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Glossary: ML Beyond the Basics

Sampler, trial, study

Also written: sampler, trial, study, objective

Optuna's vocabulary: the sampler picks which settings to try next, a trial is one tried set of settings, and a study is the whole search. The objective is the function that takes a trial and returns a score.

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OptunaTPE (Tree-structured Parzen Estimator)