This work aims to answer the questions:

• Which hyperparameters to optimize
• Over what ranges / priors

(Explanation of the work in less than 3 minutes)

All data in this paper can be reproduced using this notebook. Additionally, this folder contains arff files containing a large fraction of the meta-data generated for this project.

Hyperparameter Importance Across Datasets by Jan N. van Rijn and Frank Hutter (ArXiv)

If you find this work useful, please cite:

@inproceedings{Rijn2018Hyperparameter,
  title        = {Hyperparameter Importance Across Datasets},
  author       = {van Rijn, Jan N. and Hutter, Frank},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
  year         = {2018},
  organization = {ACM},
  pages        = {2367--2376}
}