The Tuning Challenge
Finding the right hyperparameters can make or break your model. Manual tuning is tedious. Grid search is exhaustive but slow. RandomizedSearchCV samples parameter combinations efficiently, and MLflow tracks every result.
Setup
import mlflow
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.model_selection import RandomizedSearchCV
from sklearn.datasets import load_wine
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from scipy.stats import randint, uniform
wine = load_wine()
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
wine.data, wine.target, test_size=0.2, random_state=42
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param_distributions = {
"n_estimators": randint(50, 500),
"max_depth": randint(3, 20),
"min_samples_split": randint(2, 20),
"min_samples_leaf": randint(1, 10),
"max_features": uniform(0.1, 0.9),
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mlflow.autolog()
with mlflow.start_run(run_name="hyperparameter-search"):
search = RandomizedSearchCV(
RandomForestClassifier(random_state=42),
param_distributions=param_distributions,
n_iter=50,
cv=5,
scoring="accuracy",
random_state=42,
n_jobs=-1,
)
search.fit(X_train, y_train)
# Log best results
mlflow.log_metric("best_cv_score", search.best_score_)
mlflow.log_params(
{f"best_{k}": v for k, v in search.best_params_.items()}
)
# Evaluate on test set
test_accuracy = search.score(X_test, y_test)
mlflow.log_metric("test_accuracy", test_accuracy)
print(f"Best CV Score: {search.best_score_:.4f}")
print(f"Test Accuracy: {test_accuracy:.4f}")
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After running the search, open the MLflow UI to:
- Sort runs by accuracy — find the top performers instantly
- Parallel coordinates plot — visualize how parameters interact
- Scatter plots — plot any parameter vs any metric
- Compare top runs — select multiple runs for side-by-side comparison
Tips for Better Tuning
- Start wide, then narrow — broad ranges first, then refine around promising values
- Use cross-validation —
cv=5gives more reliable estimates - Log everything — MLflow autolog captures all parameters automatically
- Set random seeds — for reproducibility across experiments
- Increase n_iter gradually — 20-50 iterations is usually enough to find good regions
Next Steps
Once you've found optimal parameters, package the model and deploy it. Our MLflow for Kubernetes course covers the complete pipeline.
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