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Hyperparameter Tuning with Python

By : Louis Owen
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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

Implementing Adaptive TPE

Adaptive TPE (ATPE) is a variant of the TPE hyperparameter tuning method that is developed based on several improvements compared to TPE, such as automatically tuning several hyperparameters of the TPE method based on the data that we have. For more information about this method, please refer to the original white papers. These can be found in the GitHub repository of the author (https://github.com/electricbrainio/hypermax).

While you can experiment with this method directly using the original GitHub repository of ATPE, Hyperopt has also included this method as part of the package. You can simply follow a similar procedure as in the Implementing Random Search section by only changing the algo parameter to atpe.suggest in Step 4. The following code shows how to perform hyperparameter tuning with ATPE in Hyperopt. Please note that ATPE utilizes the LightGBM model to predict each of the ATPE parameters. That’s why we need to have the LightGBM package...