On: Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimizatio...

[usefulcat]

I know a guy who told me 8 years ago about an idea he had for a "black box" optimization consulting service. You give him a pile of data, he uses ML to optimize for whatever.

[minimaxir → usefulcat]

That's known nowadays as AutoML. Google recently released AutoML products for image and text classification. https://cloud.google.com/automl/

[abhgh → minimaxir]

FYI there is also a different "automl" suite of libraries maintained by Frank Hutters lab at the University of Freiburg - [1]. His group has been leading a lot of research in the area of hyperparameter tuning.

[1] https://www.automl.org/