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Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have recently gained traction as optimisation methods due to their effectiveness at escaping local optima and capability of generating wide-ranging and high-performing solutions. Recently, Multi-Objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Hannah Janmohamed , Thomas Pierrot , 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

The Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization aims to discover a collection of high-performing solutions that simultaneously exhibit diverse behaviors within a user-defined behavior space. This paradigm has stimulated significant research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xi Lin , Ping Guo , Yilu Liu , Qingfu Zhang , Jianyong Sun

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

Quality-Diversity (QD) optimisation is a new family of learning algorithms that aims at generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions. Among those algorithms, the recently introduced Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Elites…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Antoine Cully

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

In a variety of domains, from robotics to finance, Quality-Diversity algorithms have been used to generate collections of both diverse and high-performing solutions. Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity algorithms have emerged as a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hannah Janmohamed , Maxence Faldor , Thomas Pierrot , Antoine Cully

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

With the development of fast and massively parallel evaluations in many domains, Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms, that already proved promising in a large range of applications, have seen their potential multiplied. However, we have yet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Manon Flageat , Bryan Lim , Antoine Cully

In many real-world systems, such as adaptive robotics, achieving a single, optimised solution may be insufficient. Instead, a diverse set of high-performing solutions is often required to adapt to varying contexts and requirements. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Garðar Ingvarsson , Mikayel Samvelyan , Bryan Lim , Manon Flageat , Antoine Cully , Tim Rocktäschel

Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization is an emerging field that focuses on finding a set of behaviorally diverse and high-quality solutions. While the quality is typically defined w.r.t. a single objective function, recent work on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shihan Zhao , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Single-objective optimization algorithms search for the single highest-quality solution with respect to an objective. Quality diversity (QD) optimization algorithms, such as Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Elites (CMA-ME), search for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis

When using Quality Diversity (QD) optimization to solve hard exploration or deceptive search problems, we assume that diversity is extrinsically valuable. This means that diversity is important to help us reach an objective, but is not an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ryan Boldi , Lee Spector

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

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 user-defined behavioural metric. In this paper we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Paul Kent , Adam Gaier , Jean-Baptiste Mouret , Juergen Branke

Real-world problems are often comprised of many objectives and require solutions that carefully trade-off between them. Current approaches to many-objective optimization often require challenging assumptions, like knowledge of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jackson Dean , Nick Cheney

Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms have been proposed to search for a large collection of both diverse and high-performing solutions instead of a single set of local optima. While early QD algorithms view the objective and descriptor…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Raphael Boige , Guillaume Richard , Jérémie Dona , Thomas Pierrot , Antoine Cully

In Evolutionary Robotics a population of solutions is evolved to optimize robots that solve a given task. However, in traditional Evolutionary Algorithms, the population of solutions tends to converge to local optima when the problem is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Jørgen Nordmoen , Frank Veenstra , Kai Olav Ellefsen , Kyrre Glette

Real-world optimization often demands diverse, high-quality solutions. Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization is a multifaceted approach in evolutionary algorithms that aims to generate a set of solutions that are both high-performing and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Meng Xu , Frank Neumann , Aneta Neumann , Yew Soon Ong

Traditional optimization algorithms search for a single global optimum that maximizes (or minimizes) the objective function. Multimodal optimization algorithms search for the highest peaks in the search space that can be more than one.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis , Antoine Cully , Vassilis Vassiliades , Jean-Baptiste Mouret
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