pyribs: A bare-bones python library for quality diversity optimization

B Tjanaka, MC Fontaine, DH Lee, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity of quality diversity (QD) optimization, a
branch of optimization that seeks to find a collection of diverse, high-performing solutions to …

Quality-diversity through ai feedback

H Bradley, A Dai, H Teufel, J Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In many text-generation problems, users may prefer not only a single response, but a
diverse range of high-quality outputs from which to choose. Quality-diversity (QD) search …

Deep surrogate assisted generation of environments

V Bhatt, B Tjanaka, M Fontaine… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent progress in reinforcement learning (RL) has started producing generally capable
agents that can solve a distribution of complex environments. These agents are typically …

Arbitrarily scalable environment generators via neural cellular automata

Y Zhang, M Fontaine, V Bhatt… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of generating arbitrarily large environments to improve the throughput
of multi-robot systems. Prior work proposes Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms as an effective …

Multi-robot coordination and layout design for automated warehousing

Y Zhang, MC Fontaine, V Bhatt, S Nikolaidis… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
With the rapid progress in Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), researchers have studied how
MAPF algorithms can be deployed to coordinate hundreds of robots in large automated …

General intelligence requires rethinking exploration

M Jiang, T Rocktäschel… - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We are at the cusp of a transition from 'learning from data'to 'learning what data to learn
from'as a central focus of artificial intelligence (AI) research. While the first-order learning …

Covariance matrix adaptation map-annealing

M Fontaine, S Nikolaidis - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Single-objective optimization algorithms search for the single highest-quality solution with
respect to an objective. Quality diversity (QD) optimization algorithms, such as Covariance …

BOP-Elites, a Bayesian Optimisation Approach to Quality Diversity Search with Black-Box descriptor functions

P Kent, A Gaier, JB Mouret, J Branke - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.09326, 2023 - arxiv.org
Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms such as MAP-Elites are a class of optimisation techniques
that attempt to find many high performing points that all behave differently according to a …

Evolutionary Machine Learning and Games

J Togelius, A Khalifa, S Earle, MC Green… - Handbook of Evolutionary …, 2023 - Springer
Evolutionary machine learning (EML) has been applied to games in multiple ways, and for
multiple different purposes. Importantly, AI research in games is not only about playing …

Automated test suite generation for software product lines based on quality-diversity optimization

Y **ang, H Huang, S Li, M Li, C Luo… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A Software Product Line (SPL) is a set of software products that are built from a variability
model. Real-world SPLs typically involve a vast number of valid products, making it …