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Quality-diversity (QD) algorithms search for a set of good solutions which cover a space as defined by behavior metrics. This simultaneous focus on quality and diversity with explicit metrics sets QD algorithms apart from standard single-…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Daniele Gravina , Ahmed Khalifa , Antonios Liapis , Julian Togelius , Georgios N. Yannakakis

In this work, we consider the problem of Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization with multiple objectives. QD algorithms have been proposed to search for a large collection of both diverse and high-performing solutions instead of a single set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Thomas Pierrot , Guillaume Richard , Karim Beguir , Antoine Cully

Generating instances of different properties is key to algorithm selection methods that differentiate between the performance of different solvers for a given combinatorial optimization problem. A wide range of methods using evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization is an emerging field that focuses on finding a set of behaviorally diverse and high-quality solutions. While the quality is typically defined w.r.t. a single objective function, recent work on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shihan Zhao , Stefanos Nikolaidis

With the development of fast and massively parallel evaluations in many domains, Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms, that already proved promising in a large range of applications, have seen their potential multiplied. However, we have yet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Manon Flageat , Bryan Lim , Antoine Cully

When using Quality Diversity (QD) optimization to solve hard exploration or deceptive search problems, we assume that diversity is extrinsically valuable. This means that diversity is important to help us reach an objective, but is not an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ryan Boldi , Lee Spector

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Antoine Cully , Yiannis Demiris

Quality-Diversity optimisation (QD) has proven to yield promising results across a broad set of applications. However, QD approaches struggle in the presence of uncertainty in the environment, as it impacts their ability to quantify the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Manon Flageat , Antoine Cully

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…

Quality diversity (QD) is a branch of evolutionary computation that seeks high-quality and behaviorally diverse solutions to a problem. While adversarial problems are common, classical QD cannot be easily applied to them, as both the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Timothée Anne , Noah Syrkis , Meriem Elhosni , Florian Turati , Alexandre Manai , Franck Legendre , Alain Jaquier , Sebastian Risi

Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms have been proposed to search for a large collection of both diverse and high-performing solutions instead of a single set of local optima. While early QD algorithms view the objective and descriptor…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Raphael Boige , Guillaume Richard , Jérémie Dona , Thomas Pierrot , Antoine Cully

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 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…

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

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

In Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms, which evolve a behaviourally diverse archive of high-performing solutions, the behaviour space is a difficult design choice that should be tailored to the target application. In QD meta-evolution, one…

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

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 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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Jørgen Nordmoen , Frank Veenstra , Kai Olav Ellefsen , Kyrre Glette

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are designed to generate collections of high-performing solutions while maximizing their diversity in a given descriptor space. However, in the presence of unpredictable noise, the fitness and descriptor of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Luca Grillotti , Manon Flageat , Bryan Lim , Antoine Cully

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

Quality-Diversity (QD) optimisation is a new family of learning algorithms that aims at generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions. Among those algorithms, the recently introduced Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Elites…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Antoine Cully