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title: "Hyperparameter optimization research: papers and trends"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “hyperparameter optimization” appeared in 1,155 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (836), operations research (124) and statistics (96)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “hyperparameter optimization” appeared in 1,155 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (836), operations research (124) and statistics (96). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “hyperparameter optimization”

Research on “hyperparameter optimization” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “hyperparameter optimization” appeared in 1,155 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (836), operations research (124) and statistics (96).
- 245 of them were published in 2025, against 29 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were SRM Institute of Science and Technology (17), Mansoura University (12) and Saveetha University (12).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (126), Neural Computing and Applications (98) and Knowledge-Based Systems (61).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey of Convolutional Neural Networks: Analysis, Applications, and Prospects” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021), with 5,272 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 22 | 15 | 33 | 48 | 99 | 106 | 104 | 132 | 178 | 99 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 21 | 26 | 20 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 18 | 15 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 29 | 29 | 43 | 69 | 124 | 140 | 143 | 185 | 245 | 148 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 126 |
| 2 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 98 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 61 |
| 4 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 26 |
| 6 | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | 21 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | 17 |
| 2 | Mansoura University | 12 |
| 3 | [Saveetha University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/saveetha-university.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [Deakin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/deakin-university.md) | 10 |
| 5 | Kafrelsheikh University | 9 |
| 6 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 8 |
| 7 | Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation | 8 |
| 8 | [Leiden University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/leiden-university.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 216 |
| 2 | India | 138 |
| 3 | United States | 75 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 49 |
| 5 | Egypt | 41 |
| 6 | Turkey | 37 |
| 7 | Australia | 29 |
| 8 | Italy | 28 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 25 |
| 10 | Spain | 24 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 62 |
| 2 | [particle swarm optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/particle-swarm-optimization.md) | 50 |
| 3 | Bayesian optimization | 48 |
| 4 | [metaheuristic optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/metaheuristic-optimization.md) | 42 |
| 5 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 41 |
| 6 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 37 |
| 7 | [XGBoost](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/xgboost.md) | 36 |
| 8 | [random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/random-forest.md) | 32 |
| 9 | [ensemble learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/ensemble-learning.md) | 28 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,272 | 81.4 | [A Survey of Convolutional Neural Networks: Analysis, Applications, and Prospects](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3084827) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-06-10 | Zewen Li, Fan Liu, Wenjie Yang et al. |
| 2 | 2,995 | 40.3 | [A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09896-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-08-24 | Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz |
| 3 | 2,181 | 36.8 | [Tabular data: Deep learning is not all you need](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.11.011) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-11-26 | Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Amitai Armon |
| 4 | 1,840 | 25.6 | [CatBoost for big data: an interdisciplinary review](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00369-8) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2020-11-04 | John Hancock, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar |
| 5 | 1,719 | 24.1 | [AutoML: A survey of the state-of-the-art](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106622) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2020-11-24 | Xin James He, Kaiyong Zhao, Xiaowen Chu |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “hyperparameter optimization”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/hyperparameter-optimization

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).