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Hyperparameter Tuning with Python

By : Louis Owen
Book Image

Hyperparameter Tuning with Python

By: Louis Owen

Overview of this book

Hyperparameters are an important element in building useful machine learning models. This book curates numerous hyperparameter tuning methods for Python, one of the most popular coding languages for machine learning. Alongside in-depth explanations of how each method works, you will use a decision map that can help you identify the best tuning method for your requirements. You’ll start with an introduction to hyperparameter tuning and understand why it's important. Next, you'll learn the best methods for hyperparameter tuning for a variety of use cases and specific algorithm types. This book will not only cover the usual grid or random search but also other powerful underdog methods. Individual chapters are also dedicated to the three main groups of hyperparameter tuning methods: exhaustive search, heuristic search, Bayesian optimization, and multi-fidelity optimization. Later, you will learn about top frameworks like Scikit, Hyperopt, Optuna, NNI, and DEAP to implement hyperparameter tuning. Finally, you will cover hyperparameters of popular algorithms and best practices that will help you efficiently tune your hyperparameter. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to take full control over your machine learning models and get the best models for the best results.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Methods
8
Section 2:The Implementation
13
Section 3:Putting Things into Practice

Chapter 8: Hyperparameter Tuning via Hyperopt

Hyperopt is an optimization package in Python that provides several implementations of hyperparameter tuning methods, including Random Search, Simulated Annealing (SA), Tree-Structured Parzen Estimators (TPE), and Adaptive TPE (ATPE). It also supports various types of hyperparameters with ranging types of sampling distributions.

In this chapter, we’ll introduce the Hyperopt package, starting with its capabilities and limitations, how to utilize it to perform hyperparameter tuning, and all the other important things you need to know about Hyperopt. We’ll learn not only how to utilize Hyperopt to perform hyperparameter tuning with its default configurations but also discuss the available configurations, along with their usage. Moreover, we’ll discuss how the implementation of the hyperparameter tuning methods is related to the theory that we learned about in the previous chapters, since there some minor differences...