COCO: The Experimental Procedure

We present a budget-free experimental setup and procedure for benchmarking numericaloptimization algorithms in a black-box scenario. This procedure can be applied with the COCO benchmarking platform. We describe initialization of and input to the algorithm and touch upon therelevance of termination and restarts.

Nikolaus Hansen, Tea Tusar, Olaf Mersmann, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff · 2016