Cellular Direct Search

Codebase for benchmarking Cellular Direct Search (CDS) (under review) against standard optimizers on BBOB and additional test functions.

Quick Start

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

python3 main.py quick
python3 main.py benchmark --budget 5000 --seeds 20 --dims 10 20 30 --out results/benchmark_results.csv
python3 main.py hpo-quick

Output

• Benchmark rows are streamed to CSV during execution.
• A summary table is printed at the end (Best Config per Method).

Main Files

• main.py: CLI entrypoint
• benchmarking_module.py: benchmark pipeline and optimizer wrappers
• core.py: CDS implementations
• hpo_module.py: HPO benchmark on Fashion-MNIST