A ranking approach to global optimization

Authors: Cedric Malherbe, Emile Contal, Nicolas Vayatis

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Eventually, numerical evidence is given to show that the main algorithm of the paper which adapts empirically to the underlying ranking structure essentially outperforms existing state-of-the-art global optimization algorithms in typical benchmarks.
Researcher Affiliation Academia CMLA, ENS Cachan, CNRS, Universit e Paris-Saclay, 94235, Cachan, France
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 RANKOPT(n, f, X, R) and Algorithm 2 ADARANKOPT(n, f, X, p, {RN}N N )
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide concrete access to its own source code, only refers to a third-party library it uses (NLOpt).
Open Datasets No The algorithms were compared on three synthetic problems. No mention of specific datasets or their public availability beyond these synthetic functions.
Dataset Splits No The algorithms were compared on three synthetic problems and then describes maximizing/minimizing those functions directly. No explicit mention of train/validation/test splits.
Hardware Specification No No specific hardware details (e.g., GPU/CPU models, memory amounts) used for running experiments were provided in the paper.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions the 'NLOpt library (Johnson, 2014)' as a tool used for comparison, but it does not provide specific version numbers for its own software dependencies.
Experiment Setup Yes The tuning parameters were set to default and the parameter p was set to 1/4 for the convex ranking rules and to 1/10 for the polynomial ranking rules.