Towards a theory-guided benchmarking suite for discrete black-box optimization heuristics
Carola Doerr, Furong Ye, Sander van Rijn, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck · Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference · 2018
Theoretical and empirical research on evolutionary computation methods complement each other by providing two fundamentally different approaches towards a better understanding of black-box optimization heuristics. In discrete optimization, both streams developed rather independently of each other, but we observe today an increasing interest in reconciling these two sub-branches. In continuous optimization, the COCO (Comparing Continuous Optimisers) benchmarking suite has established itself as an important platform that theoreticians and practitioners use to exchange research ideas and questions. No widely accepted equivalent exists in the research domain of discrete black-box optimization.