@niketan - I don't have a time preference, please give me any time (or) date for meeting at your convenience. Thanks.
Hi Mike, This issue [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYSTEMML-1159] has been marked as a blocker. I've gone through the reference paper you have attached there. In this paper, to my knowledge is stressing out on the point that 1. `random sampling` is better & is equivalent to expert trained or better than `Grid search`. 2. They proved that with some `mnist` variants. So, this random sampling can simulated by `Sobol Sequence generation`, method that we are trying implement for Bayesian optimization case. Conclusion: Niketan, Sasha and I trying to schedule a conversation, can you please join us. Thanks, Janardhan
