Stefan Heid

Is there any workaround? my searchspace is very large. i would like to give smac at least a little hint by starting close to a usefull spot.

### Workaround A Modified sobol_design.py by prepending the default configuration https://github.com/automl/SMAC3/blob/2b27e0d063bdb485e07a7b76e9ce41e05cfbbf71/smac/initial_design/default_configuration_design.py#L27-L29 ### Workaround B replace 'SobolDesign' with 'None' https://github.com/automl/SMAC3/blob/2b27e0d063bdb485e07a7b76e9ce41e05cfbbf71/smac/facade/smac_hpo_facade.py#L39 # Cause I tracked down the bug. however, i am not...

The documentation is not very verbose on what Sobol even is.

Has basically the same effect as Workaround B, but yours is obvoiusly better.

@mfeurer is it recommended to disable sobol like https://github.com/automl/SMAC3/issues/533#issuecomment-553547011

Thanks for the information. workaround A leads SMAC to prematurely stop after it finished its n+1 initial configurations (while n is the number SOBOL calcualtes from the time budget) so...

It only happens for my modified version. Therefore i would not deem it a bug in smac. (The Initializer seems to assume it has 25 elements, as it has 26...

solved by skiping one sobol element [MySobol.py.txt](https://github.com/automl/SMAC3/files/3863453/MySobol.py.txt) ```python from MySobol import SobolDesign smac = SMAC4HPO(scenario=scenario, tae_runner=tae, initial_design=SobolDesign) ```

but maybe put the colors directly after the link. otherwise it might be quite confusing with linebreaks

I made some implementation ideas in the duplicate issue. Would be interested to help making this reality, but there are some design things to consider, so i think it makes...