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20202026
most citedSMAC3: A Versatile Bayesian Optimization Package for Hyperparameter Optimization

83 citations · 159 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Neural Attention Search Linear: Towards Adaptive Token-Level Hybrid Attention Models

Difan Deng, Andreas Bentzen Winje, Lukas Fehring +1

The quadratic computational complexity of softmax transformers has become a bottleneck in long-context scenarios. In contrast, linear attention model families provide a promising d…

cs.LG2025

carps: A Framework for Comparing N Hyperparameter Optimizers on M Benchmarks

Carolin Benjamins, Helena Graf, Sarah Segel +14

Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) is crucial to develop well-performing machine learning models. In order to ease prototyping and benchmarking of HPO methods, we propose carps, a b…

cs.CL2025

Neural Attention Search

Difan Deng, Marius Lindauer

We present Neural Attention Search (NAtS), a framework that automatically evaluates the importance of each token within a sequence and determines if the corresponding token can be…

cs.LG2024

Optimizing Time Series Forecasting Architectures: A Hierarchical Neural Architecture Search Approach

Difan Deng, Marius Lindauer

The rapid development of time series forecasting research has brought many deep learning-based modules in this field. However, despite the increasing amount of new forecasting arch…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

AutoML in the Age of Large Language Models: Current Challenges, Future Opportunities and Risks

Alexander Tornede, Difan Deng, Theresa Eimer +8

The fields of both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) have achieved remarkable results over the past years. In NLP, especially Large Language…

cs.LG2022

Efficient Automated Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting

Difan Deng, Florian Karl, Frank Hutter +2

Recent years have witnessed tremendously improved efficiency of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), especially Automated Deep Learning (AutoDL) systems, but recent work focuses on…

cs.LG2021

Searching in the Forest for Local Bayesian Optimization

Difan Deng, Marius Lindauer

Because of its sample efficiency, Bayesian optimization (BO) has become a popular approach dealing with expensive black-box optimization problems, such as hyperparameter optimizati…

cs.LG2021★ 83 cited

SMAC3: A Versatile Bayesian Optimization Package for Hyperparameter Optimization

Marius Lindauer, Katharina Eggensperger, Matthias Feurer +6

Algorithm parameters, in particular hyperparameters of machine learning algorithms, can substantially impact their performance. To support users in determining well-performing hype…

stat.ML2021★ 49 cited

Hyperparameter Optimization: Foundations, Algorithms, Best Practices and Open Challenges

Bernd Bischl, Martin Binder, Michel Lang +9

Most machine learning algorithms are configured by one or several hyperparameters that must be carefully chosen and often considerably impact performance. To avoid a time consuming…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

Bag of Baselines for Multi-objective Joint Neural Architecture Search and Hyperparameter Optimization

Julia Guerrero-Viu, Sven Hauns, Sergio Izquierdo +7

Neural architecture search (NAS) and hyperparameter optimization (HPO) make deep learning accessible to non-experts by automatically finding the architecture of the deep neural net…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Squirrel: A Switching Hyperparameter Optimizer

Noor Awad, Gresa Shala, Difan Deng +9

In this short note, we describe our submission to the NeurIPS 2020 BBO challenge. Motivated by the fact that different optimizers work well on different problems, our approach swit…