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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

Understanding hyper band

Hyper Band (HB) is an extension of SH that is specifically designed to overcome issues inherent in SH (see Figure 6.7). Although we can perform meta-learning to help us balance the trade-off, most of the time we do not have the metadata that’s needed in practice. Furthermore, the possibility of SH removing better sets of hyperparameters in the first several iterations is also worrying and can’t be solved by just finding a sweet spot from the trade-off. HB tries to solve these issues by calling SH several times iteratively.

Since HB is just an extension of SH, it is suggested that you utilize HB as your hyperparameter tuning method when you are working with a large model (for example, a deep neural network) and/or working with a large amount of data, just like SH. Furthermore, it is even better to utilize HB than SH when you do not have the time or metadata needed to help you configure the trade-off between the amount of resources and the number...