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Complex system design problems, such as those involved in aerospace engineering, require the use of numerically costly simulation codes in order to predict the performance of the system to be designed. In this context, these codes are often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Loic Brevault , Mathieu Balesdent

Maximum diversity aims at selecting a diverse set of high-quality objects from a collection, which is a fundamental problem and has a wide range of applications, e.g., in Web search. Diversity under a uniform or partition matroid constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Guangyi Zhang , Aristides Gionis

Navigating deceptive domains has often been a challenge in machine learning due to search algorithms getting stuck at sub-optimal local optima. Many algorithms have been proposed to navigate these domains by explicitly maintaining diversity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ryan Boldi , Li Ding , Lee Spector

Evolutionary search via the quality-diversity (QD) paradigm can discover highly performing solutions in different behavioural niches, showing considerable potential in complex real-world scenarios such as evolutionary robotics. Yet most QD…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Roberto Gallotta , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

A fascinating aspect of nature lies in its ability to produce a large and diverse collection of organisms that are all high-performing in their niche. By contrast, most AI algorithms focus on finding a single efficient solution to a given…

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have emerged as a powerful optimization paradigm with the aim of generating a set of high-quality and diverse solutions. To achieve such a challenging goal, QD algorithms require maintaining a large archive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ren-Jian Wang , Ke Xue , Cong Guan , Chao Qian

Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization algorithms are a well-known approach to generate large collections of diverse and high-quality solutions. However, derived from evolutionary computation, QD algorithms are population-based methods which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Bryan Lim , Maxime Allard , Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms are a recent family of optimization algorithms that search for a large set of diverse but high-performing solutions. In some specific situations, they can solve multiple tasks at once. For instance, they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jean-Baptiste Mouret , Glenn Maguire

Submodular functions allow to model many real-world optimisation problems. This paper introduces approaches for computing diverse sets of high quality solutions for submodular optimisation problems. We first present diversifying greedy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Aneta Neumann , Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms such as MAP-Elites are a class of optimisation techniques that attempt to find a set of high-performing points from an objective function while enforcing behavioural diversity of the points over one or more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Paul Kent , Juergen Branke

An iterative computer-aided ideation procedure is introduced, building on recent quality-diversity algorithms, which search for diverse as well as high-performing solutions. Dimensionality reduction is used to define a similarity space, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Alexander Hagg , Alexander Asteroth , Thomas Bäck

A fascinating aspect of nature lies in its ability to produce a collection of organisms that are all high-performing in their niche. Quality-Diversity (QD) methods are evolutionary algorithms inspired by this observation, that obtained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Felix Chalumeau , Thomas Pierrot , Valentin Macé , Arthur Flajolet , Karim Beguir , Antoine Cully , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

Quality diversity (QD) is a growing branch of stochastic optimization research that studies the problem of generating an archive of solutions that maximize a given objective function but are also diverse with respect to a set of specified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis

More and more, optimization methods are used to find diverse solution sets. We compare solution diversity in multi-objective optimization, multimodal optimization, and quality diversity in a simple domain. We show that multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Alexander Hagg , Mike Preuss , Alexander Asteroth , Thomas Bäck

Diversification in a set of solutions has become a hot research topic in the evolutionary computation community. It has been proven beneficial for optimisation problems in several ways, such as computing a diverse set of high-quality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Amirhossein Moosavi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The initial phase in real world engineering optimization and design is a process of discovery in which not all requirements can be made in advance, or are hard to formalize. Quality diversity algorithms, which produce a variety of high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Alexander Hagg , Alexander Asteroth , Thomas Bäck

Quality-diversity (QD) algorithms search for a set of good solutions which cover a space as defined by behavior metrics. This simultaneous focus on quality and diversity with explicit metrics sets QD algorithms apart from standard single-…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Daniele Gravina , Ahmed Khalifa , Antonios Liapis , Julian Togelius , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Classification is one of the most studied tasks in data mining and machine learning areas and many works in the literature have been presented to solve classification problems for multiple fields of knowledge such as medicine, biology,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Alvaro R. Ferreira , Fabio A. Faria , Gustavo Carneiro , Vinicius V. de Melo

Quality Diversity (QD) has shown great success in discovering high-performing, diverse policies for robot skill learning. While current benchmarks have led to the development of powerful QD methods, we argue that new paradigms must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Sumeet Batra , Bryon Tjanaka , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Gaurav Sukhatme

Quality Diversity (QD) has emerged as a powerful alternative optimization paradigm that aims at generating large and diverse collections of solutions, notably with its flagship algorithm MAP-ELITES (ME) which evolves solutions through…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Thomas Pierrot , Arthur Flajolet