Skip-gram with negative sampling, a popular variant of Word2vec originally designed and tuned to create word embeddings for Natural Language Processing, has been used to create item embeddings with successful applications in recommendation. While these fields do not share the same type of data, neither evaluate on the …
HyperSTAR optimizes deep network hyperparameters for specific tasks.
problem Finding optimal hyperparameters for deep neural networks is computationally expensive and task-agnostic approaches are inefficient.
method HyperSTAR learns a dataset representation and a performance predictor from raw images, ranking and recommending hyperparameters conditioned on a joint dataset-hyperparameter space.
result HyperSTAR reduces HPO time by 50% on large-scale image classification datasets.
LLMs learn to recommend models and hyperparameters from dataset metadata.
problem Model and hyperparameter selection in machine learning is challenging and resource-intensive.
method Converted datasets into metadata and prompted LLMs to recommend models and hyperparameters.
result LLMs can recommend competitive models and hyperparameters without search.
Auto-Surprise automates recommender system selection and optimization.
problem Finding the best algorithm and hyperparameters for recommender systems.
method Extends Surprise library with TPE optimization for algorithm selection and hyperparameter tuning.
result Significantly faster in finding optimal hyperparameters compared to grid search.
AutoRec automates deep recommendation models using AutoML.
problem Adapting to changing data and tasks in recommender systems.
method AutoML platform for model search and hyperparameter tuning.
result Identifies models similar to the best model without prior knowledge.
This paper reviews hyperparameter optimization methods and best practices.
problem Finding optimal hyperparameters for machine learning models.
method Various hyperparameter optimization methods are reviewed, including grid search, random search, evolutionary algorithms, Bayesian optimization, Hyperband, and racing.
result Practical recommendations for conducting hyperparameter optimization are provided.
A cost-efficient method for hyperparameter tuning using multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization.
problem Expensive hyperparameter tuning with limited knowledge transfer methods.
method Amortized Auto-Tuning (AT2) framework for multi-task, multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization.
result AT2 leads to the best hyperparameter recommendation and is more cost-efficient.
Recommendation models mainly deal with categorical variables, such as user/item ID and attributes. Besides the high-cardinality issue, the interactions among such categorical variables are usually long-tailed, with the head made up of highly frequent values and a long tail of rare ones. This phenomenon results in the d…
Paper recommends baselines for comparing GP approximations.
problem Lack of clear recommendations for comparing GP approximations.
method Developed a training procedure for the variational method of Titsias [2009].
result Variational method is a strong baseline that meets the recommended specification.
The success of machine learning on a given task dependson, among other things, which learning algorithm is selected and its associated hyperparameters. Selecting an appropriate learning algorithm and setting its hyperparameters for a given data set can be a challenging task, especially for users who are not experts in …
For many machine learning algorithms, predictive performance is critically affected by the hyperparameter values used to train them. However, tuning these hyperparameters can come at a high computational cost, especially on larger datasets, while the tuned settings do not always significantly outperform the default val…
New recommendations improve Gaussian process accuracy and stability.
problem Numerical instabilities and poor test likelihoods in iterative Gaussian process learning.
method Investigated CG tolerance, preconditioner rank, and Lanczos decomposition rank. Recommended small CG tolerance and large root decomposition size.
result L-BFGS-B optimizer achieves convergence with fewer gradient updates, improving Gaussian process accuracy.
Optimizes recommendation models using skew normal distribution.
problem Improving personalized recommendation systems.
method Develops a new optimization criterion based on skew normal distribution.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models.
Proposes a method to optimize neural network initialization using marginal likelihood maximization.
problem Optimizing hyperparameters for neural network initialization.
method Leverages the connection between neural networks and Gaussian processes to infer optimal hyperparameters.
result Marginal likelihood maximization provides near-optimal prediction performance on MNIST classification tasks.
Improved product recommendations using deep learning.
problem Sparse customer purchasing data for personalized recommendations.
method Deep Collaborative Filtering (NCF) with latent variables and Bayesian Optimization.
result NCF achieved highest NDCG performance on proprietary dataset.
A web browser should not be only for browsing web pages but also help users to find out their target websites and recommend similar type websites based on their behavior. Throughout this paper, we propose two methods to make a web browser more intelligent about link prediction which works during typing on address-bar a…
Reshuffling splits improves hyperparameter optimization's generalization performance.
problem Improving peak performance of machine learning models through better hyperparameter optimization.
method Reshuffling splits for every hyperparameter configuration improves generalization performance.
result Reshuffling leads to better generalization performance compared to fixed splits.
