| 2026 | GECCO | Demystifying CMA-ES. | Anne Auger |
| 2026 | PPSN | Theoretical Analysis of the (1+1)-EA-ES with Reduced Success Rule for Mixed Discrete-Continuous Optimization. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Timo Ktzing, Jurek Sander |
| 2025 | GECCO | On the Pareto Set and Front of Multiobjective Spherical Functions with Convex Constraints. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Jordan N. Cork, Tea Tusar |
| 2025 | GECCO | On the Robustness of BFGS to Positive and Negative Noise Outliers on the BBOB Test Suite. | Alexandre Chotard, Anne Auger |
| 2025 | GECCO | On the Robustness of Nelder-Mead to Positive and Negative Noise Outliers with Heavy-Tails on the BBOB Test Suite. | Alexandre Chotard, Anne Auger |
| 2025 | GECCO | Classification-Based Linear Surrogate Modeling of Constraints for AL-CMA-ES. | Oskar Girardin, Nikolaus Hansen, Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger |
| 2024 | PPSN | LB+IC-CMA-ES: Two Simple Modifications of CMA-ES to Handle Mixed-Integer Problems. | Tristan Marty, Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Yann Semet, Sbastien Hron |
| 2023 | GECCO | An Introduction to Scientific Experimentation and Benchmarking. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2023 | GECCO | Benchmarking CMA-ES with Basic Integer Handling on a Mixed-Integer Test Problem Suite. | Tristan Marty, Yann Semet, Anne Auger, Sbastien Hron, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2022 | GECCO | A (biased) introduction to benchmarking. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2022 | GECCO | Learning rate adaptation by line search in evolution strategies with recombination. | Armand Gissler, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2021 | GECCO | Benchmarking: state-of-the-art and beyond. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2021 | GECCO | DMS and MultiGLODS: black-box optimization benchmarking of two direct search methods on the bbob-biobj test suite. | Dimo Brockhoff, Baptiste Plaquevent-Jourdain, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2020 | PPSN | Sparse Inverse Covariance Learning for CMA-ES with Graphical Lasso. | Konstantinos Varelas, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2019 | EMO | On Bi-objective Convex-Quadratic Problems. | Cheikh Toure, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2019 | GECCO | Uncrowded hypervolume improvement: COMO-CMA-ES and the sofomore framework. | Cheikh Tour, Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff |
| 2018 | GECCO | Drift theory in continuous search spaces: expected hitting time of the (1 + 1)-ES with 1/5 success rule. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Tobias Glasmachers |
| 2018 | GECCO | Stopping criteria, initialization, and implementations of BFGS and their effect on the BBOB test suite. | Aurore Blelly, Matheus Felipe-Gomes, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff |
| 2018 | PPSN | A Comparative Study of Large-Scale Variants of CMA-ES. | Konstantinos Varelas, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Ouassim Ait ElHara, Yann Semet, Rami Kassab, Frdric Barbaresco |
| 2017 | EMO | Quantitative Performance Assessment of Multiobjective Optimizers: The Average Runtime Attainment Function. | Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Tea Tusar |
| 2017 | FOGA | Quality Gain Analysis of the Weighted Recombination Evolution Strategy on General Convex Quadratic Functions. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2017 | FOGA | Linearly Convergent Evolution Strategies via Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling. | Asma Atamna, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2017 | GECCO | Introduction to randomized continuous optimization. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2016 | GECCO | Introduction to Randomized Continuous Optimization. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2016 | GECCO | CMA-ES and Advanced Adaptation Mechanisms. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2016 | GECCO | Analysis of Linear Convergence of a (1 + 1)-ES with Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling. | Asma Atamna, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2016 | GECCO | GECCO'16 Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking Workshop (BBOB-2016): Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner |
| 2016 | GECCO | Benchmarking the Pure Random Search on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner |
| 2016 | GECCO | The Impact of Variation Operators on the Performance of SMS-EMOA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner |
| 2016 | GECCO | Benchmarking MATLAB's gamultiobj (NSGA-II) on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner |
| 2016 | GECCO | Benchmarking RM-MEDA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner |
| 2016 | GECCO | The Impact of Search Volume on the Performance of RANDOMSEARCH on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner |
| 2016 | GECCO | Permuted Orthogonal Block-Diagonal Transformation Matrices for Large Scale Optimization Benchmarking. | Ouassim Ait ElHara, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2016 | PPSN | Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling for CMA-ES - Case of a Single Linear Constraint. | Asma Atamna, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2015 | GECCO | Theory of Evolution Strategies and Related Algorithms. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger |
| 2015 | GECCO | Continuous Optimization and CMA-ES. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2014 | CEC | Markov chain analysis of evolution strategies on a linear constraint optimization problem. | Alexandre Adrien Chotard, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2014 | GECCO | Comparison-based natural gradient optimization in high dimension. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2014 | GECCO | Evolution strategies and CMA-ES (covariance matrix adaptation). | Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger |
| 2014 | GECCO | Women@GECCO 2014. | Una-May O'Reilly, Anna Esparcia-Alczar, Anne Auger, Carola Doerr, Anik Ekrt, Gabriela Ochoa |
| 2014 | PPSN | How to Assess Step-Size Adaptation Mechanisms in Randomised Search. | Nikolaus Hansen, Asma Atamna, Anne Auger |
