It's a Bernoulli noise.
define  f (x) = 1/ (1 + e(-r(x)) )
and the objective function at x is 1 with probability f(x).
So the expected value at x is f(x), but the values you get are noisy.

Best regards,
Olivier

2013/3/6 Chin-Chang Yang <[email protected]>

>
>
> 2013/3/6 Olivier Teytaud <[email protected]>
>
>>
>>> The CLOP is for noisy black-box parameter tuning. However, your test
>>> functions (LOG, FLAT, POWER, ANGLE, and STEP) are noise-free functions as
>>> shown in Table 1. It is very difficult to prove that CLOP can work very
>>> well on noisy functions.
>>>
>>
>> Waow :-) that would be a very strange noisy optimization paper if it was
>> about testing on noise-free functions.
>> The functions are certainly not noise-free; what you read (and which is
>> noise-free...) is their _expected_ values.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for replying me that what I read is their expected values.
>
> Since the functions are not noise-free, they should be defined in terms
> of some noise. I really need the definition of the noise for comparison
> between CLOP and other optimizers.
>
> I have downloaded the source codes, but I cannot find the codes related to
> the noise currently.
>
> Chin-Chang Yang, 2013/03/06
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