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SMAC3: A Versatile Bayesian Optimization Package for Hyperparameter Optimization
https://automl.github.io/SMAC3/v2.1.0/
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What is the reasoning behind n_retries #1086

Open mfeurer opened 7 months ago

mfeurer commented 7 months ago

The new SMAC rewrite introduced an argument n_retries, however, it is not clear to me why it was introduced. Could you please explain the reasoning why it is there?

I am asking because SMAC decided to stop an evaluation despite the budget not being exhausted. However, n_retries is not something that is exposed in the Facade, not something that is researched or described, and therefore very surprising to me.