Black-box optimization benchmarking the IPOP-CMA-ES on the noiseless testbed: comparison to the BIPOP-CMA-ES

We benchmark the Covariance Matrix Adaptation-Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm with an Increasing POPulation size (IPOP) restart policy on the BBOB noiseless testbed. The IPOP-CMA-ES is compared to the BIPOP-CMA-ES and is shown to perform at best two times faster on multi-modal functions f 15 to f 19 whereas it does not solve weakly structured functions f 22, f 23 and f 24.