Convenience Method for Adding Previous Runs?

[benjamc]

Restoring SMAC takes some lines of code. What do you think, @renesass @dengdifan @timruhkopf , should we also add a convenience method? E.g. Optuna allows to add previous trials with an add_trial() method.

[mlindauer]

I think that makes a lot of sense. It will make it easier to compare different optimizers with each other if we can block the initial design.

[mfeurer]

Would this be 1/2 of a suggest&report interface?

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[renesass]

I added the option to pass a runhistory in development 2.0. The initial configs and incumbent are derived from the runhistory directly. Does that fix the problem?

[mfeurer]

Passing a runhistory still requires to know about runhistories. A function add_trial() or similar would make it easy for the user to just write a for-loop and add results one by one.