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Re:Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-fre... by snthpy on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:04PM (#18727939)
How does this compare to hyperopt?
Re:Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-fre... by oteytaud on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:29PM (#18728818)
To the best of my knowledge, Hyperopt is limited to random search and Parzen variants. We have more algorithms, and include test functions, deal with noise. On the other hand, in Hyperopt conditional variables are naturally handled, whereas for the moment Nevergrad needs user manual work on this. Both frameworks are asynchronous.
Re:Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-fre... by oteytaud on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:49AM (#18741020)
... incidentally Hyperopt has the advantage of considering conditional domains; we might either do the same or combine Nevergrad with Hyperopt...