Evaluating hyper-parameter tuning using random search in support vector machines for software effort estimation

 

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Autoři: Villalobos Arias, Leonardo, Quesada López, Christian Ulises, Guevara Coto, José, Martínez Porras, Alexandra, Jenkins Coronas, Marcelo
Médium: comunicación de congreso
Datum vydání:2020
Popis:Studies in software effort estimation (SEE) have explored the use of hyper-parameter tuning for machine learning algorithms (MLA) to improve the accuracy of effort estimates. In other contexts random search (RS) has shown similar results to grid search, while being less computationally-expensive. In this paper, we investigate to what extent the random search hyper-parameter tuning approach affects the accuracy and stability of support vector regression (SVR) in SEE. Results were compared to those obtained from ridge re- gression models and grid search-tuned models. A case study with four data sets extracted from the ISBSG 2018 repository shows that random search exhibits similar performance to grid search, ren- dering it an attractive alternative technique for hyper-parameter tuning. RS-tuned SVR achieved an increase of 0.227 standardized accuracy () with respect to default hyper-parameters. In addition, random search improved prediction stability of SVR models to a minimum ratio of 0.840. The analysis showed that RS-tuned SVR attained performance equivalent to GS-tuned SVR. Future work includes extending this research to cover other hyper-parameter tuning approaches and machine learning algorithms, as well as using additional data sets.
Země:Kérwá
Instituce:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Jazyk:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/102203
On-line přístup:https://doi.org/10.1145/3416508.3417121
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3416508.3417121
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/102203
Klíčové slovo:software effort estimation
empirical study
support vector machines
hyper-parameter tuning
random search
grid search