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most citedRegularized target encoding outperforms traditional methods in supervised machine learning with high cardinality features

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cs.LG2021

Automated Benchmark-Driven Design and Explanation of Hyperparameter Optimizers

Julia Moosbauer, Martin Binder, Lennart Schneider +5

Automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has gained great popularity and is an important ingredient of most automated machine learning frameworks. The process of designing HPO a…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

YAHPO Gym -- An Efficient Multi-Objective Multi-Fidelity Benchmark for Hyperparameter Optimization

Florian Pfisterer, Lennart Schneider, Julia Moosbauer +2

When developing and analyzing new hyperparameter optimization methods, it is vital to empirically evaluate and compare them on well-curated benchmark suites. In this work, we propo…

cs.LG2021

Mutation is all you need

Lennart Schneider, Florian Pfisterer, Martin Binder +1

Neural architecture search (NAS) promises to make deep learning accessible to non-experts by automating architecture engineering of deep neural networks. BANANAS is one state-of-th…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Meta-Learning for Symbolic Hyperparameter Defaults

Pieter Gijsbers, Florian Pfisterer, Jan N. van Rijn +2

Hyperparameter optimization in machine learning (ML) deals with the problem of empirically learning an optimal algorithm configuration from data, usually formulated as a black-box…

stat.ML2021★ 7 cited

deepregression: a Flexible Neural Network Framework for Semi-Structured Deep Distributional Regression

David Rügamer, Chris Kolb, Cornelius Fritz +11

In this paper we describe the implementation of semi-structured deep distributional regression, a flexible framework to learn conditional distributions based on the combination of…

stat.ML2021★ 168 cited

Regularized target encoding outperforms traditional methods in supervised machine learning with high cardinality features

Florian Pargent, Florian Pfisterer, Janek Thomas +1

Since most machine learning (ML) algorithms are designed for numerical inputs, efficiently encoding categorical variables is a crucial aspect in data analysis. A common problem are…