How to return integer value for hyper paramater?

[Chiu-Ping]

Hello expert,

For the package, is there a way to directly return the integer number for some hyperparameters? I'm just wondering if the round number will influence the final target value of the objective function, I guess it is a minor effect, but I'd like to have a precise number, not a round one. I really appreciate any help you can provide.

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[till-m]

Hey @Chiu-Ping,

I'm not sure I 100% understand your question. Presumably you've seen the example in the advanced tour on how to deal with integer parameters? If that is not good enough for you/you want quicker convergence, I would encourage you to read through #376 for an overview on the state of this problem. In particular, I think this comment on another issue might be of interest. Finally, I've written a simple implementation for parameter types based on this that might be of interest to you. You can see how that works here.

Let me know if this helps.

[Chiu-Ping]

Hi till,

Thanks for your reply. This is very helpful. And this is the right example to optimize the integer type.