Efficiently identifies promising hyperparameters for online learning models.
problem Expensive hyperparameter search for non-stationary model training.
method Two-stage approach: efficient configuration identification followed by full training.
result Up to 10x reduction in hyperparameter search cost on public benchmark.
Bayesian optimisation improves with fully-Bayesian treatment of hyperparameters.
problem Overconfident model predictions in BO due to ignoring hyperparameter uncertainty.
method Investigate FBBO using three approximate inference schemes compared to maximum likelihood approach.
result FBBO using EI with an ARD kernel leads to best performance in noise-free setting.
The paper proposes a method to learn hyperparameters without validation sets, improving efficiency and accuracy.
problem Training large models on limited data to avoid overfitting and reduce validation set usage.
method Gradient-based learning of hyperparameters via a data-emphasized evidence lower bound (ELBO) objective.
result The data-emphasized ELBO reduces hyperparameter search time from 88+ hours to under 3 hours while maintaining comparable accuracy.
As the bioinformatics field grows, it must keep pace not only with new data but with new algorithms. Here we contribute a thorough analysis of 13 state-of-the-art, commonly used machine learning algorithms on a set of 165 publicly available classification problems in order to provide data-driven algorithm recommendatio…
This paper addresses overfitting in dimension reduction methods by calibrating hyperparameters considering noise.
problem Overfitting in dimension reduction methods, especially t-SNE and UMAP, when data contains noise.
method Present a framework to calibrate hyperparameters in the presence of noise for t-SNE and UMAP.
result Recommended hyperparameter values for t-SNE and UMAP are too small and overfit the noise.
Dr.S recommends cancer drugs based on genomic data.
problem Personalizing cancer treatments using genomic information.
method Machine learning to identify optimal drug-gene associations.
result Developed a Drug Recommendation System (Dr.S) for cancer cell lines.
New model reveals significant impact of data and parameter variations on machine learning benchmarks.
problem Variance in machine learning benchmarks due to data sampling, initialization, and hyperparameters.
method Modeling the benchmarking process, analyzing comparison methods, and studying error rates.
result Adding more sources of variation reduces compute cost while improving performance.
This study evaluates different normalizing flow architectures for MCMC.
problem Lack of systematic comparison of normalizing flow architectures in MCMC.
method Extensive evaluation of various normalizing flow architectures on different MCMC methods and target distributions.
result Contractive residual flows are the best general-purpose models for MCMC.
For an unknown (new) classification dataset, choosing an appropriate deep learning architecture is often a recursive, time-taking, and laborious process. In this research, we propose a novel technique to recommend a suitable architecture from a repository of known models. Further, we predict the performance accuracy of…
The combined algorithm selection and hyperparameter tuning (CASH) problem is characterized by large hierarchical hyperparameter spaces. Model-free hyperparameter tuning methods can explore such large spaces efficiently since they are highly parallelizable across multiple machines. When no prior knowledge or meta-data e…
We introduce an exploratory study on Mutation Validation (MV), a model validation method using mutated training labels for supervised learning. MV mutates training data labels, retrains the model against the mutated data, then uses the metamorphic relation that captures the consequent training performance changes to as…
Paper reproduces and enhances a method for cross-lingual word embeddings.
problem Creating robust cross-lingual mappings of word embeddings without supervision.
method Reproduces and enhances a self-learning method with grid search for hyperparameters.
result Model's robustness is demonstrated across four new languages.
Develops a method to evaluate OPE robustness to hyperparameters and policies.
problem Difficulty in selecting and tuning OPE estimators due to limited experimental evaluations.
method Introduces IEOE (Interpretable Evaluation for Offline Evaluation) to assess robustness.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of OPE estimators' reliability.
Adapts linearised Laplace method for deep learning models.
problem Incompatibility of linearised Laplace method with modern deep learning tools.
method Examines and adapts linearised Laplace method for model selection in deep learning.
result Recommendations for better adapting linearised Laplace method to modern deep learning.
slimTrain simplifies DNN training by separating features and adapting hyperparameters.
problem Challenges in training deep neural networks, including non-convexity, non-smoothness, and hyperparameter sensitivity.
method slimTrain exploits separability in DNN architectures to reduce hyperparameter sensitivity and improve convergence.
result slimTrain outperforms existing methods with recommended hyperparameters and reduces sensitivity to remaining hyperparameters.
