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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

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a popular method for post-training large language models (LLMs). While improving the model's performance on downstream tasks, it often reduces the model's output diversity, leading to narrow,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yilei Chen , Souradip Chakraborty , Lorenz Wolf , Yannis Paschalidis , Aldo Pacchiano

Quality-Diversity (QD) has demonstrated potential in discovering collections of diverse solutions to optimisation problems. Originally designed for deterministic environments, QD has been extended to noisy, stochastic, or uncertain domains…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Manon Flageat , Johann Huber , François Helenon , Stephane Doncieux , Antoine Cully

While the field of Quality-Diversity (QD) has grown into a distinct branch of stochastic optimization, a few problems, in particular locomotion and navigation tasks, have become de facto standards. Are such benchmarks sufficient? Are they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Achkan Salehi , Stephane Doncieux

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

In many text-generation problems, users may prefer not only a single response, but a diverse range of high-quality outputs from which to choose. Quality-diversity (QD) search algorithms aim at such outcomes, by continually improving and…

A hallmark of intelligence is the ability to exhibit a wide range of effective behaviors. Inspired by this principle, Quality-Diversity algorithms, such as MAP-Elites, are evolutionary methods designed to generate a set of diverse and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Maxence Faldor , Félix Chalumeau , Manon Flageat , Antoine Cully

Quality-Diversity (QD) is a concept from Neuroevolution with some intriguing applications to Reinforcement Learning. It facilitates learning a population of agents where each member is optimized to simultaneously accumulate high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Tanmay Gangwani , Jian Peng , Yuan Zhou

Training generally capable agents that thoroughly explore their environment and learn new and diverse skills is a long-term goal of robot learning. Quality Diversity Reinforcement Learning (QD-RL) is an emerging research area that blends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Sumeet Batra , Bryon Tjanaka , Matthew C. Fontaine , Aleksei Petrenko , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Gaurav Sukhatme

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

Creating diverse sets of high quality solutions has become an important problem in recent years. Previous works on diverse solutions problems consider solutions' objective quality and diversity where one is regarded as the optimization goal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Contemporary deep learning, characterized by the training of cumbersome neural networks on massive datasets, confronts substantial computational hurdles. To alleviate heavy data storage burdens on limited hardware resources, numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Muquan Li , Dongyang Zhang , Qiang Dong , Xiurui Xie , Ke Qin

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

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training neural policies to solve complex control tasks. However, these policies tend to be overfit to the exact specifications of the task and environment they were…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Felix Chalumeau , Raphael Boige , Bryan Lim , Valentin Macé , Maxime Allard , Arthur Flajolet , Antoine Cully , Thomas Pierrot

Differential MAP-Elites is a novel algorithm that combines the illumination capacity of CVT-MAP-Elites with the continuous-space optimization capacity of Differential Evolution. The algorithm is motivated by observations that illumination…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tae Jong Choi , Julian Togelius

In creative design, where aesthetics play a crucial role in determining the quality of outcomes, there are often multiple worthwhile possibilities, rather than a single ``best'' design. This challenge is compounded in the use of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella , Stephen James Krol

The quality of data driven learning algorithms scales significantly with the quality of data available. One of the most straight-forward ways to generate good data is to sample or explore the data source intelligently. Smart sampling can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Steffen Gracla , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Quality diversity algorithms can be used to efficiently create a diverse set of solutions to inform engineers' intuition. But quality diversity is not efficient in very expensive problems, needing 100.000s of evaluations. Even with the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Alexander Hagg , Martin L. Kliemank , Alexander Asteroth , Dominik Wilde , Mario C. Bedrunka , Holger Foysi , Dirk Reith

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

Multiobjective feature selection seeks to determine the most discriminative feature subset by simultaneously optimizing two conflicting objectives: minimizing the number of selected features and the classification error rate. The goal is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhenxing Zhang , Qianxiang An , Yilei Wang , Chenfeng Wu , Baoling Dong , Chunjie Zhou