm efficiently trades-off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Ankush Chakrabarty

Many applications in machine learning require optimizing a function whose true gradient is unknown, but where surrogate gradient information (directions that may be correlated with, but not necessarily identical to, the true gradient) is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Niru Maheswaranathan , Luke Metz , George Tucker , Dami Choi , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

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

Evolutionary optimization algorithms often face defects and limitations that complicate the evolution processes or even prevent them from reaching the global optimum. A notable constraint pertains to the considerable quantity of function…

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