Some of my most popular blogs on Medium are about libraries that I believe you should try. In this blog, I will focus on low-code machine learning libraries. The truth is that many data scientists believe that low-code libraries are shortcuts and should be avoided. I'm afraid I have to disagree! I think that low-code libraries should be included in our pipeline to help us make important decisions without wasting time.

Some of my most popular blogs on Medium are about libraries that I believe you should try. In this blog, I will focus on low-code machine learning libraries. The truth is that many data scientists believe that low-code libraries are shortcuts and should be avoided. I'm afraid I have to disagree! I think that low-code libraries should be included in our pipeline to help us make important decisions without wasting time.

In this paper we develop a Bayesian optimization based hyperparameter tuning framework inspired by statistical learning theory for classifiers. We utilize two key facts from PAC learning theory; the generalization bound will be higher for a small subset of data compared to the whole, and the highest accuracy for a small subset of data can be achieved with a simple model. We initially tune the hyperparameters on a small subset of training data using Bayesian optimization. While tuning the hyperparameters on the whole training data, we leverage the insights from the learning theory to seek more complex models. We realize this by using directional derivative signs strategically placed in the hyperparameter search space to seek a more complex model than the one obtained with small data. We demonstrate the performance of our method on the tasks of tuning the hyperparameters of several machine learning algorithms.