COCO: A Platform for Comparing Continuous Optimizers in a Black-Box Setting

Understand

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 extent.
• The platform and the underlying methodology allow to benchmark in the same framework deterministic and stochastic solvers for both single and multiobjective optimization.
• We present the rationales behind the (decade-long) development of the platform as a general proposition for guidelines towards better benchmarking.