Generative approach speeds hyperparameter tuning for machine learning models.
problem Computational infeasibility of cross-validation and difficulty of fully Bayesian hyper-parameter learning.
method Combines optimization-based approximations and amortization techniques.
result Rapid evaluation of hyper-parameters over grids or ranges, supporting predictive tuning and uncertainty quantification.
This work improves Bayesian Optimization for setting DNN hyper-parameters.
problem Manual setting of DNN hyper-parameters is error-prone and computationally expensive.
method Combines Bayesian Optimization with tuning rules to reduce search space and improve accuracy.
result Improves efficiency and accuracy of hyper-parameter tuning for deep neural networks.
A new Randomized-Hyperopt method improves XGBoost hyperparameter tuning.
problem Improving the performance of XGBoost through hyperparameter optimization.
method Proposes Randomized-Hyperopt for XGBoost hyperparameter tuning.
result Randomized-Hyperopt outperforms other methods in terms of accuracy and execution time.
Bayesian optimisation tackles stochastic MPC hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Fine-tuning hyper-parameters in stochastic MPC models.
method Heteroscedastic Bayesian optimisation framework.
result Framework effectively tunes hyper-parameters in control problems.
This paper introduces an efficient method for optimizing deep learning hyperparameters.
problem The high dependency of deep learning algorithms on hyper-parameters.
method Orthogonal Array Tuning Method (OATM) for deep learning hyper-parameter tuning.
result The proposed OATM method significantly saves tuning time compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Paper proposes a reinforcement learning framework for efficient hyper-parameter tuning of stochastic optimization algorithms.
problem Efficient tuning of hyper-parameters for stochastic optimization algorithms.
method Modeling hyper-parameter tuning as a Markov decision process and using policy gradient algorithms.
result The proposed framework significantly reduces the time required for hyper-parameter tuning compared to Bayesian optimization.
Deep RNN detects electricity theft in smart grids.
problem Electricity theft in smart grids.
method Generalized deep recurrent neural network (RNN) with gated recurrent unit (GRU) and random hyper-parameter tuning.
result Superior performance compared to existing detectors.
Graph embedding methods represent nodes in a continuous vector space, preserving information from the graph (e.g. by sampling random walks). There are many hyper-parameters to these methods (such as random walk length) which have to be manually tuned for every graph. In this paper, we replace random walk hyper-paramete…
A framework for auto-tuning hyper-parameters in contextual bandit algorithms.
problem Auto-tuning hyper-parameters in real-time for contextual bandit algorithms.
method Proposes a Syndicated Bandits framework to learn multiple hyper-parameters dynamically.
result Achieves optimal regret bounds under certain scenarios and handles multiple contextual bandit algorithms.
Budgeted hyper-parameter tuning algorithm improves performance.
problem Optimizing hyper-parameters with resource constraints.
method Sequential decision making, Bayesian model, action-value function.
result Superior performance across various budgets.
Federated learning improves with adaptive hyper-parameters and representation matching.
problem Heterogeneous client data leads to divergent local models in federated learning.
method Representation matching and adaptive hyper-parameters.
result Significant performance and robustness improvements in federated learning.
Evolutionary Strategies optimize hyper-parameters for off-policy learning.
problem Hyper-parameter sensitivity in off-policy learning.
method Application of Evolutionary Strategies for online hyper-parameter tuning.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.
Paper proposes a new algorithm for efficient hyper-parameter optimization.
problem Efficient hyper-parameter tuning for machine learning models.
method Information geometric optimization with stochastic natural gradient for discrete search domains.
result The proposed algorithm achieves faster optimization than existing methods without manual tuning.
Optimizes SGD for text classification using hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Improving performance of SGD in text classification.
method Fine-tuning hyper-parameters using Grid-Search approach.
result Optimized SGD classification leads to better accuracy and execution time.
A hybrid RL-Bayesian search configures machine learning pipelines efficiently.
problem Optimizing hyper-parameters in a hierarchical conditional space.
method Combines Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods in pipeline optimization.
Improves risk control in predictions using semi-supervised calibration.
problem Noisy hyper-parameter tuning from limited labeled data.
method Semi-supervised calibration using unlabeled data to tune hyper-parameters rigorously.
result Improves prediction accuracy without sacrificing statistical validity.
