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The development of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been largely driven by ambitious challenge tasks and benchmarks. Games have dominated RL benchmarks because they present relevant challenges, are inexpensive to run and easy to…

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…

While standard approaches to optimisation focus on producing a single high-performing solution, Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms allow large diverse collections of such solutions to be found. If QD has proven promising across a large…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Manon Flageat , Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

The landscape of optimization problems has become increasingly complex, necessitating the development of advanced optimization techniques. Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO), which involves refining the optimization algorithms themselves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xu Yang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Tao Zhang , Fujun He

Inspired by natural evolutionary processes, Evolutionary Computation (EC) has established itself as a cornerstone of Artificial Intelligence. Recently, with the surge in data-intensive applications and large-scale complex systems, the…

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We present Rieoptax, an open source Python library for Riemannian optimization in JAX. We show that many differential geometric primitives, such as Riemannian exponential and logarithm maps, are usually faster in Rieoptax than existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Saiteja Utpala , Andi Han , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Quantum algorithms are getting extremely popular due to their potential to significantly outperform classical algorithms. Yet, applying quantum algorithms to optimization problems meets challenges related to the efficiency of quantum…

High-dimensional numerical optimization presents a persistent challenge in computational science. This paper introduces Quasi-Adaptive Search with Asymptotic Reinitialization (QUASAR), an evolutionary algorithm to accelerate convergence in…

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We introduce GRiD: a GPU-accelerated library for computing rigid body dynamics with analytical gradients. GRiD was designed to accelerate the nonlinear trajectory optimization subproblem used in state-of-the-art robotic planning, control,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Brian Plancher , Sabrina M. Neuman , Radhika Ghosal , Scott Kuindersma , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Instruction tuning improves the performance of large language models (LLMs), but it heavily relies on high-quality training data. Recently, LLMs have been used to synthesize instruction data using seed question-answer (QA) pairs. However,…

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Classification is at the core of data-driven prediction and decision-making, representing a fundamental task in supervised machine learning. Recently, several quantum machine learning algorithms that use quantum kernels as a measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Jungyun Lee , Daniel K. Park

At the interception between quantum computing and machine learning, Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) has emerged as a promising research field. Due to its novelty, a standardized and comprehensive collection for QRL algorithms has not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Georg Kruse , Rodrigo Coelho , Andreas Rosskopf , Robert Wille , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Quantum computing leverages quantum mechanics to address computational problems in ways that differ fundamentally from classical approaches. While current quantum hardware remains error-prone and limited in scale, Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Michael Kölle , Simon Salfer , Tobias Rohe , Philipp Altmann , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Selecting influential data for fine-tuning on downstream tasks is a key factor for both performance and computation efficiency. Recent works have shown that training with only limited data can show a superior performance on general tasks.…

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The QED-C suite of Application-Oriented Benchmarks provides the ability to gauge performance characteristics of quantum computers as applied to real-world applications. Its benchmark programs sweep over a range of problem sizes and inputs,…

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

We study large-scale applications using a GPU-accelerated version of the massively parallel J\"ulich universal quantum computer simulator (JUQCS--G). First, we benchmark JUWELS Booster, a GPU cluster with 3744 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Dennis Willsch , Madita Willsch , Fengping Jin , Kristel Michielsen , Hans De Raedt

This project aims to advance differentiable fluid dynamics for hypersonic coupled flow over porous media, demonstrating the potential of automatic differentiation (AD)-based optimization for end-to-end solutions. Leveraging AD efficiently…

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The design of environments plays a critical role in shaping the development and evaluation of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms. While existing benchmarks highlight critical challenges, they often lack the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hayeong Lee , JunHyeok Oh , Byung-Jun Lee

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