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Experimental Comparisons of Derivative Free Optimization Algorithms

Numerical Analysis 2010-06-01 v1

Abstract

In this paper, the performances of the quasi-Newton BFGS algorithm, the NEWUOA derivative free optimizer, the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES), the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimizers (PSO) are compared experimentally on benchmark functions reflecting important challenges encountered in real-world optimization problems. Dependence of the performances in the conditioning of the problem and rotational invariance of the algorithms are in particular investigated.

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@article{arxiv.1005.5631,
  title  = {Experimental Comparisons of Derivative Free Optimization Algorithms},
  author = {Anne Auger and Nikolaus Hansen and Jorge M. Perez Zerpa and Raymond Ros and Marc Schoenauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.5631},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms, Dortmund : Germany (2009)

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