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We propose the Interactive Constrained MAP-Elites, a quality-diversity solution for game content generation, implemented as a new feature of the Evolutionary Dungeon Designer: a mixed-initiative co-creativity tool for designing dungeons.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alberto Alvarez , Steve Dahlskog , Jose Font , Julian Togelius

Ensuring that generative AI systems align with human values is essential but challenging, especially when considering multiple human values and their potential trade-offs. Since human values can be personalized and dynamically change over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xinran Wang , Qi Le , Ammar Ahmed , Enmao Diao , Yi Zhou , Nathalie Baracaldo , Jie Ding , Ali Anwar

Quality diversity (QD) algorithms such as MAP-Elites have emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional single-objective optimization methods. They were initially applied to evolutionary robotics problems such as locomotion and maze…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Matthew C. Fontaine , Scott Lee , L. B. Soros , Fernando De Mesentier Silva , Julian Togelius , Amy K. Hoover

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 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

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

Quality-Diversity algorithms, among which MAP-Elites, have emerged as powerful alternatives to performance-only optimisation approaches as they enable generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions to an optimisation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Manon Flageat , Felix Chalumeau , Antoine Cully

In a variety of domains, from robotics to finance, Quality-Diversity algorithms have been used to generate collections of both diverse and high-performing solutions. Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity algorithms have emerged as a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hannah Janmohamed , Maxence Faldor , Thomas Pierrot , Antoine Cully

The resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is an NP-Hard combinatorial optimization problem. The objective of RCPSP is to schedule a set of activities without violating any activity precedence or resource constraints. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Shelvin Chand , Kousik Rajesh , Rohitash Chandra

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

We focus on the challenge of finding a diverse collection of quality solutions on complex continuous domains. While quality diver-sity (QD) algorithms like Novelty Search with Local Competition (NSLC) and MAP-Elites are designed to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Matthew C. Fontaine , Julian Togelius , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Amy K. Hoover

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

Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problems (WSRP) are very common in many practical domains, and usually, have a number of objectives. Illumination algorithms such as Map-Elites (ME) have recently gained traction in application to {\em…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Neil Urquhart , Emma Hart

Addressing the need for explainable Machine Learning has emerged as one of the most important research directions in modern Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the current dominant paradigm in the field is based on black-box models,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Andrea Ferigo , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Quality-Diversity algorithms, such as MAP-Elites, are a branch of Evolutionary Computation generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, that have been successfully applied to a variety of domains and particularly in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Maxence Faldor , Félix Chalumeau , Manon Flageat , Antoine Cully

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are a new type of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), aiming to find a set of high-performing, yet diverse solutions. They have found many successful applications in reinforcement learning and robotics, helping…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chao Qian , Ke Xue , Ren-Jian Wang

In certain complex optimization tasks, it becomes necessary to use multiple measures to characterize the performance of different algorithms. This paper presents a method that combines ordinal effect sizes with Pareto dominance to analyze…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Eivind Samuelsen , Kyrre Glette

The increasing importance of robots and automation creates a demand for learnable controllers which can be obtained through various approaches such as Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) or Reinforcement Learning (RL). Unfortunately, these two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Szymon Brych , Antoine Cully

In mixed-initiative co-creation tasks, wherein a human and a machine jointly create items, it is important to provide multiple relevant suggestions to the designer. Quality-diversity algorithms are commonly used for this purpose, as they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Roberto Gallotta , Kai Arulkumaran , L. B. Soros

Multi-task learning, which optimizes performance across multiple tasks, is inherently a multi-objective optimization problem. Various algorithms are developed to provide discrete trade-off solutions on the Pareto front. Recently, continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weiyu Chen , James T. Kwok