topic Why isn’t automatically tuning the selected options permitted? in SAS Software for Learning Community

Why isn’t automatically tuning the selected options permitted?

anniewong — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:11:02 GMT

A similar feature is available in the “Build Model” module on the Learner platform, but it isn’t supported in the Flow or in the SAS code version.

This makes me less inclined to learn SAS code, especially when Python libraries make grid-search hyperparameter tuning so much easier. I believe hyperparameter tuning is absolutely essential from a data-science perspective.

And some basic function for oversampling build in function is missing . How SAS handling such kind of imbalance data?

Re: Why isn’t automatically tuning the selected options permitted?

antonbcristina — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:58:35 GMT

Hi @anniewong, autotuning is disabled in Viya for Learners because this is a teaching and learning platform that seeks to support 7,000 users a month, globally and autotuning is resource intensive and affects the performance for other users by utilizing a LOT of resources.

We have a very low-cost SAS Viya option available for academics that has autotuning enabled. If you are interested in learning more, please contact academic@sas.com.