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Nikolaus Hansen

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Papers indexed

109

Venues

7

Active years

1994–2025

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A

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Papers

109 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2025GECCORank-based Linear-Quadratic Surrogate Assisted CMA-ES.Mohamed Gharafi, Nikolaus Hansen, Rodolphe Le Riche, Dimo Brockhoff
2025GECCOClassification-Based Linear Surrogate Modeling of Constraints for AL-CMA-ES.Oskar Girardin, Nikolaus Hansen, Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger
2024PPSNLB+IC-CMA-ES: Two Simple Modifications of CMA-ES to Handle Mixed-Integer Problems.Tristan Marty, Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Yann Semet, Sbastien Hron
2023GECCOCMA-ES and Advanced Adaptation Mechanisms.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2023GECCOAn Introduction to Scientific Experimentation and Benchmarking.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2023GECCOMultiobjective Optimization with a Quadratic Surrogate-assisted CMA-ES.Mohamed Gharafi, Nikolaus Hansen, Dimo Brockhoff, Rodolphe Le Riche
2023GECCOBenchmarking CMA-ES with Basic Integer Handling on a Mixed-Integer Test Problem Suite.Tristan Marty, Yann Semet, Anne Auger, Sbastien Hron, Nikolaus Hansen
2023IJCCIAssessment and Evaluation of Empirical and Scientific Data.Nikolaus Hansen
2022GECCOCMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2022GECCOA (biased) introduction to benchmarking.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2022GECCOLearning rate adaptation by line search in evolution strategies with recombination.Armand Gissler, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2021GECCOCMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2021GECCOBenchmarking: state-of-the-art and beyond.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2021GECCODMS 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
2021GECCOAugmented lagrangian, penalty techniques and surrogate modeling for constrained optimization with CMA-ES.Paul Dufoss, Nikolaus Hansen
2021GECCOHypervolume in biobjective optimization cannot converge faster than Ω(1/Eugnie Marescaux, Nikolaus Hansen
2020PPSNSparse Inverse Covariance Learning for CMA-ES with Graphical Lasso.Konstantinos Varelas, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2019EMOOn Bi-objective Convex-Quadratic Problems.Cheikh Toure, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2019GECCOCMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2019GECCOThe impact of sample volume in random search on the bbob test suite.Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2019GECCOA global surrogate assisted CMA-ES.Nikolaus Hansen
2019GECCOA practical guide to experimentation (and benchmarking).Nikolaus Hansen
2019GECCOUncrowded hypervolume improvement: COMO-CMA-ES and the sofomore framework.Cheikh Tour, Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff
2019GECCOMixed-integer benchmark problems for single- and bi-objective optimization.Tea Tusar, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2018GECCOCMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2018GECCOA practical guide to experimentation.Nikolaus Hansen
2018PPSNA 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
2017EMOQuantitative Performance Assessment of Multiobjective Optimizers: The Average Runtime Attainment Function.Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Tea Tusar
2017FOGAQuality Gain Analysis of the Weighted Recombination Evolution Strategy on General Convex Quadratic Functions.Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2017FOGALinearly Convergent Evolution Strategies via Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling.Asma Atamna, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2017GECCOCMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2017GECCOIntroduction to randomized continuous optimization.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2017GECCOA practical guide to benchmarking and experimentation.Nikolaus Hansen
2017GECCOBenchmarking CMAES-APOP on the BBOB noiseless testbed.Duc Manh Nguyen, Nikolaus Hansen
2016GECCOIntroduction to Randomized Continuous Optimization.Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2016GECCOCMA-ES and Advanced Adaptation Mechanisms.Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2016GECCOProjection-Based Restricted Covariance Matrix Adaptation for High Dimension.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2016GECCOAnalysis of Linear Convergence of a (1 + 1)-ES with Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling.Asma Atamna, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2016GECCOGECCO'16 Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking Workshop (BBOB-2016): Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner
2016GECCOBenchmarking the Pure Random Search on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner
2016GECCOThe 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
2016GECCOBenchmarking 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
2016GECCOBenchmarking RM-MEDA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, Dejan Tusar, Tea Tusar, Tobias Wagner
2016GECCOThe 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
2016GECCOPermuted Orthogonal Block-Diagonal Transformation Matrices for Large Scale Optimization Benchmarking.Ouassim Ait ElHara, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2016GECCOUnbounded Population MO-CMA-ES for the Bi-Objective BBOB Test Suite.Oswin Krause, Tobias Glasmachers, Nikolaus Hansen, Christian Igel
2016PPSNOnline Model Selection for Restricted Covariance Matrix Adaptation.Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen
2016PPSNAugmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling for CMA-ES - Case of a Single Linear Constraint.Asma Atamna, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2015GECCOContinuous Optimization and CMA-ES.Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2015GECCOBenchmarking Numerical Multiobjective Optimizers Revisited.Dimo Brockhoff, Thanh-Do Tran, Nikolaus Hansen
2014CECMarkov chain analysis of evolution strategies on a linear constraint optimization problem.Alexandre Adrien Chotard, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2014GECCOComparison-based natural gradient optimization in high dimension.Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2014GECCOEvolution strategies and CMA-ES (covariance matrix adaptation).Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger
2014PPSNHow to Assess Step-Size Adaptation Mechanisms in Randomised Search.Nikolaus Hansen, Asma Atamna, Anne Auger
2014PPSNMaximum Likelihood-Based Online Adaptation of Hyper-Parameters in CMA-ES.Ilya Loshchilov, Marc Schoenauer, Michle Sebag, Nikolaus Hansen
