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5 papers

cs.LG2026

CDS4RAG: Cyclic Dual-Sequential Hyperparameter Optimization for RAG

Pengzhou Chen, Tao Chen

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is sensitive to the vast hyperparameters of the retriever and generator, yet optimizing them using given queries is a challenging task due to t…

cs.LG2026

LLMSYS-HPOBench: Hyperparameter Optimization Benchmark Suite for Real-World LLM Systems

Siyu Wu, Yulong Ye, Zezhen Xiang +3

Large Language Model (LLM) systems have been the frontier of AI in many application domains, leading to new challenges and opportunities for hyperparameter optimization (HPO) for t…

cs.SE2025

Evaluating Useful Surrogate Models for Configuration Tuning Beyond Accuracy: A Fitness Landscape Analysis Perspective

Pengzhou Chen, Hongyuan Liang, Tao Chen

To efficiently tune configuration for better software system performance (e.g., latency) at the deployment and maintenance stage, many tuners have leveraged a surrogate model to ex…

cs.SE2025

PromiseTune: Unveiling Causally Promising and Explainable Configuration Tuning

Pengzhou Chen, Tao Chen

The high configurability of modern software systems has made configuration tuning a crucial step for assuring system performance, e.g., latency or throughput. However, given the ex…

cs.SE2025

Accuracy Can Lie: On the Impact of Surrogate Model in Configuration Tuning

Pengzhou Chen, Jingzhi Gong, Tao Chen

To ease the expensive measurements during configuration tuning, it is natural to build a surrogate model as the replacement of the system, and thereby the configuration performance…