| 2013 | GECCO | Benchmarking the local metamodel CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB'2013 test bed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2013 | GECCO | Tutorial CMA-ES: evolution strategies and covariance matrix adaptation. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2013 | GECCO | A median success rule for non-elitist evolution strategies: study of feasibility. | Ouassim Ait ElHara, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2012 | GECCO | Tutorial CMA-ES: evolution strategies and covariance matrix adaptation. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2012 | GECCO | On the effect of mirroring in the IPOP active CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB testbed. | Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2012 | GECCO | On the impact of a small initial population size in the IPOP active CMA-ES with mirrored mutations on the noiseless BBOB testbed. | Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2012 | GECCO | On the impact of active covariance matrix adaptation in the CMA-ES with mirrored mutations and small initial population size on the noiseless BBOB testbed. | Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2012 | GECCO | Comparing mirrored mutations and active covariance matrix adaptation in the IPOP-CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB testbed. | Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2012 | PPSN | Convergence of the Continuous Time Trajectories of Isotropic Evolution Strategies on Monotonic $\mathcal C^2$ -composite Functions. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2012 | PPSN | Cumulative Step-Size Adaptation on Linear Functions. | Alexandre Adrien Chotard, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2011 | FOGA | Analyzing the impact of mirrored sampling and sequential selection in elitist evolution strategies. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2011 | GECCO | Mirrored sampling in evolution strategies with weighted recombination. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2011 | GECCO | Local-meta-model CMA-ES for partially separable functions. | Zyed Bouzarkouna, Anne Auger, Didier Yu Ding |
| 2011 | GECCO | CMA-ES: evolution strategies and covariance matrix adaptation. | Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger |
| 2010 | GECCO | Comparing the (1+1)-CMA-ES with a mirrored (1+2)-CMA-ES with sequential selection on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Mirrored variants of the (1, 2)-CMA-ES compared on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Mirrored variants of the (1, 4)-CMA-ES compared on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Mirrored variants of the (1, 2)-CMA-ES compared on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Mirrored variants of the (1, 4)-CMA-ES compared on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Investigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 2)-CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Investigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 4)-CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Investigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 2)-CMA-ES on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Investigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 4)-CMA-ES on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Benchmarking the (1, 4)-CMA-ES with mirrored sampling and sequential selection on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Benchmarking the (1, 4)-CMA-ES with mirrored sampling and sequential selection on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed. | Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Comparing results of 31 algorithms from the black-box optimization benchmarking BBOB-2009. | Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Raymond Ros, Steffen Finck, Petr Posk |
| 2010 | PPSN | Theoretically Investigating Optimal | Anne Auger, Johannes Bader, Dimo Brockhoff |
| 2010 | PPSN | Mirrored Sampling and Sequential Selection for Evolution Strategies. | Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Dirk V. Arnold, Tim Hohm |
| 2010 | PPSN | Log-Linear Convergence of the Scale-Invariant ( | Mohamed Jebalia, Anne Auger |
| 2009 | FOGA | Theory of the hypervolume indicator: optimal μ-distributions and the choice of the reference point. | Anne Auger, Johannes Bader, Dimo Brockhoff, Eckart Zitzler |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking the (1+1) evolution strategy with one-fifth success rule on the BBOB-2009 function testbed. | Anne Auger |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking the (1+1)-ES with one-fifth success rule on the BBOB-2009 noisy testbed. | Anne Auger |
| 2009 | GECCO | Articulating user preferences in many-objective problems by sampling the weighted hypervolume. | Anne Auger, Johannes Bader, Dimo Brockhoff, Eckart Zitzler |
| 2009 | GECCO | Investigating and exploiting the bias of the weighted hypervolume to articulate user preferences. | Anne Auger, Johannes Bader, Dimo Brockhoff, Eckart Zitzler |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking the (1+1)-CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 function testbed. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking the (1+1)-CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 noisy testbed. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking the pure random search on the BBOB-2009 testbed. | Anne Auger, Raymond Ros |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking the pure random search on the BBOB-2009 noisy testbed. | Anne Auger, Raymond Ros |
| 2008 | GECCO | Evolution strategies and related estimation of distribution algorithms. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2008 | PPSN | On Multiplicative Noise Models for Stochastic Search. | Mohamed Jebalia, Anne Auger |
| 2007 | CEC | Identification of the isotherm function in chromatography using CMA-ES. | Mohamed Jebalia, Anne Auger, Marc Schoenauer, Franois James, Marie Postel |
| 2007 | CEC | On the adaptation of noise level for stochastic optimization. | Olivier Teytaud, Anne Auger |
| 2007 | GECCO | Continuous lunches are free! | Anne Auger, Olivier Teytaud |
| 2006 | GECCO | Reconsidering the progress rate theory for evolution strategies in finite dimensions. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2006 | PPSN | When Do Heavy-Tail Distributions Help? | Nikolaus Hansen, Fabian Gemperle, Anne Auger, Petros Koumoutsakos |
| 2005 | CEC | A restart CMA evolution strategy with increasing population size. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2005 | CEC | Performance evaluation of an advanced local search evolutionary algorithm. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2005 | GECCO | Local and global order 3/2 convergence of a surrogate evolutionary algorithm. | Anne Auger, Marc Schoenauer, Olivier Teytaud |
| 2004 | PPSN | LS-CMA-ES: A Second-Order Algorithm for Covariance Matrix Adaptation. | Anne Auger, Marc Schoenauer, Nicolas Vanhaecke |
| 2003 | GECCO | Dimension-Independent Convergence Rate for Non-isotropic (1, lambda) - ES. | Anne Auger, Claude Le Bris, Marc Schoenauer |