A distance for mixed-variable and hierarchical domains with meta variables

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Autori principali: Hallé-Hannan, Edward, Audet, Charles, Diouane, Youssef, Digabel, Sébastien Le, Saves, Paul
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Hallé-Hannan, Edward
Audet, Charles
Diouane, Youssef
Digabel, Sébastien Le
Saves, Paul
author_facet Hallé-Hannan, Edward
Audet, Charles
Diouane, Youssef
Digabel, Sébastien Le
Saves, Paul
contents Heterogeneous datasets emerge in various machine learning and optimization applications that feature different input sources, types or formats. Most models or methods do not natively tackle heterogeneity. Hence, such datasets are often partitioned into smaller and simpler ones, which may limit the generalizability or performance, especially when data is limited. The first main contribution of this work is a modeling framework that generalizes hierarchical, tree-structured, variable-size or conditional search frameworks. The framework models mixed-variable and hierarchical domains in which variables may be continuous, integer, or categorical, with some identified as meta when they influence the structure of the problem. The second main contribution is a novel distance that compares any pair of mixed-variable points that do not share the same variables, allowing to use whole heterogeneous datasets that reside in mixed-variable and hierarchical domains with meta variables. The contributions are illustrated through regression and classification experiments using simple distance-based models applied to datasets of hyperparameters with corresponding performance scores.
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spellingShingle A distance for mixed-variable and hierarchical domains with meta variables
Hallé-Hannan, Edward
Audet, Charles
Diouane, Youssef
Digabel, Sébastien Le
Saves, Paul
Machine Learning
62-xx, 90-xx
Heterogeneous datasets emerge in various machine learning and optimization applications that feature different input sources, types or formats. Most models or methods do not natively tackle heterogeneity. Hence, such datasets are often partitioned into smaller and simpler ones, which may limit the generalizability or performance, especially when data is limited. The first main contribution of this work is a modeling framework that generalizes hierarchical, tree-structured, variable-size or conditional search frameworks. The framework models mixed-variable and hierarchical domains in which variables may be continuous, integer, or categorical, with some identified as meta when they influence the structure of the problem. The second main contribution is a novel distance that compares any pair of mixed-variable points that do not share the same variables, allowing to use whole heterogeneous datasets that reside in mixed-variable and hierarchical domains with meta variables. The contributions are illustrated through regression and classification experiments using simple distance-based models applied to datasets of hyperparameters with corresponding performance scores.
title A distance for mixed-variable and hierarchical domains with meta variables
topic Machine Learning
62-xx, 90-xx
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13073