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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

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms constitute a branch of optimization that is concerned with discovering a diverse and high-quality set of solutions to an optimization problem. Current QD methods commonly maintain diversity by dividing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Saeed Hedayatian , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have exhibited promising results across many domains and applications. However, uncertainty in fitness and behaviour estimations of solutions remains a major challenge when QD is used in complex real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Manon Flageat , Hannah Janmohamed , Bryan Lim , Antoine Cully

We present a Quality-Diversity benchmark suite for Deep Neuroevolution in Reinforcement Learning domains for robot control. The suite includes the definition of tasks, environments, behavioral descriptors, and fitness. We specify different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Manon Flageat , Bryan Lim , Luca Grillotti , Maxime Allard , Simón C. Smith , Antoine Cully

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

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) algorithms excel at discovering diverse repertoires of skills, but are hindered by poor sample efficiency and often require tens of millions of environment steps to solve complex locomotion tasks. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Behrad Koohy , Jamie Bayne

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

Consider the problem of training robustly capable agents. One approach is to generate a diverse collection of agent polices. Training can then be viewed as a quality diversity (QD) optimization problem, where we search for a collection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Bryon Tjanaka , Matthew C. Fontaine , Julian Togelius , Stefanos Nikolaidis

In the context of neuroevolution, Quality-Diversity algorithms have proven effective in generating repertoires of diverse and efficient policies by relying on the definition of a behavior space. A natural goal induced by the creation of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Valentin Macé , Raphaël Boige , Felix Chalumeau , Thomas Pierrot , Guillaume Richard , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

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

The synergies between Quality-Diversity (QD) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) have led to powerful hybrid QD-RL algorithms that have shown tremendous potential, and brings the best of both fields. However, only a single deep RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Bryan Lim , Manon Flageat , Antoine Cully

Reinforcement learning holds the promise of enabling autonomous robots to learn large repertoires of behavioral skills with minimal human intervention. However, robotic applications of reinforcement learning often compromise the autonomy of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Shixiang Gu , Ethan Holly , Timothy Lillicrap , Sergey Levine

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 have been shown to be very successful when dealing with problems in areas such as robotics, games and combinatorial optimization. They aim to maximize the quality of solutions for different regions of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Anh Viet Do , Frank Neumann

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Quentin Mazouni , Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb , Mathieu Acher

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

Quality diversity~(QD) is a branch of evolutionary computation that gained increasing interest in recent years. The Map-Elites QD approach defines a feature space, i.e., a partition of the search space, and stores the best solution for each…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jakob Bossek , Dirk Sudholt

Given a list of behaviors and associated parameterized controllers for solving different individual tasks, we study the problem of selecting an optimal sequence of coordinated behaviors in multi-robot systems for completing a given mission,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Pietro Pierpaoli , Thinh T. Doan , Justin Romberg , Magnus Egerstedt

A fascinating aspect of nature lies in its ability to produce a large and diverse collection of organisms that are all high-performing in their niche. By contrast, most AI algorithms focus on finding a single efficient solution to a given…