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This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

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The original C++ implementation and Python/Cython wrapper are copyright Daniel Molina (dmolina/cec2013lsgo). The pure-Python LSGO2013 port, tests, and documentation in this fork are copyright Rasa Khosrowshahli (2026) and are distributed under GPLv3 when you redistribute the package.

Citation

If you use these benchmarks in academic work, cite the CEC-2013 technical report:

X. Li, K. Tang, M. N. Omidvar, Z. Yang, and K. Qin, Benchmark Functions for the CEC'2013 Special Session and Competition on Large Scale Global Optimization, Technical Report, RMIT University, 2013.
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Original wrapper:

D. Molina (2018). cec2013lsgo. https://github.com/dmolina/cec2013lsgo