GenericWrapper4AC swMATH ID: 38659 Software Authors: Eggensperger, Katharina; Lindauer, Marius; Hutter, Frank Description: Pitfalls and best practices in algorithm configuration. Good parameter settings are crucial to achieve high performance in many areas of artificial intelligence (AI), such as propositional satisfiability solving, AI planning, scheduling, and machine learning (in particular deep learning). Automated algorithm configuration methods have recently received much attention in the AI community since they replace tedious, irreproducible and error-prone manual parameter tuning and can lead to new state-of-the-art performance. However, practical applications of algorithm configuration are prone to several (often subtle) pitfalls in the experimental design that can render the procedure ineffective. We identify several common issues and propose best practices for avoiding them. As one possibility for automatically handling as many of these as possible, we also propose a tool called GenericWrapper4AC. Homepage: https://jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/11420 Source Code: https://github.com/automl/GenericWrapper4AC Related Software: irace; Paramils; EGO; Auto-WEKA; Agent57; AlexNet; MiniGrid; BOHB; DARTS; IMPALA; ImageNet; Genocop; OpenAI Gym; Hyperband; BoTorch; JAX; MuJoCo; Tensor2Tensor; PyTorch; Omni-optimizer Cited in: 5 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year Pitfalls and best practices in algorithm configuration. Zbl 1489.68216Eggensperger, Katharina; Lindauer, Marius; Hutter, Frank 2019 all top 5 Cited by 25 Authors 2 Hutter, Frank 2 Lindauer, Marius 1 Antonio, Candelieri 1 Archetti, Francesco 1 Aspar, Pelin 1 Biedenkapp, André 1 Calandra, Roberto 1 Candelieri, Antonio 1 Deutz, André H. 1 Eggensperger, Katharina 1 Eimer, Theresa 1 Emmerich, Michael T. M. 1 Faust, Aleksandra 1 Giordani, Ilaria 1 Grimme, Christian 1 Kerschke, Pascal 1 Miao, Yingjie 1 Parker-Holder, Jack 1 Perego, Riccardo 1 Preuß, Mike 1 Rajan, Raghu 1 Song, Xingyou 1 Trautmann, Heike 1 Wang, Hao 1 Zhang, Baohe Cited in 3 Serials 2 The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 1 Computers & Operations Research 1 Journal of Global Optimization Cited in 3 Fields 2 Computer science (68-XX) 2 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) Citations by Year