# COCO: The Experimental Procedure

Source: [COCO: The Experimental Procedure](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa627a1e209131ce9f9715>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2025-10-25T20:20:33.540Z

Authors: Nikolaus Hansen, Tea Tusar, Olaf Mersmann, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff

Published: 2016-03-29T14:10:14.000Z

## Abstract

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.

## Recorded benchmark results

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08776>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08776.pdf>)