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In this paper we present theory and algorithms enabling classes of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to continuously and incrementally improve with a-priori quantifiable guarantees - or more specifically remove classification errors -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ivan Y. Tyukin , Alexander N. Gorban , Alistair A. McEwan , Sepehr Meshkinfamfard , Lixin Tang

In multiple instance learning, objects are sets (bags) of feature vectors (instances) rather than individual feature vectors. In this paper we address the problem of how these bags can best be represented. Two standard approaches are to use…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-12 Veronika Cheplygina , David M. J. Tax , Marco Loog

Classification models are a key component of structural digital twin technologies used for supporting asset management decision-making. An important consideration when developing classification models is the dimensionality of the input, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Aidan J. Hughes , Keith Worden , Nikolaos Dervilis , Timothy J. Rogers

Process discovery aims at automatically creating process models on the basis of event data captured during the execution of business processes. Process discovery algorithms tend to use all of the event data to discover a process model. This…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Mathilde Boltenhagen , Wil van der Aalst

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

A generative design based on topology optimization provides diverse alternatives as entities in a computational model with a high design degree. However, as the diversity of the generated alternatives increases, the cognitive burden on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ryo Tsumoto , Kentaro Yaji , Yutaka Nomaguchi , Kikuo Fujita

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are a new type of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), aiming to find a set of high-performing, yet diverse solutions. They have found many successful applications in reinforcement learning and robotics, helping…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chao Qian , Ke Xue , Ren-Jian Wang

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…

As the use of online platforms continues to grow across all demographics, users often express a desire to feel represented in the content. To improve representation in search results and recommendations, we introduce end-to-end…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Pedro Silva , Bhawna Juneja , Shloka Desai , Ashudeep Singh , Nadia Fawaz

Heterogeneous object design is an active research area in recent years. The conventional CAD modeling approaches only provide geometry and topology of the object, but do not contain any information with regard to the materials of the object…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-04-22 Vikas Gupta , K. S. Kasana , Puneet Tandon

Quality diversity (QD) optimization searches for a collection of solutions that optimize an objective while attaining diverse outputs of a user-specified, vector-valued measure function. Contemporary QD algorithms are typically limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Bryon Tjanaka , Henry Chen , Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Current top performing object recognition systems build on object proposals as a preprocessing step. Object proposal algorithms are designed to generate candidate regions for generic objects, yet current approaches are limited in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Anton Winschel , Rainer Lienhart , Christian Eggert

The design of new devices and experiments in science and engineering has historically relied on the intuitions of human experts. This credo, however, has changed. In many disciplines, computer-inspired design processes, also known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Mario Krenn , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

This paper presents a novel kernel-based generative classifier which is defined in a distortion subspace using polynomial series expansion, named Kernel-Distortion (KD) classifier. An iterative kernel selection algorithm is developed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-22 Bo Tang , Paul M. Baggenstoss , Haibo He

A prevalent limitation of optimizing over a single objective is that it can be misguided, becoming trapped in local optimum. This can be rectified by Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms, where a population of high-quality and diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ryan Wickman , Bibek Poudel , Michael Villarreal , Xiaofei Zhang , Weizi Li

When performing classification tasks, raw high dimensional features often contain redundant information, and lead to increased computational complexity and overfitting. In this paper, we assume the data samples lie on a single underlying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Bowen Jiang , Maohao Shen

Geometric Deep Learning techniques have become a transformative force in the field of Computer-Aided Design (CAD), and have the potential to revolutionize how designers and engineers approach and enhance the design process. By harnessing…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Negar Heidari , Alexandros Iosifidis

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

We propose the use of quality-diversity algorithms for mixed-initiative game content generation. This idea is implemented as a new feature of the Evolutionary Dungeon Designer, a system for mixed-initiative design of the type of levels you…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Alberto Alvarez , Steve Dahlskog , Jose Font , Julian Togelius

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