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Combination of components to maximize a multi-criteria objective function

I have been given a list of components, with various “contributions” (or weights) which put together in a weighted combination have a combined aggregate effect. I then have the task of suggesting ...
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How can I interpret the value returned by score(X) method of sklearn.neighbors.KernelDensity?

For sklearn.neighbors.KernelDensity, its score(X) method according to the sklearn KDE documentation says: Compute the log-...
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Bayesian hyperparameter optimization, is it worth it?

In the Deep Learning book by Goodfellow et al., section 11.4.5 (p. 438), the following claims can be found: Currently, we cannot unambiguously recommend Bayesian hyperparameter optimization as an ...
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Is it normal to see oscillations in tested hyperparameters during bayesian optimisation?

I've been trying out bayesian hyperparameter optimisation (with TPE) on a simple CNN applied to the MNIST handwritten digit dataset. I noticed that over iterations of the optimisation loop, the tested ...
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What is a "surrogate model"?

In the following paragraph from the book Automated Machine Learning: Methods, Systems, Challenges (by Frank Hutter et al.) In this section we first give a brief introduction to Bayesian ...
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Are there Python packages for recent Bayesian optimization methods? [closed]

I want to try and compare different optimization methods in some datasets. I know that in scikit-learn there are some corresponding functions for the grid and random search optimizations. However, I ...
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