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In real-world applications, users often favor structurally diverse design choices over one high-quality solution. It is hence important to consider more solutions that decision makers can compare and further explore based on additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Maria Laura Santoni , Elena Raponi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Mike Preuss , Carola Doerr

Evolutionary algorithms have been successfully applied to a variety of optimisation problems in stationary environments. However, many real world optimisation problems are set in dynamic environments where the success criteria shifts…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Matthew Hughes

Population diversity is crucial in evolutionary algorithms to enable global exploration and to avoid poor performance due to premature convergence. This book chapter reviews runtime analyses that have shown benefits of population diversity,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Dirk Sudholt

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

Heuristic search is a powerful approach for solving planning problems and numeric planning is no exception. In this paper, we boost the performance of heuristic search for numeric planning with various powerful techniques orthogonal to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dillon Z. Chen , Sylvie Thiébaux

Diversity plays a crucial role in evolutionary computation. While diversity has been mainly used to prevent the population of an evolutionary algorithm from premature convergence, the use of evolutionary algorithms to obtain a diverse set…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Aneta Neumann , Wanru Gao , Carola Doerr , Frank Neumann , Markus Wagner

Quality-Diversity algorithms refer to a class of evolutionary algorithms designed to find a collection of diverse and high-performing solutions to a given problem. In robotics, such algorithms can be used for generating a collection of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

Quality diversity (QD) algorithms have been shown to be very successful when dealing with problems in areas such as robotics, games and combinatorial optimization. They aim to maximize the quality of solutions for different regions of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Anh Viet Do , Frank Neumann

One of the long-standing questions in search systems is the role of diversity in results. From a product perspective, showing diverse results provides the user with more choice and should lead to an improved experience. However, this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Mustafa Abdool , Malay Haldar , Prashant Ramanathan , Tyler Sax , Lanbo Zhang , Aamir Mansawala , Shulin Yang , Thomas Legrand

Machine learning methods have achieved good performance and been widely applied in various real-world applications. They can learn the model adaptively and be better fit for special requirements of different tasks. Generally, a good machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zhiqiang Gong , Ping Zhong , Weidong Hu

This research introduces a new strategy in cluster ensemble selection by using Independency and Diversity metrics. In recent years, Diversity and Quality, which are two metrics in evaluation procedure, have been used for selecting basic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-11 Muhammad Yousefnezhad , Ali Reihanian , Daoqiang Zhang , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

In search and recommendation, diversifying the multi-aspect search results could help with reducing redundancy, and promoting results that might not be shown otherwise. Many previous methods have been proposed for this task. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Jianghong Zhou , Eugene Agichtein , Surya Kallumadi

The paper presents the investigation and implementation of the relationship between diversity and the performance of multiple classifiers on classification accuracy. The study is critical as to build classifiers that are strong and can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-10-22 R. Musehane , F. Netshiongolwe , F. V. Nelwamondo , L. Masisi , T. Marwala

Diversity optimization seeks to discover a set of solutions that elicit diverse features. Prior work has proposed Novelty Search (NS), which, given a current set of solutions, seeks to expand the set by finding points in areas of low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 David H. Lee , Anishalakshmi V. Palaparthi , Matthew C. Fontaine , Bryon Tjanaka , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have exhibited promising results across many domains and applications. However, uncertainty in fitness and behaviour estimations of solutions remains a major challenge when QD is used in complex real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Manon Flageat , Hannah Janmohamed , Bryan Lim , Antoine Cully

Behavior domination is proposed as a tool for understanding and harnessing the power of evolutionary systems to discover and exploit useful stepping stones. Novelty search has shown promise in overcoming deception by collecting diverse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

Diversity is a concept of prime importance in almost all disciplines based on information processing. In telecommunications, for example, spatial, temporal, and frequency diversity, as well as redundant coding, are fundamental concepts that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Brahim Oubaha , Claude Berrou , Xueyao Ji , Yehya Nasser , Raphaël Le Bidan

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 algorithms aim at such outcomes, by continually improving and…

While standard approaches to optimisation focus on producing a single high-performing solution, Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms allow large diverse collections of such solutions to be found. If QD has proven promising across a large…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Manon Flageat , Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

In this work, we consider the problem of Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization with multiple objectives. QD algorithms have been proposed to search for a large collection of both diverse and high-performing solutions instead of a single set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Thomas Pierrot , Guillaume Richard , Karim Beguir , Antoine Cully