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Machine learning on graphs has made substantial progress across domains such as molecular property prediction and chip design. Yet benchmarking practices remain fragmented, often relying on narrow, task-specific datasets and inconsistent…

Feature-based algorithm selection aims to automatically find the best one from a portfolio of optimization algorithms on an unseen problem based on its landscape features. Feature-based algorithm selection has recently received attention in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ryoji Tanabe

Large Language Models have advanced automated software development, however, it remains a challenge to correctly infer dependencies, namely, identifying the internal components and external packages required for a repository to successfully…

We present Code-QA-Bench, a fully automated framework for synthesizing repository-level code understanding benchmarks that separates genuine code comprehension from documentation recall and pretraining memorization. The framework makes two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jun Zhang , JianYing Qu , Hanwen Du , Zhongkai Sun , Yehua Yang , Qiao Zhao

Selecting the right compiler optimisations has a severe impact on programs' performance. Still, the available optimisations keep increasing, and their effect depends on the specific program, making the task human intractable. Researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefano Cereda , Gianluca Palermo , Paolo Cremonesi , Stefano Doni

We present nanoBench, a tool for evaluating small microbenchmarks using hardware performance counters on Intel and AMD x86 systems. Most existing tools and libraries are intended to either benchmark entire programs, or program segments in…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Andreas Abel , Jan Reineke

Performance regressions in large-scale software systems can lead to substantial resource inefficiencies, making their early detection critical. Frequent benchmarking is essential for identifying these regressions and maintaining…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Nils Japke , Sebastian Koch , Helmut Lukasczyk , David Bermbach

Chip placement is a vital stage in modern chip design as it has a substantial impact on the subsequent processes and the overall quality of the final chip. The use of black-box optimization (BBO) for chip placement has a history of several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ke Xue , Ruo-Tong Chen , Rong-Xi Tan , Xi Lin , Yunqi Shi , Siyuan Xu , Mingxuan Yuan , Chao Qian

Recently, Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning (MetaBBO-RL) has showcased the power of leveraging RL at the meta-level to mitigate manual fine-tuning of low-level black-box optimizers. However, this field is hindered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Jiacheng Chen , Zhenrui Li , Guojun Peng , Yue-Jiao Gong , Yining Ma , Zhiguang Cao

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Nikolaus Hansen , Tea Tusar , Olaf Mersmann , Anne Auger , Dimo Brockhoff

Benchmarking heuristic algorithms is vital to understand under which conditions and on what kind of problems certain algorithms perform well. In most current research into heuristic optimization algorithms, only a very limited number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Niki van Stein , Diederick Vermetten , Anna V. Kononova , Thomas Bäck

Recent advancements in data stream processing frameworks have improved real-time data handling, however, scalability remains a significant challenge affecting throughput and latency. While studies have explored this issue on local machines…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Apurv Deepak Kulkarni , Siavash Ghiasvand

Complex reasoning tasks often rely on the ability to consistently and accurately apply simple rules across incremental steps, a foundational capability which we term "level-0" reasoning. To systematically evaluate this capability, we…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Simeng Sun , Cheng-Ping Hsieh , Faisal Ladhak , Erik Arakelyan , Santiago Akle Serano , Boris Ginsburg

Existing database benchmarks primarily focus on performance under ideal running environments. However, in real-world scenarios, databases probably face numerous adverse events. Quantifying the ability to cope with these events from a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Puyun Hu , Wei Pan , Xun Jian , Zeqi Ma , Tianjie Li , Yang Shen , Chengzhi Han , Yudong Zhao , Zhanhuai Li

Accurate parsing of citations is necessary for machine-readable scholarly infrastructure. But, despite sustained interest in this problem, existing evaluation techniques are often not generalizable, based on synthetic data, or not publicly…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Parth Sarin , Juan Pablo Alperin , Adam Buttrick , Dione Mentis

Fair algorithm evaluation is conditioned on the existence of high-quality benchmark datasets that are non-redundant and are representative of typical optimization scenarios. In this paper, we evaluate three heuristics for selecting diverse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Gjorgjina Cenikj , Ryan Dieter Lang , Andries Petrus Engelbrecht , Carola Doerr , Peter Korošec , Tome Eftimov

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to support scientific research, and recent benchmarks report progress in code repair and autonomous experimentation. However, these evaluations typically assume a pre-configured execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yubang Wang , Chenxi Zhang , Bowen Chen , Zezheng Huai , Zihao Dai , Xinchi Chen , Yuxin Wang , Yining Zheng , Jingjing Gong , Xipeng Qiu

Recommender systems research lacks standardized benchmarks for reproducibility and algorithm comparisons. We introduce RBoard, a novel framework addressing these challenges by providing a comprehensive platform for benchmarking diverse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xinyang Shao , Edoardo D'Amico , Gabor Fodor , Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Recent advances in probabilistic modelling have led to a large number of simulation-based inference algorithms which do not require numerical evaluation of likelihoods. However, a public benchmark with appropriate performance metrics for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-12 Jan-Matthis Lueckmann , Jan Boelts , David S. Greenberg , Pedro J. Gonçalves , Jakob H. Macke

A critical yet frequently overlooked challenge in the field of deepfake detection is the lack of a standardized, unified, comprehensive benchmark. This issue leads to unfair performance comparisons and potentially misleading results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhiyuan Yan , Yong Zhang , Xinhang Yuan , Siwei Lyu , Baoyuan Wu