Also see http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W12/W12-3159.pdf
(And thanks for those pointers, Barry.)
Kevin



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Barry Haddow <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Hi Prashant
>
> PRO also assumes that the model score depends linearly on the weights, as
> do the mira variants. There have been some attempts at "tuning" of
> hyperparameters, but it's a tricky problem. For example, see:
>
> http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_0650.pdf (for parsing)
> http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-2229.pdf
>
> cheers - Barry
>
>
>
> On 17/01/14 18:08, Hieu Hoang wrote:
>
>    interesting. I don't think you can use MERT because it assumes that
> there is a linear relationship between weights and model scores.
>
>  However, I think you can use PRO.
>
>  I added a feature function
>     HyperParameterAsWeight
>  that uses it's weights to change some hyper-parameters such as stack size
> and beam width.
>
>  It's a hack, but I hope it's a start of what you want to do. Change it
> however you want. I haven't tested it so it's up to you to test it
>
>  Fyi, the commit is here
>
> https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/commit/20e7d078a6ed23e6a293801955ba09e622f993df
>
>
>
>
>
> On 17 January 2014 16:10, Prashant Mathur <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am tuning the standard models with an extended feature.
>> As far as I understood, we can tune only the feature weights in mert.
>> In my case I have some more hyper parameters that I want to tune
>> together with the feature weights .. for example. feature learning rate.
>> Once the nbest-list is created these parameters cannot have any effect
>> on the list, but they are useful for generating a better nbest-list.
>> Is there a way to tune all the parameters and hyper parameters together?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Prashant
>>
>> PS: Till now I was tuning these hyper parameters using Simplex.
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