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Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator: Understanding Its Algorithm Components and Their Roles for Better Empirical Performance
Shuhei Watanabe
Recent advances in many domains require more and more complicated experiment design. Such complicated experiments often have many parameters, which necessitate parameter tuning. Tree-structured Parzen estimator (TPE), a Bayesian optimization method, is widely used in recent parameter tuning frameworks. Despite its popularity, the roles of each control parameter and the algorithm intuition have not been discussed so far. In this tutorial, we will identify the roles of each control parameter and their impacts on hyperparameter optimization using a diverse set of benchmarks. We compare our recommended setting drawn from the ablation study with baseline methods and demonstrate that our recommended setting improves the performance of TPE. Our TPE implementation is available at https://github.com/nabenabe0928/tpe/tree/single-opt.
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