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by Zephyr314 2773 days ago
SigOpt (YC W15) has an academic program that allows full access to their optimization platform for academic use [1]. Hundreds of academics around the world have used it and there are already dozens of papers that have been published that have benefited from it [2].

These techniques can be orders of magnitude more efficient than a standard hyperparameter search and really cut down the barrier to entry for these types of results.

[1]: https://sigopt.com/solution/for-academia/

[2]: https://sigopt.com/research/publications/