no code implementations • 16 Apr 2019 • Diederick Vermetten, Sander van Rijn, Thomas Bäck, Carola Doerr
An analysis of module activation indicates which modules are most crucial for the different phases of optimizing each of the 24 benchmark problems.
5 code implementations • 11 Oct 2018 • Carola Doerr, Hao Wang, Furong Ye, Sander van Rijn, Thomas Bäck
Given as input algorithms and problems written in C or Python, it provides as output a statistical evaluation of the algorithms' performance by means of the distribution on the fixed-target running time and the fixed-budget function values.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2018 • Carola Doerr, Furong Ye, Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck
Marking an important step towards filling this gap, we adjust the COCO software to pseudo-Boolean optimization problems, and obtain from this a benchmarking environment that allows a fine-grained empirical analysis of discrete black-box heuristics.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2016 • Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Thomas Bäck
Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications.