Optimizing Deep Learning Hyperparameters Using Interpolation-Based Optimization
نویسندگان
1 Department of Industrial Mathematics, Admiralty University of Nigeria, Ibusa, Delta State, Nigeria.
2 Department of Mathematics, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria.
doi
10.30473/coam.2025.74381.1304چکیده
Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is essential for maximizing the performance of deep learning models. Traditional approaches, such as grid search and Bayesian Optimization (BO), are widely used but can be computationally expensive. We present Interpolation-Based Optimization (IBO), a novel framework that employs piecewise polynomial interpolation to estimate optimal hyperparameters from sparse evaluations efficiently. IBO achieves substantial computational savings by constructing deterministic interpolants with linear per-iteration complexity of O(n.d^3), in contrast to the cubic O(n^3) cost associated with BO. Empirical studies on the MNIST dataset show that IBO attains 98.0% accuracy with a 39% reduction in runtime (12 iterations vs. 18) and no statistically significant difference from BO, p = 0.12. In higher-dimensional, lower-cost settings, such as ResNet-18 on CIFAR-10, performance degrades, highlighting a trade-off between dimensionality and efficiency. More generally, IBO is well-suited for resource-constrained settings due to its simplicity, determinism, and computational efficiency. Future work will explore hybrid methods to address scalability problems and extend IBO to more complex modeling architectures, such as transformers.