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python interface to the hyperparameter optimization tool SMAC.

Project description

Simple python wrapper to SMAC, a versatile tool for optimizing algorithm parameters.

fmin(objective, x0, xmin, xmax, x0_int, xmin_int, xmax_int, xcategorical, params)
   min_x f(x) s.t. xmin < x < xmax

 objective: The objective function that should be optimized.

Installation

Pip

pip install pysmac

Manual

python setup.py install

Example usage

Let’s take for example the Branin function. (Note that the branin function is not the ideal use case for SMAC, which is designed to be a global optimization tool for costly functions. That said, it’ll serves the purpose of checking that everything is working.)

import numpy as np

def branin(x):
    b = (5.1 / (4.*np.pi**2))
    c = (5. / np.pi)
    t = (1. / (8.*np.pi))
    return 1.*(x[1]-b*x[0]**2+c*x[0]-6.)**2+10.*(1-t)*np.cos(x[0])+10.

For x1 ∈ [-5, 10], x2 ∈ [0, 15] the function reaches a minimum value of: 0.397887.

Note: fmin accepts any function that has a parameter called x (the input array) and returns an objective value.

from pysmac.optimize import fmin

xmin, fval = fmin(branin, x0=(0,0),xmin=(-5, 0), xmax=(10, 15), max_evaluations=5000)

As soon as the evaluations are finished, we can check the output:

>>> xmin
{'x': array([ 3.14305644,  2.27827543])}

>>> fval
0.397917

Let’s run the objective function with the found parameters:

>>> branin(**xmin)
0.397917

Advanced

Custom arguments to the objective function:

Note: make sure there is no naming collission with the parameter names and the custom arguments.

def minfunc(x, custom_arg1, custom_arg2):
    print "custom_arg1:", custom_arg1
    print "custom_arg2:", custom_arg2
    return 1


xmin, fval = fmin(minfunc, x0=(0,0),xmin=(-5, 0), xmax=(10, 15),
                  max_evaluations=5000,
                  custom_arg1="test",
                  custom_arg2=123)

Integer parameters

Integer parameters can be encoded as follows:

def minfunc(x, x_int):
    print "x: ", x
    print "x_int: ", x_int
    return 1.

xmin, fval = fmin(minfunc,
                  x0=(0,0), xmin=(-5, 0), xmax=(10, 15),
                  x0_int=(0,0), xmin_int=(-5, 0), xmax_int=(10, 15),
                  max_evaluations=5000)

Categorical parameters

Categorical parameters can be specified as a dictionary of lists of values they can take on, e.g.:

categorical_params = {"param1": [1,2,3,4,5,6,7],
                      "param2": ["string1", "string2", "string3"]}

def minfunc(x_categorical):
    print "param1: ", x_categorical["param1"]
    print "param2: ", x_categorical["param2"]
    return 1.

xmin, fval = fmin(minfunc,
                  x_categorical=categorical_params,
                  max_evaluations=5000)

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