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This paper proposes a new method for hyperparameter optimization (HPO) that balances exploration and exploitation. While evolutionary algorithms (EAs) show promise in HPO, they often struggle with effective exploitation. To address this, we…

We address the relatively unexplored problem of hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) for federated learning (FL-HPO). We introduce Federated Loss suRface Aggregation (FLoRA), the first FL-HPO solution framework that can address use cases of…

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Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a resource-efficient way to personalize or specialize. However, LoRA is highly sensitive to hyperparameter choices, and exhaustive hyperparameter search is…

Zero-shot hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a simple yet effective use of transfer learning for constructing a small list of hyperparameter (HP) configurations that complement each other. That is to say, for any given dataset, at least…

An automated technique has recently been proposed to transfer learning in the hierarchical Bayesian optimization algorithm (hBOA) based on distance-based statistics. The technique enables practitioners to improve hBOA efficiency by…

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Many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), especially the decomposition-based MOEAs, have attracted wide attention in recent years. Recent studies show that a well designed combination of the decomposition method and the domination…

Feature selection is a crucial step in machine learning, especially for high-dimensional datasets, where irrelevant and redundant features can degrade model performance and increase computational costs. This paper proposes a novel…

Hybrid metaheuristics are powerful techniques for solving difficult optimization problems that exploit the strengths of different approaches in a single implementation. For algorithm designers, however, creating hybrid metaheuristic…