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Benchmark framework to easily compare Bayesian optimization methods on real machine learning tasks
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Explanation to the 'visible_to_opt' and 'generalization' #9

Open Alaya-in-Matrix opened 4 years ago

Alaya-in-Matrix commented 4 years ago

I found no explanation of the visible_to_opt and generalization in the documentation, are they some kind of linear transformation to the normalized mean score?

rdturnermtl commented 4 years ago

The visible_to_opt is the score that the optimizer sees (e.g, CV error in a ML hyper-parameter tuning context). Whereas generalization is meant to be a related metric the optimizer does not get to see (e.g, error on held-out test set in a ML hyper-parameter tuning context).

Does that make sense? If so, a note can be added to the docs.

Alaya-in-Matrix commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your explanation! I think would be nice if they are also documented