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<p>Dear colleagues, <br>
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<p>The Nevergrad and IOHprofiler teams are happy to announce that we
have
paired up for the <br>
<font size="+1"><b>Open Optimization Competition 2020.</b></font>
<br>
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<p>Two types of entries are invited:<br>
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<ol>
<li><b>performance track:</b> design and submit new algorithmic
approaches to any one of the competition tracks (including
one-shot optimization, low budget optimization, multi-objective
optimization, discrete optimization, structured optimization,
constrained optimization)</li>
<li><b>benchmarking practices track:</b> contribute to our
benchmarking routines by suggesting new features for nevergrad
or IOHprofiler (e.g, additional performance measures and
statistics, new benchmark problems, modular algorithm
frameworks, visualization of data, parallelization of the
experiments, reproducibility, ....)<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Submissions are entirely based on pull requests to our GitHub
repositories:</p>
<ul>
<li>nevergrad: <a
href="https://github.com/facebookresearch/nevergrad">https://github.com/facebookresearch/nevergrad</a>
</li>
<li>IOHprofiler: <a href="https://github.com/IOHprofiler/">https://github.com/IOHprofiler/</a>
[please use the competition branch for submissions]<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>More information</b> available at <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/facebookresearch/nevergrad/blob/master/docs/opencompetition2020.md">https://github.com/facebookresearch/nevergrad/blob/master/docs/opencompetition2020.md</a><br>
Please do not hesitate to reach out to the organizers in case of
questions! <br>
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<p><b>Prizes: </b>Up to 12 000 euros of awards, to be used for
traveling to PPSN or GECCO 2020 or 2021, distributed over several
winners.
In addition, a limited number of registration fee waivers are
available for PPSN 2020.</p>
<p><b>Award Jury: </b><br>
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<ul>
<li>Enrique Alba (University of Málaga, Spain)</li>
<li>Maxim Buzdalov (ITMO University, Russia)</li>
<li>Josu Cerebio (University of the Basque country, Spain)</li>
<li>Benjamin Doerr (Ecole Polytechnique, France)</li>
<li>Tobias Glasmachers (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)</li>
<li>Manuel Lopez-Ibanez (University of Manchester, UK)</li>
<li>Katherine Mary Malan (University of South Africa)</li>
<li>Luís Paquete (University of Coimbra, Portugal)</li>
<li>Jan van Rijn (Leiden University, The Netherlands)</li>
<li>Marc Schoenauer (Inria Saclay, France)</li>
<li>Thomas Weise (Hefei University, China)</li>
</ul>
<p>We look forward to receiving your contributions!<br>
The organizers of the Open Optimization Competition<br>
- Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, The Netherlands)<br>
- Carola Doerr (CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)<br>
- Antoine Moreau (Université Clermont Auvergne)<br>
- Jeremy Rapin (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, Paris,
France)<br>
- Baptiste Roziere (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research,
Paris, France)<br>
- Ofer M. Shir (Tel-Hai College and Migal Institute, Israel)<br>
- Olivier Teytaud (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research,
Paris, France)</p>
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