BBOB-benchmarking two variants of the line-search algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Petr Pošík

  • Affiliations:
  • Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Prague, Czech Rep

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Late Breaking Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The restarted line search, or coordinate-wise search, algorithm is tested on the BBOB 2009 testbed. Two different univariate search algorithms (fminbnd from MATLAB and STEP) were tried and compared. The results are as expected: line search method can optimize only separable functions, for other functions it fails. The STEP method is slightly slower, however, is more robust in the multimodal case. The line search algorithms also identified 2 functions of the test suite (in addition to separable problems) which might be easy for algorithms exploiting separability.