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automl-phase-1

2nd place submission to the AutoML competition - phase 1

A reduced implementation of freeze thaw Bayesian optimization

Swersky, K., Snoek, J. & Adams, R. P. Freeze-Thaw Bayesian Optimization. arXiv preprint 1406.3896 (2014). at http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3896

using random forest and gradient boosting machines as the base estimators.

Code was written in a hurry.