SMAC swMATH ID: 27215 Software Authors: Frank Hutter, Holger Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Kevin Murphy, Steve Ramage Description: SMAC: Sequential Model-based Algorithm Configuration. SMAC (sequential model-based algorithm configuration) is a versatile tool for optimizing algorithm parameters (or the parameters of some other process we can run automatically, or a function we can evaluate, such as a simulation). SMAC has helped us speed up both local search and tree search algorithms by orders of magnitude on certain instance distributions. Recently, we have also found it to be very effective for the hyperparameter optimization of machine learning algorithms, scaling better to high dimensions and discrete input dimensions than other algorithms. Finally, the predictive models SMAC is based on can also capture and exploit important information about the model domain, such as which input variables are most important. We hope you find SMAC similarly useful. Ultimately, we hope that it helps algorithm designers focus on tasks that are more scientifically valuable than parameter tuning. Homepage: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/beta/Projects/SMAC/ Source Code: https://github.com/automl/SMAC3 Related Software: Paramils; Spearmint; irace; SATzilla; Hyperopt; Auto-WEKA; EGO; auto-sklearn; Hyperband; GitHub; MiniSat; Scikit; SATenstein; SPOT; OpenML; AClib; Lingeling; Adam; BOHB; TensorFlow Cited in: 85 Publications Further Publications: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/beta/Projects/SMAC/#papers/ all top 5 Cited by 231 Authors 10 Hoos, Holger H. 9 Lindauer, Marius 8 Hutter, Frank 7 Leyton-Brown, Kevin 7 Stützle, Thomas G. 4 Ansótegui, Carlos 3 López-Ibáñez, Manuel 3 Musliu, Nysret 3 Pon, Josep 3 Schaub, Torsten H. 3 Sellmann, Meinolf 2 Ammar, Haitham Bou 2 Bischl, Bernd 2 Cai, Shaowei 2 Cowen-Rivers, Alexander I. 2 Deisenroth, Marc Peter 2 Eggensperger, Katharina 2 Franzin, Alberto 2 Griffiths, Ryan-Rhys 2 Grosnit, Antoine 2 Kotthoff, Lars 2 Kumar, K. S. Sesh 2 Luo, Chuan 2 Malitsky, Yuri 2 Moriconi, Riccardo 2 Pérez Cáceres, Leslie 2 Rahnenführer, Jörg 2 Roustant, Olivier 2 Schmidt-Thieme, Lars 2 Su, Kaile 2 Tierney, Kevin 2 Tutunov, Rasul 2 Vallati, Mauro 2 Wang, Jun 2 Xu, Lin 1 Aboussalah, Amine Mohamed 1 Aggarwal, Charu C. 1 Ahmed, Mohamed Osama 1 Amadini, Roberto 1 Anastacio, Marie 1 Archetti, Francesco 1 Babaki, Behrouz 1 Bachoc, François 1 Baioletti, Marco 1 Bakirov, Rashid 1 Baldi, Pierre 1 Balint, Adrian 1 Banbara, Mutsunori 1 Baratchi, Mitra 1 Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas 1 Bayless, Sam 1 Ben Salem, Malek 1 Berden, Senne 1 Berg, Carl Fredrik 1 Bertsimas, Dimitris John 1 Bezerra, Leonardo C. T. 1 Bian, Jiang 1 Binois, Mickaël 1 Blanchard, Antoine B. 1 Bleukx, Ignace 1 Brazdil, Pavel B. 1 Brox, Thomas 1 Candelieri, Antonio 1 Cartis, Coralia 1 Cerutti, Federico 1 Chawshin, Kurdistan 1 Chen, Jian-Jia 1 Chen, Kuan-Hsun 1 Choi, Seungjin 1 Chrpa, Lukáš 1 Coenen, Lize 1 Corazza, Marco 1 Cordeau, Jean-François 1 de Oliveira, Sabrina M. 1 Decleyre, Nicholas 1 DeSalvo, Giulia 1 Di Bari, Gabriele 1 di Tollo, Giacomo 1 Dorigo, Marco 1 Dubois-Lacoste, Jérémie 1 Falkner, Stefan 1 Fasano, Giovanni 1 Fay, Damien 1 Feng, Jean 1 Fokkinga, Daniël 1 Frazier, Peter I. 1 Fréchette, Alexandre 1 Gabàs, Joel 1 Gabbrielli, Maurizio 1 Gabrys, Bogdan 1 Gamboa, Fabrice 1 Garcia, Alfredo Daniel 1 Giacomin, Massimiliano 1 Gillen, Daniel L. 1 Ginsbourger, David 1 Giráldez-Cru, Jesús 1 Giraud-Carrier, Christophe 1 Grabocka, Josif 1 Gullhav, Anders N. 1 Guns, Tias ...and 131 more Authors all top 5 Cited in 27 Serials 13 Artificial Intelligence 11 Machine Learning 5 Computers & Operations Research 5 Journal of Global Optimization 5 The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 4 Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 3 Annals of Operations Research 3 European Journal of Operational Research 3 Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 2 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2 Optimization Letters 2 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 2 SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification 1 Journal of Computational Physics 1 Optimization 1 Journal of Automated Reasoning 1 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 1 Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 1 SIAM Journal on Optimization 1 Optimization Methods & Software 1 Journal of Scheduling 1 Computational Geosciences 1 Fundamenta Informaticae 1 Quantitative Finance 1 Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 1 International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing 1 Diskretnyĭ Analiz i Issledovanie Operatsiĭ all top 5 Cited in 13 Fields 58 Computer science (68-XX) 29 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 11 Statistics (62-XX) 2 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 2 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 2 Geophysics (86-XX) 2 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 1 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) 1 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 1 Geometry (51-XX) 1 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 1 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) Citations by Year