This paper simplifies fine-tuning for small LLMs, reducing barriers for developers.
problem Limited resources for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) by individual developers and small organizations.
method Instruction-tuning datasets, small-sized LLMs (3B to 7B parameters), various training configurations and strategies.
result Improved model performance on benchmarks with specific training configurations, and insights into early termination and hyperparameter simplifications.
In this article we provide a formulation of empirical bayes described by Atchade (2011) to tune the hyperparameters of priors used in bayesian set up of collaborative filter. We implement the same in MovieLens small dataset. We see that it can be used to get a good initial choice for the parameters. It can also be used…
Machine-learning algorithms have gained popularity in recent years in the field of ecological modeling due to their promising results in predictive performance of classification problems. While the application of such algorithms has been highly simplified in the last years due to their well-documented integration in co…
Sparse Bayesian Optimization (SEBO) finds interpretable configurations.
problem Optimizing black-box functions for recommendation systems while maintaining interpretability.
method Regularization-based approaches, including a differentiable relaxation for L0 regularization, and a hyperparameter-free method SEBO. result SEBO efficiently optimizes for sparsity without hyperparameters.
Proposes learning regularization strength directly from data.
problem Computational expense and data reduction in grid search for deep learning hyperparameters.
method Modified Evidence Lower Bound (ELBo) objective for model selection on full training set.
result Comparable heldout accuracy to grid search with less compute time.
Large learning rates improve generalization, but optimal ranges are narrower than previously thought.
problem Optimizing learning rates for neural network training.
method Detailed exploration of learning rate ranges in a simplified setup, validating findings in a practical setting.
result Optimal learning rate ranges are significantly narrower than previously assumed.
A new method for effective VAE training using calibrated decoders.
problem Training VAEs requires hyperparameter tuning, leading to inefficiency.
method Calibrated decoders that learn uncertainty and automatically determine information retention.
result Calibrated decoders can simplify VAE training without heuristic modifications.
A two-stage GPR framework with automatic kernel search and subsampling improves prediction accuracy and efficiency.
problem Inaccurate predictions due to misspecified mean and kernel functions in Gaussian Process Regression.
method Two-stage GPR, automatic kernel search, subsampling for hyperparameter initialization.
result Competitive or better performance compared to full dataset training, robust on real-world datasets.
QS-BO optimizes functions using only rank-based feedback.
problem Optimizing expensive functions with unreliable or unavailable metric values.
method Quantile-scaling pipeline to convert ranks into Gaussian targets.
result QS-BO consistently achieves lower objective values and is statistically significant.
Revisits neural collaborative filtering vs. matrix factorization, showing dot product superiority.
problem Comparing neural collaborative filtering to matrix factorization in recommendation systems.
method Revisited experiments using MLPs as similarity functions, comparing dot product to MLP outputs.
result Simple dot product outperforms MLP-based learned similarities in practical settings.
Proposes a new method for likelihood-to-evidence ratio estimation.
problem Inherent bias in multiclass ratio estimation framework.
method Contrastive Neural Ratio Estimation (C-NeR) framework.
result C-NeR framework removes bias and improves diagnostic reliability.
Deviation-based learning improves recommender systems by abstaining from recommending choices users might follow.
problem Recommender systems learn from user choices but can stall if users blindly follow recommendations.
method The recommender learns user knowledge by observing choices, abstaining from recommending a choice when multiple alternatives produce similar payoffs.
result Learning rate and social welfare improve when the recommender abstains from recommending certain choices.
Hyperparameter optimization can be formulated as a bilevel optimization problem, where the optimal parameters on the training set depend on the hyperparameters. We aim to adapt regularization hyperparameters for neural networks by fitting compact approximations to the best-response function, which maps hyperparameters …
CAFL breaks feedback loops in recommender systems using causal inference.
problem Feedback loops in recommender systems compromise recommendation quality and homogenize user behavior.
method Causal Adjustment for Feedback Loops (CAFL) algorithm that breaks feedback loops using causal inference.
result CAFL improves recommendation quality compared to prior correction methods.
ANT learns sparse embeddings for large vocabularies efficiently.
problem Lack of scalable methods for embedding large vocabularies in neural networks.
method Anchor & Transform (ANT) algorithm that learns a small set of anchor embeddings and a sparse transformation matrix.
result ANT achieves stronger performance with fewer parameters (up to 40x compression) compared to existing methods.
Proposes a Big Data framework for SC forecasting, including data preprocessing and machine learning.
problem Improving SC forecasting accuracy and efficiency.
method Data collection, preprocessing, machine learning model training, hyperparameter tuning, performance evaluation.
result Optimized SC forecasting models enhance workforce, inventory, and overall SC performance.