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Result diversification is an important aspect in web-based search, document summarization, facility location, portfolio management and other applications. Given a set of ranked results for a set of objects (e.g. web documents, facilities,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Allan Borodin , Aadhar Jain , Hyun Chul Lee , Yuli Ye

Diversification is a useful tool for exploring large collections of information items. It has been used to reduce redundancy and cover multiple perspectives in information-search settings. Diversification finds applications in many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Honglian Wang , Sijing Tu , Aristides Gionis

Quality-Diversity algorithms are powerful tools for discovering diverse, high-performing solutions. Recently, Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity (MOQD) extends QD to problems with several objectives while preserving solution diversity. MOQD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hannah Janmohamed , Antoine Cully

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

Entropy, under a variety of names, has long been used as a measure of diversity in ecology, as well as in genetics, economics and other fields. There is a spectrum of viewpoints on diversity, indexed by a real parameter q giving greater or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Tom Leinster , Mark W. Meckes

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

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are a recent type of optimisation methods that search for a collection of both diverse and high performing solutions. They can be used to effectively explore a target problem according to features defined…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Leo Cazenille

A new formalism to express and operate on diversity measures of qualitative variables, built in a Hilbert space, is presented. The abstract character of the Hilbert space naturally incorporates the equivalence between qualitative variables…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-09 Juan D. Botero , Leonardo A. Pachón

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

Formal definitions of quantities, quantity spaces, dimensions and dimension groups are introduced. Based on these concepts, a theoretical framework and a practical algorithm for dimensional analysis are developed, and examples of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Dan Jonsson

Quantification is the machine learning task of estimating test-data class proportions that are not necessarily similar to those in training. Apart from its intrinsic value as an aggregate statistic, quantification output can also be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Aykut Firat

Reinforcement learning agents need a reward signal to learn successful policies. When this signal is sparse or the corresponding gradient is deceptive, such agents need a dedicated mechanism to efficiently explore their search space without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Alexandre Chenu , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert , Stéphane Doncieux , Olivier Sigaud

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

We define a concept which we call multiplicity. First, multiplicity of a morphism is defined. Then the multiplicity of an object over another object is defined to be the minimum of the multiplicities of all morphisms from one to another.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Kouki Taniyama

The paper attempts to describe the space of possible mind designs by first equating all minds to software. Next it proves some interesting properties of the mind design space such as infinitude of minds, size and representation complexity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-03 Roman V. Yampolskiy

The topic of diversity is an interesting subject, both as a purely mathematical concept and also for its applications to important real-life situations. Unfortunately, although the meaning of diversity seems intuitively clear, no precise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Chris Dowden

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

Diversity is a concept relevant to numerous domains of research varying from ecology, to information theory, and to economics, to cite a few. It is a notion that is steadily gaining attention in the information retrieval, network analysis,…

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

We investigate how quantum coherence can be distributed among the several off-diagonal elements of an arbitrary density matrix. An easily computable quantity that captures this variability notion is proposed and it is argued that it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Fernando Parisio