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Multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments is of great industrial value when deploying a large scale fleet of robot to real-world applications. This paper proposes a decentralized partially observable multi-agent path planning with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zuxin Liu , Baiming Chen , Hongyi Zhou , Guru Koushik , Martial Hebert , Ding Zhao

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms seek to discover diverse, high-performing solutions across a behavior space, in contrast to conventional optimization methods that target a single optimum. Adversarial problems present unique challenges for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Timothée Anne , Noah Syrkis , Meriem Elhosni , Florian Turati , Franck Legendre , Alain Jaquier , Sebastian Risi

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have shown remarkable success in discovering diverse, high-performing solutions, but rely heavily on hand-crafted behavioral descriptors that constrain exploration to predefined notions of diversity.…

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

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

A key aspect of intelligence is the ability to demonstrate a broad spectrum of behaviors for adapting to unexpected situations. Over the past decade, advancements in deep reinforcement learning have led to groundbreaking achievements to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Luca Grillotti , Maxence Faldor , Borja G. León , Antoine Cully

This paper introduces a user-driven evolutionary algorithm based on Quality Diversity (QD) search. During a design session, the user iteratively selects among presented alternatives and their selections affect the upcoming results. We aim…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Konstantinos Sfikas , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

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

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) 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 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

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have emerged as a powerful optimization paradigm with the aim of generating a set of high-quality and diverse solutions. To achieve such a challenging goal, QD algorithms require maintaining a large archive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ren-Jian Wang , Ke Xue , Cong Guan , Chao Qian

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 algorithms have transformed optimization by prioritizing the discovery of diverse, high-performing solutions over a single optimal result. However, traditional Quality-Diversity methods, such as MAP-Elites, rely heavily on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Constantinos Tsakonas , Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis

Traditional optimization algorithms search for a single global optimum that maximizes (or minimizes) the objective function. Multimodal optimization algorithms search for the highest peaks in the search space that can be more than one.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis , Antoine Cully , Vassilis Vassiliades , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

In the real world, many tasks require multiple agents to cooperate with each other under the condition of local observations. To solve such problems, many multi-agent reinforcement learning methods based on Centralized Training with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Zhiwei Xu , Dapeng Li , Yunpeng Bai , Guoliang Fan

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms can discover large and complex behavioural repertoires consisting of both diverse and high-performing skills. However, the generation of behavioural repertoires has mainly been limited to simulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Bryan Lim , Alexander Reichenbach , Antoine Cully

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

Multi-Agent Systems have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative reasoning and solving complex tasks. However, the design of collaborative learning algorithms in multi-agent systems faces several challenges, including…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yingfan Deng , Anhao Zhou , Yuan Yuan , Xiao Zhang , Yifei Zou , Dongxiao Yu

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 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