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0.4.0 - 2020-12-30

This release increases the supported version of python to 3.8 and also includes changes in the installation requirements, where pandas and scikit-optimize packages have been updated to support higher versions.

Internal improvements

  • Added github actions.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #210: Integrate Scikit-Optimize for benchmarking.

0.3.12 - 2020-09-08

In this release BTB includes two new tuners, GCP and GCPEi. which use a GaussianProcessRegressor meta-model from sklearn.gaussian_process applying copulas.univariate.Univariate transformations to the input data and afterwards reverts it for the predictions.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #15: Implement a GaussianCopulaProcessRegressor.
  • Issue #205: Separate datasets from MLChallenge.
  • Issue #208: Implement GaussianCopulaProcessMetaModel.

0.3.11 - 2020-06-12

With this release we fix the AX.optimize tuning function by casting the values of the hyperparameters to the type of value that they represent.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #201: Fix AX.optimize malfunction.

0.3.10 - 2020-05-29

With this release we integrate a new tuning library, SMAC, with our benchmarking process. A new leaderboard including this library has been generated. The following two tuners from this library have been added:

  • SMAC4HPO: Bayesian optimization using a Random Forest model of pyrfr.
  • HB4AC: Uses Successive Halving for proposals.

Internal improvements

  • Renamed btb_benchmark/tuners to btb_benchmark/tuning_functions.
  • Ready to use tuning functions from btb_benchmark/tuning_functions.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #195: Integrate SMAC for benchmarking.

0.3.9 - 2020-05-18

With this release we integrate a new tuning library, Ax, with our benchmarking process. A new leaderboard including this library has been generated.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #194: Integrate Ax for benchmarking.

0.3.8 - 2020-05-08

This version adds a new functionality which allows running the benchmarking framework on a Kubernetes cluster. By doing this, the benchmarking process can be executed distributedly, which reduces the time necessary to generate a new leaderboard.

Internal improvements

  • btb_benchmark.kubernetes.run_dask_function: Run dask function inside a pod using the given config.
  • btb_benchmark.kubernetes.run_on_kubernetes: Start a Dask Cluster using dask-kubernetes and run a function.
  • Documentation updated.
  • Jupyter notebooks with examples on how to run the benchmarking process and how to run it on kubernetes.

0.3.7 - 2020-04-15

This release brings a new benchmark framework with public leaderboard. As part of our benchmarking efforts we will run the framework at every release and make the results public. In each run we compare it to other tuners and optimizer libraries. We are constantly adding new libraries for comparison. If you have suggestions for a tuner library we should include in our compraison, please contact us via email at dailabmit@gmail.com.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #159: Implement more MLChallenges and generate a public leaderboard.
  • Issue #180: Update BTB Benchmarking module.
  • Issue #182: Integrate HyperOPT with benchmarking.
  • Issue #184: Integrate dask to bencharking.

0.3.6 - 2020-03-04

This release improves BTBSession error handling and allows Tunables with cardinality equal to 1 to be scored with BTBSession. Also, we provide a new documentation for this version of BTB.

Internal Improvements

Improved documentation, unittests and integration tests.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #164: Improve documentation for v0.3.5+.
  • Issue #166: Wrong erro raised by BTBSession on too many errors.
  • Issue #170: Tuner has no scores attribute until record is run once.
  • Issue #175: BTBSession crashes when record is not performed.
  • Issue #176: BTBSession fails to select a proper Tunable when normalized_scores becomse None.

0.3.5 - 2020-01-21

With this release we are improving BTBSession by adding private attributes, or not intended to be public / modified by the user and also improving the documentation of it.

Internal Improvements

Improved docstrings, unittests and public interface of BTBSession.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #162: Fix session with the given comments on PR 156.

0.3.4 - 2019-12-24

With this release we introduce a BTBSession class. This class represents the process of selecting and tuning several tunables until the best possible configuration fo a specific scorer is found. We also have improved and fixed some minor bugs arround the code (described in the issues below).

New Features

  • BTBSession that makes BTB more user friendly.

Internal Improvements

Improved unittests, removed old dependencies, added more MLChallenges and fixed an issue with the bound methods.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #145: Implement BTBSession.
  • Issue #155: Set defaut to None for CategoricalHyperParam is not possible.
  • Issue #157: Metamodel _MODEL_KWARGS_DEFAULT becomes mutable.
  • Issue #158: Remove mock dependency from the package.
  • Issue #160: Add more Machine Learning Challenges and more estimators.

0.3.3 - 2019-12-11

Fix a bug where creating an instance of Tuner ends in an error.