BOFFIN TTS optimizes hyper-parameters for new speaker adaptation.
problem Fine-tuning a pre-trained TTS model for a new speaker with limited data.
method Bayesian optimization to efficiently find optimal hyper-parameters.
result Average 30% improvement in speaker similarity over standard techniques.
Study examines the cost of tuning hyper-parameters in regression models.
problem Estimating optimal hyper-parameters for regression models.
method Established finite-sample oracle inequalities for hyper-parameter selection.
result Generalization error of selected models shrinks at nearly a parametric rate.
Bayesian optimization improved AlphaGo's win-rate from 50% to 66.5%.
problem Hyper-parameter tuning for machine learning models.
method Bayesian optimization for hyper-parameter tuning.
result Bayesian optimization improved AlphaGo's performance in self-play games.
Meta-Semi learns to optimize SSL with minimal hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Limited labeled data in SSL makes it impractical to tune many hyper-parameters.
method Meta-learning approach that dynamically reweights unlabeled data loss.
result Meta-Semi achieves competitive performance on various SSL tasks.
This work introduces 'Artificial Entanglement' to understand LLMs' fine-tuning effectiveness.
problem Understanding the effectiveness of parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods for large language models.
method Adopting a quantum-information-inspired perspective, the study measures 'Artificial Entanglement' in neural networks.
result LoRA and FFT induce distinct internal entanglement signatures but not external ones, suggesting a 'no-hair' property.
New metaheuristic combines SGD and SA for hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Hyper-parameter tuning for deep neural networks.
method Simulated Annealing applied to discrete optimization of SGD.
result Improves final validation accuracy for ResNet34 and VGG16.
Tree-search algorithm optimizes noisy black-box functions with multi-fidelity queries.
problem Optimizing noisy functions with expensive evaluations and low-cost approximations.
method Tree-like hierarchical partitions and multi-fidelity bandit tree-search algorithm.
result Simple regret bounds for the proposed algorithm.
XGBoost model improves business risk classification with feature selection and Bayesian hyper-parameter optimization.
problem Improving business risk classification models using advanced machine learning techniques.
method XGBoost, feature selection (FS), Bayesian hyper-parameter optimization (TPE and RS), 10-fold cross-validation.
result Bayesian TPE optimization outperforms random search and achieves higher accuracy and AUC, recall, and F1 score.
We learn recurrent neural network optimizers trained on simple synthetic functions by gradient descent. We show that these learned optimizers exhibit a remarkable degree of transfer in that they can be used to efficiently optimize a broad range of derivative-free black-box functions, including Gaussian process bandits,…
XRM discovers environments without human annotations for OOD methods.
problem Costly and biased manual annotations limit OOD methods.
method XRM trains twin networks to mimic mistakes, eliminating hyper-parameters.
result XRM achieves oracle worst-group-accuracy for OOD methods.
Bayesian optimization is a powerful tool for fine-tuning the hyper-parameters of a wide variety of machine learning models. The success of machine learning has led practitioners in diverse real-world settings to learn classifiers for practical problems. As machine learning becomes commonplace, Bayesian optimization bec…
A method learns common bias for multiple low-variance tasks without hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Learning common bias for multiple low-variance tasks without manual tuning.
method Two variants of online learning methods (aggressive and lazy) that update bias after each datapoint or at the end of each task.
result Across-tasks regret bound derived for the method, showing faster rates for aggressive variant and standard rates for lazy variant.
In recent years a number of methods have been developed for automatically learning the (sparse) connectivity structure of Markov Random Fields. These methods are mostly based on L1-regularized optimization which has a number of disadvantages such as the inability to assess model uncertainty and expensive crossvalidatio…
In recent years a number of methods have been developed for automatically learning the (sparse) connectivity structure of Markov Random Fields. These methods are mostly based on L1-regularized optimization which has a number of disadvantages such as the inability to assess model uncertainty and expensive cross-validati…
BFLOAT16 achieves SOTA results in deep learning training without hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Ensuring deep learning training achieves SOTA results without hyper-parameter tuning.
method Implemented a method to emulate BFLOAT16 operations in various frameworks.
result BFLOAT16 achieves SOTA results in deep learning training without hyper-parameter tuning.
ABPS improves RL training efficiency by sharing policies and evolving hyper-params.
problem Data inefficiency in training deep RL models for real-world applications.
method ABPS: adaptive behavior policy sharing; ABPS-PBT: hybridizing ABPS with PBT for evolving hyper-params.
result ABPS achieves superior performance and reduced variance compared to conventional hyper-parameter tuning.
