Request optimal point

[troyrock]

I have my optimization code running on the bbob suite, however I don't know how well I'm doing unless I know the function value of the optimal point. Is there a way to request the optimum function value so that I can see if my method was successful? Thanks.

[brockho]

The easiest is to use the postprocessing module, provided by COCO (https://github.com/numbbo/coco-postprocess). You will be able to compare with a lot of other algorithms (e.g. 300+ algos for the bbob suite) to see how your algorithm performs. If I remember correctly, we do not provide access to the optimal function value in C/C++.