Internal Improvements

Improve unittests to use spec_set in order to detect errors while mocking an object.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #153: Bug with tunner logger message that avoids creating the Tunner.

0.3.2 - 2019-12-10

With this release we add the new benchmark challenge MLChallenge which allows users to perform benchmarking over datasets with machine learning estimators, and also some new features to make the workflow easier.

New Features

  • New MLChallenge challenge that allows performing crossvalidation over datasets and machine learning estimators.
  • New from_dict function for Tunable class in order to instantiate from a dictionary that contains information over hyperparameters.
  • New default value for each hyperparameter type.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #68: Remove btb.tuning.constants module.
  • Issue #120: Tuner repr not helpful.
  • Issue #121: HyperParameter repr not helpful.
  • Issue #141: Imlement propper logging to the tuning section.
  • Issue #150: Implement Tunable from_dict.
  • Issue #151: Add default value for hyperparameters.
  • Issue #152: Support None as a choice in CategoricalHyperPrameters.

0.3.1 - 2019-11-25

With this release we introduce a benchmark module for BTB which allows the users to perform a benchmark over a series of challenges.

New Features

  • New benchmark module.
  • New submodule named challenges to work toghether with benchmark module.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #139: Implement a Benchmark for BTB

0.3.0 - 2019-11-11

With this release we introduce an improved BTB that has a major reorganization of the project with emphasis on an easier way of interacting with BTB and an easy way of developing, testing and contributing new acquisition functions, metamodels, tuners and hyperparameters.

New project structure

The new major reorganization comes with the btb.tuning module. This module provides everything needed for the tuning process and comes with three new additions Acquisition, Metamodel and Tunable. Also there is an update to the Hyperparamters and Tuners. This changes are meant to help developers and contributors to easily develop, test and contribute new Tuners.

New API

There is a slightly new way of using BTB as the new Tunable class is introduced, that is meant to be the only requiered object to instantiate a Tuner. This Tunable class represents a collection of HyperParams that need to be tuned as a whole, at once. Now, in order to create a Tuner, a Tunable instance must be created first with the hyperparameters of the objective function.

New Features

  • New Hyperparameters that allow an easier interaction for the final user.
  • New Tunable class that manages a collection of Hyperparameters.
  • New Tuner class that is a python mixin that requieres of Acquisition and Metamodel as parents. Also now works with a single Tunable object.
  • New Acquisition class, meant to implement an acquisition function to be inherit by a Tuner.
  • New Metamodel class, meant to implement everything that a certain model needs and be inherit by the Tuner.
  • Reorganization of the selection module to follow a similar API to tuning.

Resolved Issues

  • Issue #131: Reorganize the project structure.
  • Issue #133: Implement Tunable class to control a list of hyperparameters.
  • Issue #134: Implementation of Tuners for the new structure.
  • Issue #140: Reorganize selectors.

0.2.5

Bug Fixes

  • Issue #115: HyperParameter subclass instantiation not working properly

0.2.4

Internal Improvements

  • Issue #62: Test for None in HyperParameter.cast instead of HyperParameter.__init__

Bug fixes

  • Issue #98: Categorical hyperparameters do not support None as input
  • Issue #89: Fix the computation of avg_rewards in BestKReward

0.2.3

Bug Fixes

  • Issue #84: Error in GP tuning when only one parameter is present bug
  • Issue #96: Fix pickling of HyperParameters
  • Issue #98: Fix implementation of the GPEi tuner

0.2.2

Internal Improvements

  • Updated documentation

Bug Fixes

  • Issue #94: Fix unicode param_type caused error on python 2.

0.2.1

Bug fixes

  • Issue #74: ParamTypes.STRING tunables do not work

0.2.0

New Features

  • New Recommendation module
  • New HyperParameter types
  • Improved documentation and examples
  • Fully tested Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 compatibility
  • HyperParameter copy and deepcopy support
  • Replace print statements with logging

Internal Improvements

  • Integrated with Travis-CI
  • Exhaustive unit testing
  • New implementation of HyperParameter
  • Tuner builds a grid of real values instead of indices
  • Resolve Issue #29: Make args explicit in __init__ methods
  • Resolve Issue #34: make all imports explicit

Bug Fixes

  • Fix error from mixing string/numerical hyperparameters
  • Inverse transform for categorical hyperparameter returns single item

0.1.2

  • Issue #47: Add missing requirements in v0.1.1 setup.py
  • Issue #46: Error on v0.1.1: 'GP' object has no attribute 'X'

0.1.1

  • First release.