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We present the first application of MAP-Elites, a quality-diversity algorithm, to trade execution. Rather than searching for a single optimal policy, MAP-Elites generates a diverse portfolio of regime-specialist strategies indexed by…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-02 Robert de Witt , Mikko S. Pakkanen

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

In this study, linear matrix inequality (LMI) approaches and multiobjective (MO) evolutionary algorithms are integrated to design controllers. An MO matrix inequality problem (MOMIP) is first defined. A hybrid MO differential evolution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Wei-Yu Chiu

Quality-Diversity optimisation (QD) has proven to yield promising results across a broad set of applications. However, QD approaches struggle in the presence of uncertainty in the environment, as it impacts their ability to quantify the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Manon Flageat , Antoine Cully

A multi-modal multi-objective optimization problem is a special kind of multi-objective optimization problem with multiple Pareto subsets. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-modal multi-objective optimization algorithm based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

Efficiently solving multi-objective optimization problems for simulation optimization of important scientific and engineering applications such as materials design is becoming an increasingly important research topic. This is due largely to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Eric Hans Lee , Bolong Cheng , Michael McCourt

Model rocketry presents a design task accessible to undergraduates while remaining an interesting challenge. Allowing for variation in fins, nose cones, and body tubes presents a rich design space containing numerous ways to achieve various…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jacob Schrum , Cody Crosby

Despite recent progress in robot learning, it still remains a challenge to program a robot to deal with open-ended object manipulation tasks. One approach that was recently used to autonomously generate a repertoire of diverse skills is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Leon Keller , Daniel Tanneberg , Svenja Stark , Jan Peters

The goal of Quality Diversity Optimization is to generate a collection of diverse yet high-performing solutions to a given problem at hand. Typical benchmark problems are, for example, finding a repertoire of robot arm configurations or a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Lennart Schneider , Florian Pfisterer , Janek Thomas , Bernd Bischl

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

This paper introduces a user-driven evolutionary algorithm based on Quality Diversity (QD) search. During a design session, the user iteratively selects among presented alternatives and their selections affect the upcoming results. We aim…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Konstantinos Sfikas , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

We propose Multi-Task Multi-Behavior MAP-Elites, a variant of MAP-Elites that finds a large number of high-quality solutions for a large set of tasks (optimization problems from a given family). It combines the original MAP-Elites for the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Anne , Mouret

Designing optimal soft modular robots is difficult, due to non-trivial interactions between morphology and controller. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), combined with physical simulators, represent a valid tool to overcome this issue. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Enrico Zardini , Davide Zappetti , Davide Zambrano , Giovanni Iacca , Dario Floreano

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

Most of existing neural methods for multi-objective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems solely rely on decomposition, which often leads to repetitive solutions for the respective subproblems, thus a limited Pareto set. Beyond…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jinbiao Chen , Zizhen Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Yaoxin Wu , Yining Ma , Te Ye , Jiahai Wang

Constrained optimization problems are often characterized by multiple constraints that, in the practice, must be satisfied with different tolerance levels. While some constraints are hard and as such must be satisfied with zero-tolerance,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Stefano Fioravanzo , Giovanni Iacca

Optimistic methods have been applied with success to single-objective optimization. Here, we attempt to bridge the gap between optimistic methods and multi-objective optimization. In particular, this paper is concerned with solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Abdullah Al-Dujaili , S. Suresh

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

We use the Quality Diversity (QD) algorithm with Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) to automatically evaluate Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms by generating diverse maps. Previously, researchers typically evaluate MAPF algorithms on a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Cheng Qian , Yulun Zhang , Varun Bhatt , Matthew Christopher Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Jiaoyang Li