Predicts neural network accuracy with minimal training, speeding up hyper-parameter tuning.
problem Expensive full training of neural networks during hyper-parameter tuning.
method Train network multiple times, store initial and final accuracies, use curve fitting and SVM for prediction.
result Predicted accuracies match known optimal settings with low computational cost.
This paper proposes an efficient autoHPO method based on data-to-hyper-parameter mapping.
problem Manual hyper-parameter tuning is costly and dependent.
method The approach is based on mapping from data to hyper-parameters using a sophisticated network structure and effective construction algorithms.
result The proposed approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
KD technique improves QDNN performance with reduced hyper-parameters.
problem Restoring performance loss in QDNNs due to quantization.
method Applied KD with reduced hyper-parameters, including a new coefficient reduction technique.
result Achieved 92.7% test accuracy on CIFAR-10 and 67.0% on CIFAR-100 with 2-bit weights.
The quality of an induced model by a learning algorithm is dependent on the quality of the training data and the hyper-parameters supplied to the learning algorithm. Prior work has shown that improving the quality of the training data (i.e., by removing low quality instances) or tuning the learning algorithm hyper-para…
Paper introduces COBRA variations for multivariate time series forecasting.
problem Multivariate time series forecasting challenges.
method Innovative COBRA variations, data preprocessing, Bayesian optimisation vs. grid search.
result Proposed methodologies outperform state-of-the-art models.
Decoding, ie prediction from brain images or signals, calls for empirical evaluation of its predictive power. Such evaluation is achieved via cross-validation, a method also used to tune decoders' hyper-parameters. This paper is a review on cross-validation procedures for decoding in neuroimaging. It includes a didacti…
Hippo optimizes deep learning hyper-parameters by reducing redundant trials.
problem Redundant hyper-parameter trials in hyper-parameter optimization.
method Hippo breaks down hyper-parameter sequences into stages and executes them in a tree structure.
result Hippo reduces GPU-hours and training time significantly compared to existing methods.
Proposes a learning rate method for shallow nets based on gradient Lipschitz constant.
problem Finding optimal learning rates for shallow neural networks.
method Associates learning rate with gradient Lipschitz constant and proposes a search algorithm.
result The proposed method significantly outperforms existing tuning methods.
Efficient search methods can outperform random search on challenging tasks.
problem Comparing the performance of efficient and random search methods in neural architecture search.
method Comparison of weight sharing and random search methods on progressively larger search spaces for image classification and detection.
result Efficient search methods can provide substantial gains over random search on large, realistic tasks.
This paper explores hyperparameter optimization for machine learning models.
problem Finding the best hyper-parameters for machine learning models.
method Introduces state-of-the-art optimization techniques and discusses their application.
result Comparison of different optimization methods on benchmark datasets.
CDF2PDF is a method of PDF estimation by approximating CDF. The original idea of it was previously proposed in [1] called SIC. However, SIC requires additional hyper-parameter tunning, and no algorithms for computing higher order derivative from a trained NN are provided in [1]. CDF2PDF improves SIC by avoiding the tim…
A new method improves super learner validation efficiency.
problem Improving the efficiency of super learner validation.
method Bootstrap Bias Corrected Cross Validation applied to Super Learning.
result Bootstrap Bias Corrected Cross Validation proved efficient and cost-effective.
SGE-Kriging reduces high-dimensional surrogate modelling costs.
problem High-dimensional function approximation for expensive models.
method Splitting training data into slices, using sliced likelihood function, and learning hyper-parameters from sensitivity indices.
result SGE-Kriging achieves comparable accuracy to standard GE-Kriging but with lower training costs.
DriveML automates machine learning tasks in R.
problem Manual machine learning tasks are time-consuming and error-prone.
method Automated data preparation, feature engineering, model building, and model explanation.
result DriveML performs best across different parameters compared to other packages.
This paper explains GCNs using NTKs and improves their performance.
problem GCNs' performance degrades with depth, and skip connections marginally improve it.
method Derive NTKs for GCNs, validate with simulations, propose NTK as a surrogate model.
result Suitable normalisation can prevent drastic performance drop with depth.
VORACE uses random classifiers to vote for the best class, saving time and expertise.
problem Finding the best classifier for a dataset is costly and requires domain expertise.
method Randomly generated classifiers vote to determine the best class ranking.
result VORACE outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various datasets.