What is the purpose of `SparkTrials` in Hyperopt?

To store the results of hyperparameter tuning in a Spark DataFrame

To enable parallel evaluation of hyperparameter trials across a Spark cluster

To automatically select the best hyperparameters without running trials

To train a single model on a Spark cluster

A team is tuning a logistic regression model with two hyperparameters: regularization strength C in {0.01, 0.1, 1, 10} and penalty in {'l1', 'l2'}. They have limited compute and want to evaluate every combination exactly once. Which approach should they use?

Use RandomizedSearchCV with n_iter=8 and param_distributions={'C': [0.01, 0.1, 1, 10], 'penalty': ['l1', 'l2']}

Use Hyperopt with space={'C': hp.uniform('C', 0.01, 10), 'penalty': hp.choice('penalty', ['l1', 'l2'])} and max_evals=8

Use Hyperopt with space={'C': hp.choice('C', [0.01, 0.1, 1, 10]), 'penalty': hp.choice('penalty', ['l1', 'l2'])} and max_evals=8

Use scikit-learn's GridSearchCV with param_grid={'C': [0.01, 0.1, 1, 10], 'penalty': ['l1', 'l2']}

What is the primary purpose of the Hyperopt `fmin` function?

To minimize an objective function over a hyperparameter search space using a specified optimization algorithm

To train a model and return its accuracy on a validation set

To evaluate a fixed grid of hyperparameters and return the best combination

To automatically select the best machine learning algorithm for a given dataset

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What is the purpose of `SparkTrials` in Hyperopt?

When configuring `SparkTrials`, which of the following is a valid parameter to set?

A team is tuning a logistic regression model with two hyperparameters: regularization strength C in {0.01, 0.1, 1, 10} and penalty in {'l1', 'l2'}. They have limited compute and want to evaluate every combination exactly once. Which approach should they use?

What is the primary purpose of the Hyperopt `fmin` function?

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