SMAC3¶
SMAC3 is a tool for algorithm configuration to optimise the parameters of arbitrary algorithms across a set of instances. This also includes hyper-parameter optimisation of machine learning algorithms.
SMAC3 is available as a module on Apocrita.
Usage¶
To run the default installed version of SMAC3, simply load the
smac3 module:
$ module load smac3
Usage: smac --scenario <scenario file>
For full usage documentation see the online documentation.
Example job¶
Serial job¶
Here is an example job using 1 core and 1GB of RAM:
#!/bin/bash
#$ -cwd
#$ -j y
#$ -pe smp 1
#$ -l h_vmem=1G
#$ -l h_rt=1:0:0
module load smac3
smac --scenario <scenario file>