| 2025 | GECCO | Rank-based Linear-Quadratic Surrogate Assisted CMA-ES. | Mohamed Gharafi, Nikolaus Hansen, Rodolphe Le Riche, Dimo Brockhoff |
| 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 | CMA-ES and Advanced Adaptation Mechanisms. | Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2023 | GECCO | An Introduction to Scientific Experimentation and Benchmarking. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2023 | GECCO | Multiobjective Optimization with a Quadratic Surrogate-assisted CMA-ES. | Mohamed Gharafi, Nikolaus Hansen, Dimo Brockhoff, Rodolphe Le Riche |
| 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 |
| 2023 | IJCCI | Assessment and Evaluation of Empirical and Scientific Data. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2022 | GECCO | CMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms. | Youhei Akimoto, 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 | CMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms. | Youhei Akimoto, 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 |
| 2021 | GECCO | Augmented lagrangian, penalty techniques and surrogate modeling for constrained optimization with CMA-ES. | Paul Dufoss, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2021 | GECCO | Hypervolume in biobjective optimization cannot converge faster than Ω(1/ | Eugnie Marescaux, 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 | CMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms. | Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2019 | GECCO | The impact of sample volume in random search on the bbob test suite. | Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2019 | GECCO | A global surrogate assisted CMA-ES. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2019 | GECCO | A practical guide to experimentation (and benchmarking). | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2019 | GECCO | Uncrowded hypervolume improvement: COMO-CMA-ES and the sofomore framework. | Cheikh Tour, Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff |
| 2019 | GECCO | Mixed-integer benchmark problems for single- and bi-objective optimization. | Tea Tusar, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2018 | GECCO | CMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms. | Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2018 | GECCO | A practical guide to experimentation. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 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 | CMA-ES and advanced adaptation mechanisms. | Youhei Akimoto, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2017 | GECCO | Introduction to randomized continuous optimization. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2017 | GECCO | A practical guide to benchmarking and experimentation. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2017 | GECCO | Benchmarking CMAES-APOP on the BBOB noiseless testbed. | Duc Manh Nguyen, 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 | Projection-Based Restricted Covariance Matrix Adaptation for High Dimension. | Youhei Akimoto, 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 | GECCO | Unbounded Population MO-CMA-ES for the Bi-Objective BBOB Test Suite. | Oswin Krause, Tobias Glasmachers, Nikolaus Hansen, Christian Igel |
| 2016 | PPSN | Online Model Selection for Restricted Covariance Matrix Adaptation. | Youhei Akimoto, 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 | Continuous Optimization and CMA-ES. | Youhei Akimoto, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2015 | GECCO | Benchmarking Numerical Multiobjective Optimizers Revisited. | Dimo Brockhoff, Thanh-Do Tran, 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 | PPSN | How to Assess Step-Size Adaptation Mechanisms in Randomised Search. | Nikolaus Hansen, Asma Atamna, Anne Auger |
| 2014 | PPSN | Maximum Likelihood-Based Online Adaptation of Hyper-Parameters in CMA-ES. | Ilya Loshchilov, Marc Schoenauer, Michle Sebag, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 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 | A (1+1)-CMA-ES for constrained optimisation. | Dirk V. Arnold, 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 | CMA-ES: evolution strategies and covariance matrix adaptation. | Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger |
| 2010 | GECCO | Active covariance matrix adaptation for the (1+1)-CMA-ES. | Dirk V. Arnold, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 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 | GECCO | Black-box optimization benchmarking of NEWUOA compared to BIPOP-CMA-ES: on the BBOB noiseless testbed. | Nikolaus Hansen, Raymond Ros |
| 2010 | GECCO | Benchmarking a weighted negative covariance matrix update on the BBOB-2010 noiseless testbed. | Nikolaus Hansen, Raymond Ros |
| 2010 | GECCO | Benchmarking a weighted negative covariance matrix update on the BBOB-2010 noisy testbed. | Nikolaus Hansen, Raymond Ros |
| 2010 | GECCO | Improved step size adaptation for the MO-CMA-ES. | Thomas Vo, Nikolaus Hansen, Christian Igel |
| 2010 | PPSN | Mirrored Sampling and Sequential Selection for Evolution Strategies. | Dimo Brockhoff, Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen, Dirk V. Arnold, Tim Hohm |
| 2009 | EMO | Recombination for Learning Strategy Parameters in the MO-CMA-ES. | Thomas Vo, Nikolaus Hansen, Christian Igel |
| 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 a BI-population CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 function testbed. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking a BI-population CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 noisy testbed. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking the nelder-mead downhill simplex algorithm with many local restarts. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2008 | GECCO | Evolution strategies and related estimation of distribution algorithms. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2008 | PPSN | Adaptive Encoding: How to Render Search Coordinate System Invariant. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2008 | PPSN | A Simple Modification in CMA-ES Achieving Linear Time and Space Complexity. | Raymond Ros, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2007 | EMO | Steady-State Selection and Efficient Covariance Matrix Update in the Multi-objective CMA-ES. | Christian Igel, Thorsten Suttorp, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2006 | GECCO | Reconsidering the progress rate theory for evolution strategies in finite dimensions. | Anne Auger, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2006 | GECCO | A computational efficient covariance matrix update and a (1+1)-CMA for evolution strategies. | Christian Igel, Thorsten Suttorp, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2006 | PPSN | When Do Heavy-Tail Distributions Help? | Nikolaus Hansen, Fabian Gemperle, Anne Auger, Petros Koumoutsakos |
| 2006 | PPSN | Local Meta-models for Optimization Using Evolution Strategies. | Stefan Kern, Nikolaus Hansen, 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 |
| 2004 | PPSN | Evaluating the CMA Evolution Strategy on Multimodal Test Functions. | Nikolaus Hansen, Stefan Kern |
| 2004 | PPSN | A Mixed Bayesian Optimization Algorithm with Variance Adaptation. | Jiri Ocenasek, Stefan Kern, Nikolaus Hansen, Petros Koumoutsakos |
| 2002 | PPSN | Increasing the Serial and the Parallel Performance of the CMA-Evolution Strategy with Large Populations. | Sibylle D. Mller, Nikolaus Hansen, Petros Koumoutsakos |
| 2000 | PPSN | Invariance, Self-Adaptation and Correlated Mutations and Evolution Strategies. | Nikolaus Hansen |
| 1996 | ICEC | Adapting Arbitrary Normal Mutation Distributions in Evolution Strategies: The Covariance Matrix Adaptation. | Nikolaus Hansen, Andreas Ostermeier |
| 1994 | PPSN | Step-Size Adaption Based on Non-Local Use of Selection Information. | Andreas Ostermeier, Andreas Gawelczyk, Nikolaus Hansen |