OpenML is an online platform for open science collaboration in machine learning, used to share datasets and results of machine learning experiments. In this paper we introduce OpenML-Python, a client API for Python, opening up the OpenML platform for a wide range of Python-based tools. It provides easy access to all da…
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Machine learning research depends on objectively interpretable, comparable, and reproducible algorithm benchmarks. We advocate the use of curated, comprehensive suites of machine learning tasks to standardize the setup, execution, and reporting of benchmarks. We enable this through software tools that help to create an…
OpenML is an online machine learning platform where researchers can easily share data, machine learning tasks and experiments as well as organize them online to work and collaborate more efficiently. In this paper, we present an R package to interface with the OpenML platform and illustrate its usage in combination wit…
AutoML frameworks outperform human data scientists on 7 out of 12 OpenML tasks.
Understanding the influence of hyperparameters on the performance of a machine learning algorithm is an important scientific topic in itself and can help to improve automatic hyperparameter tuning procedures. Unfortunately, experimental meta data for this purpose is still rare. This paper presents a large, free and ope…
New IRT method identifies useful datasets for ML classifier evaluation.
Paper compiles ML algorithm performance benchmarks on OpenML datasets.
Dida learns meta-features invariant to feature permutations.
AutoML serves as the bridge between varying levels of expertise when designing machine learning systems and expedites the data science process. A wide range of techniques is taken to address this, however there does not exist an objective comparison of these techniques. We present a benchmark of current open source Aut…
TabPFN quickly classifies small tabular data without tuning.
While active learning offers potential cost savings, the actual data efficiency---the reduction in amount of labeled data needed to obtain the same error rate---observed in practice is mixed. This paper poses a basic question: when is active learning actually helpful? We provide an answer for logistic regression with t…
Improved tabular models learn better from real-world data.
The AutoML task consists of selecting the proper algorithm in a machine learning portfolio, and its hyperparameter values, in order to deliver the best performance on the dataset at hand. Mosaic, a Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) based approach, is presented to handle the AutoML hybrid structural and parametric expensiv…
LightAutoML automates ML for a large financial services company.
Complex black-box predictive models may have high performance, but lack of interpretability causes problems like lack of trust, lack of stability, sensitivity to concept drift. On the other hand, achieving satisfactory accuracy of interpretable models require more time-consuming work related to feature engineering. Can…
Modern supervised machine learning algorithms involve hyperparameters that have to be set before running them. Options for setting hyperparameters are default values from the software package, manual configuration by the user or configuring them for optimal predictive performance by a tuning procedure. The goal of this…
With the advent of automated machine learning, automated hyperparameter optimization methods are by now routinely used in data mining. However, this progress is not yet matched by equal progress on automatic analyses that yield information beyond performance-optimizing hyperparameter settings. In this work, we aim to a…
We study the AutoML problem of automatically configuring machine learning pipelines by jointly selecting algorithms and their appropriate hyper-parameters for all steps in supervised learning pipelines. This black-box (gradient-free) optimization with mixed integer & continuous variables is a challenging problem. We pr…
Study shows leaving some hyperparameters at default can outperform tuning them.
Parametric models, and particularly neural networks, require weight initialization as a starting point for gradient-based optimization. Recent work shows that a specific initial parameter set can be learned from a population of supervised learning tasks. Using this initial parameter set enables a fast convergence for u…
Automated machine learning aims to automate the whole process of machine learning, including model configuration. In this paper, we focus on automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) based on sequential model-based optimization (SMBO). Though conventional SMBO algorithms work well when abundant HPO trials are availab…
AutoGluon-Tabular automates tabular data ML with single line Python.
New method compares classifiers using GSD-front, addressing statistical uncertainty and robustness.
The number of trees T in the random forest (RF) algorithm for supervised learning has to be set by the user. It is controversial whether T should simply be set to the largest computationally manageable value or whether a smaller T may in some cases be better. While the principle underlying bagging is that "more trees a…
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…
CADR estimator improves inference for contextual bandit data.
In-context learning solves PU classification without iterative optimization.
In classification, the de facto method for aggregating individual losses is the average loss. When the actual metric of interest is 0-1 loss, it is common to minimize the average surrogate loss for some well-behaved (e.g. convex) surrogate. Recently, several other aggregate losses such as the maximal loss and average t…
o1Neuro neural network approximates complex functions and converges quickly.
Machine Learning (ML) has been successfully applied to a wide range of domains and applications. One of the techniques behind most of these successful applications is Ensemble Learning (EL), the field of ML that gave birth to methods such as Random Forests or Boosting. The complexity of applying these techniques togeth…
HyperFast instantly classifies tabular data in one pass.
Generative model improves tabular data density estimation.
A new framework tackles CASH problem with alternating optimization and Rising Bandits.
EnsLoss combines multiple loss functions to prevent overfitting in classification.
AutoML system boosts interpretability without sacrificing performance.
Study evaluates 13 CI methods for generalization error across 19 problems.
Paper introduces r-DEP classifier for binary classification tasks.
PFN-TS uses Thompson sampling with PFNs to improve contextual bandit performance.
SnapBoost uses random base hypothesis classes to improve gradient boosting performance.
Machine learning algorithms often contain many hyperparameters (HPs) whose values affect the predictive performance of the induced models in intricate ways. Due to the high number of possibilities for these HP configurations and their complex interactions, it is common to use optimization techniques to find settings th…