IOHanalyzer

The performance analyzer for Iterative Optimization Heuristics (IOHs).

• Documentation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03953
• Wiki page: https://iohprofiler.github.io/IOHanalyzer/
• Bug reports: https://github.com/IOHprofiler/IOHAnalyzer/issues
• Online service: https://iohanalyzer.liacs.nl
• General Contact: mailto:iohprofiler@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
• Mailing List: https://lists.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/iohprofiler

It provides:

• a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) to analyze and visualize the empirical performance of IOHs,
• interactive plotting,
• statistical evaluation,
• report generation, and
• a command-line interface (CLI) for the R console allowing for fine-grained controls.

It is built mainly on:

• R packages Shiny, Plotly and Rcpp.

It is available through:

• a free online service that you can use right away, or
• the local installation of the package.

Online Service

A free server https://iohanalyzer.liacs.nl running the stable version of IOHanalyzer is hosted in Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. You're welcome to check it out!

Installation

Software dependency

• [mandatory] R As IOHanalyzer is written as a R package, the R environment has to be installed first. The binary file and installation manual for R can be found here https://cran.r-project.org/.
• [optional] either kaleido (recommended) or orca (will be depricated) is required to download plotly figures. Please see Kaleido or Orca for their respective installation instructions.

Stable version

Please start up an R console and install the stable version as:

R> install.packages('IOHanalyzer')

which is maintained on CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network).

Lastest version

The lastest development is always hosted on Github. In case you'd like to try out this version, the R package devtool is needed:

R> install.packages('devtools')
R> devtools::install_github('IOHprofiler/IOHanalyzer')

Development version

If you want to run the version on which you develop:

R> devtools::install_git("/path/to/your/IOHanalyzer/git/repo")

Runinng the Web Interface locally

The IOHanalyzer package can be loaded using the following commands:

R> library('IOHanalyzer')
R> runServer()

It should open a browser on the localhost server, using a random port number. Of course, you could also specify the port number directly:

R> runServer(port = 1234)

Have fun! For the complete reference on usage, please check out our Wiki page.

Host it online

We provide a docker file for deploying IOHanalyzer on the server. Please see https://github.com/IOHprofiler/IOHanalyzer-docker for details.

Supported Data Format

Specific formats are required to load your benchmark data to IOHanalyzer. If your data sets are generated in the format of

• COCO/BBOB data format as regulated in https://inria.hal.science/inria-00362649,
• Nevergrad data format (explained in https://github.com/facebookresearch/nevergrad), or
• IOHprofiler data format, which is motivated and modified from COCO data format,

then you just need to compress the data folder obtained from the experiment into a zip file and uploaded it. However, you are encouraged to convert your own benchmark data to the format regulated here!. The supported data format is specified in this page. Please follow the instruction there to convert your data sets.

Our Team

• Hao Wang, Sorbonne Université, LIP6, France.
• Diederick Vermetten, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands.
• Furong Ye, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands.
• Ofer M. Shir, Tel-Hai College, Israel.
• Carola Doerr, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6, France.
• Thomas Bäck, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands.

When using IOHprofiler and parts thereof, please kindly cite this work as

Hao Wang, Diederick Vermettern, Furong Ye, Carola Doerr and Thomas Bäck: IOHanalyzer: Performance Analysis for Iterative Optimization Heuristic, arXiv e-prints:2007.03953, 2020.

@ARTICLE{IOHprofiler,
  author = {Hao Wang and Diederick Vermettern and Furong Ye and Carola Doerr and Thomas B{\"a}ck},
  title = {{IOHanalyzer: Performance Analysis for Iterative Optimization Heuristic}},
  journal = {arXiv e-prints:2007.03953},
  archivePrefix = "arXiv",
  eprint = {2007.03953},
  year = 2020,
  month = July,
  keywords = {Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03953}
}

License

This application is governed by the BSD 3-Clause license.

BSD 3-Clause License

Copyright (c) 2018, All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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