Extending the hypergradient descent technique to reduce the time of optimal solution achieved in hyperparameter optimization algorithms
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There have been many applications for machine learning algorithms in different fields. The importance of hyperparameters for machine learning algorithms is their control over the behaviors of training algorithms and their crucial impact on the performance of machine learning models. Tuning hyperparameters crucially affects the performance of machine learning algorithms, and future advances in this area mainly depend on well-tuned hyperparameters. Nevertheless, the high computational cost involved in evaluating the algorithms in large datasets or complicated models is a significant limitation that causes inefficiency of the tuning process. Besides, increased online applications of machine learning approaches have led to the requirement of producing good answers in less time. The present study first presents a novel classification of hyperparameter types based on their types to create high-quality solutions quickly. Then, based on this classification and using the hypergradient technique, some hyperparameters of deep learning algorithms are adjusted during the training process to decrease the search space and discover the optimal values of the hyperparameters. This method just needs only the parameters of the previous two steps and the gradient of the previous step. Finally, the proposed method is combined with other techniques in hyperparameter optimization, and the results are reviewed in two case studies. As confirmed by experimental results, the performance of the algorithms with the proposed method have been increased 36.62% and 23.16% (based on the best average accuracy) for Cifar10 and Cifar100 dataset respectively in early stages while the final produced answers with this method are equal to or better than the algorithms without it. Therefore, this method can be combined with hyperparameter optimization algorithms in order to improve their performance and make them more appropriate for online use by just using the parameters of the previous two steps and the gradient of the previous step.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".