SMAC driver for Hyperopt search spaces

[James Bergstra]

It would be nice to use SMAC as an optimization engine for Hyperopt's (search-space, function) pairs. What's required to make that happen?

As far as I know, SMAC requires as input two things:

1. a description of the configuration space

2. a program that accepts one configuration and returns a result to SMAC somehow.

If that's it, this shouldn't be too hard.  The "expr_to_config" function is close to the right thing for implementing (1) and we can design something for the scripts/ folder that handles (2) I think, but I'm not clear on what interface it would need.

Am I forgetting something?

- James

[Marvin Kastner]

Hi James,

in a later publication of yours I have seen that you compared SMAC with TPE. Did you implement some kind of adapter?

Or did you just have two separately implemented experiments?

Best wishes

Marvin