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Neural MMO creator Joseph Suarez argues hyperparameter-free optimizers fail in practice, disputing Vikhyat's proposal to prioritize them

Suarez says hyperparameter tuning algorithms work in practice

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too much time is being spent making optimizers marginally faster. what we really need is hparam-free optimizers

11:40 AM Ā· May 25, 2026 View on X

@vikhyatk it doesn't work. hparam tuning algorithms do work though

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too much time is being spent making optimizers marginally faster. what we really need is hparam-free optimizers

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