Benchmarking RM-MEDA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite

International audienceIn this paper, we benchmark the Regularity Model-Based Multiobjective Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (RM-MEDA) of Zhang et al. on the bi-objective bbob-biobj test suite of the Comparing Continuous Optimizers (COCO) platform. It turns out that, starting from about 200 times dimension many function evaluations, RM-MEDA shows a linear increase in the solved hypervolume-based target values with time until a stagnation of the performance occurs rather quickly on all problems. The final percentage of solved hy-pervolume targets seems to decrease with the problem dimension