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We propose performance profiles-distribution functions for a performance metric-as a tool for benchmarking and comparing optimization software. We show that performance profiles combine the best features of other tools for performance…

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We propose a set of benchmarks for evaluating the practicality of software obfuscators which rely on provably-secure methods for functional obfuscation.

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Because the choice and tuning of the optimizer affects the speed, and ultimately the performance of deep learning, there is significant past and recent research in this area. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, there is no generally agreed-upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Frank Schneider , Lukas Balles , Philipp Hennig

In the field of scientific computing, one often finds several alternative software packages (with open or closed source code) for solving a specific problem. These packages sometimes even use alternative methodological approaches, e.g.,…

We present Bencher, a modular benchmarking framework for black-box optimization that fundamentally decouples benchmark execution from optimization logic. Unlike prior suites that focus on combining many benchmarks in a single project,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Leonard Papenmeier , Luigi Nardi

In the context of optimization, visualization techniques can be useful for understanding the behaviour of optimization algorithms and can even provide a means to facilitate human interaction with an optimizer. Towards this goal, an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Kyle Robert Harrison , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Kalyanmoy Deb

We introduce an open source python framework named PHS - Parallel Hyperparameter Search to enable hyperparameter optimization on numerous compute instances of any arbitrary python function. This is achieved with minimal modifications inside…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Peter Michael Habelitz , Janis Keuper

Benchmarking optimization algorithms is fundamental for the advancement of computational intelligence. However, widely adopted artificial test suites exhibit limited correspondence with the diversity and complexity of real-world engineering…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Stefan Ivić , Siniša Družeta , Luka Grbčić

Benchmarking involves designing, running and disseminating rigorous performance assessments of methods, most often for data analysis and software tools, but the process can also be applied to experimental systems. Ideally, a benchmarking…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-12 Izaskun Mallona , Almut Luetge , Ben Carrillo , Daniel Incicau , Reto Gerber , Aidan Meara , Anthony Sonrel , Charlotte Soneson , Mark D. Robinson

The relationship between RNA structure and function has recently attracted interest within the deep learning community, a trend expected to intensify as nucleic acid structure models advance. Despite this momentum, the lack of standardized,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-23 Luis Wyss , Vincent Mallet , Wissam Karroucha , Karsten Borgwardt , Carlos Oliver

We present an easy-to-use, Python-based framework that allows a researcher to automate their computational simulations. In particular the framework facilitates assembling several long-running computations and producing various plots from…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Prabhu Ramachandran

For scientific software, especially those used for large-scale simulations, achieving good performance and efficiently using the available hardware resources is essential. It is important to regularly perform benchmarks to ensure the…

We introduce COCO, an open source platform for Comparing Continuous Optimizers in a black-box setting. COCO aims at automatizing the tedious and repetitive task of benchmarking numerical optimization algorithms to the greatest possible…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Nikolaus Hansen , Anne Auger , Raymond Ros , Olaf Mersmann , Tea Tušar , Dimo Brockhoff

Sampling-based planning algorithms are the most common probabilistically complete algorithms and are widely used on many robot platforms. Within this class of algorithms, many variants have been proposed over the last 20 years, yet there is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Mark Moll , Ioan A. Sucan , Lydia E. Kavraki

Benchmarking the performance of quantum optimization algorithms is crucial for identifying utility for industry-relevant use cases. Benchmarking processes vary between optimization applications and depend on user-specified goals. The…

Benchmark quality is critical for meaningful evaluation and sustained progress in time series forecasting, particularly with the rise of pretrained models. Existing benchmarks often have limited domain coverage or overlook real-world…

Theano is a Python library that allows to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. Since its introduction, it has been one of the most used CPU and GPU mathematical compilers -…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-05-10 The Theano Development Team , Rami Al-Rfou , Guillaume Alain , Amjad Almahairi , Christof Angermueller , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Nicolas Ballas , Frédéric Bastien , Justin Bayer , Anatoly Belikov , Alexander Belopolsky , Yoshua Bengio , Arnaud Bergeron , James Bergstra , Valentin Bisson , Josh Bleecher Snyder , Nicolas Bouchard , Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski , Xavier Bouthillier , Alexandre de Brébisson , Olivier Breuleux , Pierre-Luc Carrier , Kyunghyun Cho , Jan Chorowski , Paul Christiano , Tim Cooijmans , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Myriam Côté , Aaron Courville , Yann N. Dauphin , Olivier Delalleau , Julien Demouth , Guillaume Desjardins , Sander Dieleman , Laurent Dinh , Mélanie Ducoffe , Vincent Dumoulin , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Dumitru Erhan , Ziye Fan , Orhan Firat , Mathieu Germain , Xavier Glorot , Ian Goodfellow , Matt Graham , Caglar Gulcehre , Philippe Hamel , Iban Harlouchet , Jean-Philippe Heng , Balázs Hidasi , Sina Honari , Arjun Jain , Sébastien Jean , Kai Jia , Mikhail Korobov , Vivek Kulkarni , Alex Lamb , Pascal Lamblin , Eric Larsen , César Laurent , Sean Lee , Simon Lefrancois , Simon Lemieux , Nicholas Léonard , Zhouhan Lin , Jesse A. Livezey , Cory Lorenz , Jeremiah Lowin , Qianli Ma , Pierre-Antoine Manzagol , Olivier Mastropietro , Robert T. McGibbon , Roland Memisevic , Bart van Merriënboer , Vincent Michalski , Mehdi Mirza , Alberto Orlandi , Christopher Pal , Razvan Pascanu , Mohammad Pezeshki , Colin Raffel , Daniel Renshaw , Matthew Rocklin , Adriana Romero , Markus Roth , Peter Sadowski , John Salvatier , François Savard , Jan Schlüter , John Schulman , Gabriel Schwartz , Iulian Vlad Serban , Dmitriy Serdyuk , Samira Shabanian , Étienne Simon , Sigurd Spieckermann , S. Ramana Subramanyam , Jakub Sygnowski , Jérémie Tanguay , Gijs van Tulder , Joseph Turian , Sebastian Urban , Pascal Vincent , Francesco Visin , Harm de Vries , David Warde-Farley , Dustin J. Webb , Matthew Willson , Kelvin Xu , Lijun Xue , Li Yao , Saizheng Zhang , Ying Zhang

Benchmarking plays an important role in the development of novel search algorithms as well as for the assessment and comparison of contemporary algorithmic ideas. This paper presents common principles that need to be taken into account when…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Michael Hellwig , Hans-Georg Beyer

A variety of optimization algorithms have been developed to solve engineering design problems in which the solution space is too large to manually determine the optimal solution. The Modular Optimization Framework (MOF) was developed to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Brian Andersen , Gregory Delipei , David Kropaczek , Jason Hou

Solving many-objective problems (MaOPs) is still a significant challenge in the multi-objective optimization (MOO) field. One way to measure algorithm performance is through the use of benchmark functions (also called test functions or test…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Ivan Reinaldo Meneghini , Marcos Antonio Alves , António Gaspar-Cunha , Frederico Gadelha Guimarães