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Re:Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimiza... by twic on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:27AM (#26294437)
For linear programming solvers, there is an annual competition to see which is best:

https://www.minizinc.org/challenge.html

Is there anything like this for gradient-free optimisers?

Re:Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimiza... by simonblanke on Sunday February 28, 2021 @03:57PM (#26296986)
I thought about a table in the readme that shows some kind of metric for each optimizer that describes its performance. I will look into that.