2013GECCOBenchmarking the local metamodel CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB'2013 test bed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2013GECCOTutorial CMA-ES: evolution strategies and covariance matrix adaptation.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2013GECCOA median success rule for non-elitist evolution strategies: study of feasibility.Ouassim Ait ElHara, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2012GECCOA (1+1)-CMA-ES for constrained optimisation.Dirk V. Arnold, Nikolaus Hansen
2012GECCOTutorial CMA-ES: evolution strategies and covariance matrix adaptation.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2012GECCOOn the effect of mirroring in the IPOP active CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB testbed.Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2012GECCOOn 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
2012GECCOOn 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
2012GECCOComparing mirrored mutations and active covariance matrix adaptation in the IPOP-CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB testbed.Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2012PPSNConvergence of the Continuous Time Trajectories of Isotropic Evolution Strategies on Monotonic $\mathcal C^2$ -composite Functions.Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2012PPSNCumulative Step-Size Adaptation on Linear Functions.Alexandre Adrien Chotard, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2011FOGAAnalyzing the impact of mirrored sampling and sequential selection in elitist evolution strategies.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2011GECCOMirrored sampling in evolution strategies with weighted recombination.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2011GECCOCMA-ES: evolution strategies and covariance matrix adaptation.Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger
2010GECCOActive covariance matrix adaptation for the (1+1)-CMA-ES.Dirk V. Arnold, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOComparing 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
2010GECCOMirrored variants of the (1, 2)-CMA-ES compared on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOMirrored variants of the (1, 4)-CMA-ES compared on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOMirrored variants of the (1, 2)-CMA-ES compared on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOMirrored variants of the (1, 4)-CMA-ES compared on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOInvestigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 2)-CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOInvestigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 4)-CMA-ES on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOInvestigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 2)-CMA-ES on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOInvestigating the impact of sequential selection in the (1, 4)-CMA-ES on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOBenchmarking the (1, 4)-CMA-ES with mirrored sampling and sequential selection on the noiseless BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOBenchmarking the (1, 4)-CMA-ES with mirrored sampling and sequential selection on the noisy BBOB-2010 testbed.Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen
2010GECCOComparing results of 31 algorithms from the black-box optimization benchmarking BBOB-2009.Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Raymond Ros, Steffen Finck, Petr Posk
2010GECCOBlack-box optimization benchmarking of NEWUOA compared to BIPOP-CMA-ES: on the BBOB noiseless testbed.Nikolaus Hansen, Raymond Ros
2010GECCOBenchmarking a weighted negative covariance matrix update on the BBOB-2010 noiseless testbed.Nikolaus Hansen, Raymond Ros
2010GECCOBenchmarking a weighted negative covariance matrix update on the BBOB-2010 noisy testbed.Nikolaus Hansen, Raymond Ros
2010GECCOImproved step size adaptation for the MO-CMA-ES.Thomas Vo, Nikolaus Hansen, Christian Igel
2010PPSNMirrored Sampling and Sequential Selection for Evolution Strategies.Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Dirk V. Arnold, Tim Hohm
2009EMORecombination for Learning Strategy Parameters in the MO-CMA-ES.Thomas Vo, Nikolaus Hansen, Christian Igel
2009GECCOBenchmarking the (1+1)-CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 function testbed.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2009GECCOBenchmarking the (1+1)-CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 noisy testbed.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2009GECCOBenchmarking a BI-population CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 function testbed.Nikolaus Hansen
2009GECCOBenchmarking a BI-population CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 noisy testbed.Nikolaus Hansen
2009GECCOBenchmarking the nelder-mead downhill simplex algorithm with many local restarts.Nikolaus Hansen
2008GECCOEvolution strategies and related estimation of distribution algorithms.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2008PPSNAdaptive Encoding: How to Render Search Coordinate System Invariant.Nikolaus Hansen
2008PPSNA Simple Modification in CMA-ES Achieving Linear Time and Space Complexity.Raymond Ros, Nikolaus Hansen
2007EMOSteady-State Selection and Efficient Covariance Matrix Update in the Multi-objective CMA-ES.Christian Igel, Thorsten Suttorp, Nikolaus Hansen
2006GECCOReconsidering the progress rate theory for evolution strategies in finite dimensions.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2006GECCOA computational efficient covariance matrix update and a (1+1)-CMA for evolution strategies.Christian Igel, Thorsten Suttorp, Nikolaus Hansen
2006PPSNWhen Do Heavy-Tail Distributions Help?Nikolaus Hansen, Fabian Gemperle, Anne Auger, Petros Koumoutsakos
2006PPSNLocal Meta-models for Optimization Using Evolution Strategies.Stefan Kern, Nikolaus Hansen, Petros Koumoutsakos
2005CECA restart CMA evolution strategy with increasing population size.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2005CECPerformance evaluation of an advanced local search evolutionary algorithm.Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen
2004PPSNEvaluating the CMA Evolution Strategy on Multimodal Test Functions.Nikolaus Hansen, Stefan Kern
2004PPSNA Mixed Bayesian Optimization Algorithm with Variance Adaptation.Jiri Ocenasek, Stefan Kern, Nikolaus Hansen, Petros Koumoutsakos
2002PPSNIncreasing the Serial and the Parallel Performance of the CMA-Evolution Strategy with Large Populations.Sibylle D. Mller, Nikolaus Hansen, Petros Koumoutsakos
2000PPSNInvariance, Self-Adaptation and Correlated Mutations and Evolution Strategies.Nikolaus Hansen
1996ICECAdapting Arbitrary Normal Mutation Distributions in Evolution Strategies: The Covariance Matrix Adaptation.Nikolaus Hansen, Andreas Ostermeier
1994PPSNStep-Size Adaption Based on Non-Local Use of Selection Information.Andreas Ostermeier, Andreas Gawelczyk, Nikolaus Hansen