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Automatic Search for Parsimonious Models

AutoParsimony

13 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

The principle of parsimony, also known as Occam's razor, elucidates the preference for the simplest explanation that provides optimal results when faced with multiple options. Thus, we can assert that the principle of parsimony is justified by "the assumption that is both the simplest and contains all the necessary information required to comprehend the experiment at hand." This principle finds application in various scenarios or events in our daily lives, including predictions in Data Science models.

It is widely recognized that a less complex model will produce more stable predictions, exhibit greater resilience to noise and disturbances, and be more manageable for maintenance and analysis. Additionally, reducing the number of features can lead to further cost savings by diminishing the use of sensors, lowering energy consumption, minimizing information acquisition costs, reducing maintenance requirements, and mitigating the necessity to retrain models due to feature fluctuations caused by noise, outliers, data drift, etc.

The concurrent optimization of hyperparameters (HO) and feature selection (FS) for achieving Parsimonious Model Selection (PMS) is an ongoing area of active research. Nonetheless, the effective selection of appropriate hyperparameters and feature subsets presents a challenging combinatorial problem, frequently requiring the application of efficient heuristic methods.

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

9 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
feature selection10
Model Selection5
Hyperparameter Optimization4
Bayesian Optimization1
Demand Forecasting1
Diversity1
Feature Engineering1
Scheduling1
regression1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with AutoParsimony: 2015 to 2023, peak 3 3 0 2015: 2 papers 2015 2016: 1 paper 2016 2017: 1 paper 2017 2018: 2 papers 2018 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 0 papers 2020 2021: 3 papers 2021 2022: 0 papers 2022 2023: 3 papers 2023
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (13 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

Components: the archive holds no method-to-method composition, so PwC's Components table cannot be rebuilt; the Papers list carries no Results column for the same reason (the archive does not join its leaderboard rows to method tags).

Categories archive 2025-07-28

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