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The optimization of functions to find the best solution according to one or several objectives has a central role in many engineering and research fields. Recently, a new family of optimization algorithms, named Quality-Diversity…

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Designing the topology of three-dimensional structures is a challenging problem due to its memory and time consumption. In this paper, we present a robust and efficient algorithm for solving large-scale 3D topology optimization problems.…

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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

Reinforcement Learning is the premier technique to approach sequential decision problems, including complex tasks such as driving cars and landing spacecraft. Among the software validation and verification practices, testing for functional…

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Designing functional materials requires a deep search through multidimensional spaces for system parameters that yield desirable material properties. For cases where conventional parameter sweeps or trial-and-error sampling are impractical,…

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Generating realistic building layouts for automatic building design has been studied in both the computer vision and architecture domains. Traditional approaches from the architecture domain, which are based on optimization techniques or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiachen Liu , Yuan Xue , Haomiao Ni , Rui Yu , Zihan Zhou , Sharon X. Huang

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

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms evolve behaviourally diverse and high-performing solutions. To illuminate the elite solutions for a space of behaviours, QD algorithms require the definition of a suitable behaviour space. If the behaviour…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David M. Bossens , Danesh Tarapore

Approximating wind flows using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods can be time-consuming. Creating a tool for interactively designing prototypes while observing the wind flow change requires simpler models to simulate faster. Instead…

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Deep learning networks excel at classification, yet identifying minimal architectures that reliably solve a task remains challenging. We present a computational methodology for systematically exploring and analyzing the relationships among…

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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…

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Quality-Diversity optimisation algorithms enable the evolution of collections of both high-performing and diverse solutions. These collections offer the possibility to quickly adapt and switch from one solution to another in case it is not…

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Recent works have shown that by curating high quality and diverse instruction tuning datasets, we can significantly improve instruction-following capabilities. However, creating such datasets is difficult and most works rely on manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Alexander Bukharin , Shiyang Li , Zhengyang Wang , Jingfeng Yang , Bing Yin , Xian Li , Chao Zhang , Tuo Zhao , Haoming Jiang

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are powerful exploration algorithms that allow robots to discover large repertoires of diverse and high-performing skills. However, QD algorithms are sample inefficient and require millions of evaluations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Bryan Lim , Luca Grillotti , Lorenzo Bernasconi , Antoine Cully

Quality diversity is a recent family of evolutionary search algorithms which focus on finding several well-performing (quality) yet different (diversity) solutions with the aim to maintain an appropriate balance between divergence and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Daniele Gravina , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization algorithms are a well-known approach to generate large collections of diverse and high-quality solutions. However, derived from evolutionary computation, QD algorithms are population-based methods which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Bryan Lim , Maxime Allard , Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

Deep learning models are widely used across computer vision and other domains. When working on the model induction, selecting the right architecture for a given dataset often relies on repetitive trial-and-error procedures. This procedure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yen-Chia Chen , Hsing-Kuo Pao , Hanjuan Huang

Quality-Diversity has emerged as a powerful family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse populations of high-performing solutions by implementing local competition principles inspired by biological evolution. While these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Maxence Faldor , Robert Tjarko Lange , Antoine Cully

This study presents a deep learning methodology using 3-dimensional (3D) convolutional neural networks to detect defects in carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites through volumetric ultrasonic testing data. Acquiring large amounts of…

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