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The construction of computer models (mathematical models implemented in computer codes), with respect to observed phenomena, is usually undertaken by building different variants depending on modeller sensibility, and choosing the one…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-28 Filippo Monari

The design of next-generation alloys through the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) approach relies on multi-scale computer simulations to provide thermodynamic properties when experiments are difficult to conduct.…

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

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

Design space exploration (DSE) plays an important role in optimising quantum circuit execution by systematically evaluating different configurations of compilation strategies and hardware settings. In this work, we study the impact of…

Quality-Diversity algorithms are powerful tools for discovering diverse, high-performing solutions. Recently, Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity (MOQD) extends QD to problems with several objectives while preserving solution diversity. MOQD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hannah Janmohamed , Antoine Cully

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

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

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

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

The automatic generation of high-quality mathematical problems is practically valuable in many educational scenarios. Large multimodal model provides a novel technical approach for the mathematical problem generation because of its wide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Sannyuya Liu , Jintian Feng , Zongkai Yang , Yawei Luo , Qian Wan , Xiaoxuan Shen , Jianwen Sun

Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms such as MAP-Elites are a class of optimisation techniques that attempt to find many high performing points that all behave differently according to a user-defined behavioural metric. In this paper we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Paul Kent , Adam Gaier , Jean-Baptiste Mouret , Juergen Branke

Quality-Diversity algorithms provide efficient mechanisms to generate large collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, which have shown to be instrumental for solving downstream tasks. However, most of those algorithms rely on a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

Quality-Diversity algorithms search for large collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, rather than just for a single solution like typical optimisation methods. They are specially adapted for multi-modal problems that can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Leo Cazenille

We develop a set of algorithms to solve a broad class of Design of Experiment (DoE) problems efficiently. Specifically, we consider problems in which one must choose a subset of polymers to test in experiments such that the learning of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-06 Swagatam Mukhopadhyay

In modular robotics, modules can be reconfigured to change the morphology of the robot, making it able to adapt for specific tasks. However, optimizing both the body and control is a difficult challenge due to the intricate relationship…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jørgen Nordmoen , Frank Veenstra , Kai Olav Ellefsen , Kyrre Glette

While multi-joint continuum robots are highly dexterous and flexible, designing an optimal robot can be challenging due to its kinematics involving curvatures. Hence, the current work presents a computational method developed to find…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hyunmin Cheong , Mehran Ebrahimi , Timothy Duggan

The representation, or encoding, utilized in evolutionary algorithms has a substantial effect on their performance. Examination of the suitability of widely used representations for quality diversity optimization (QD) in robotic domains has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ludovico Scarton , Alexander Hagg

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have recently gained traction as optimisation methods due to their effectiveness at escaping local optima and capability of generating wide-ranging and high-performing solutions. Recently, Multi-Objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Hannah Janmohamed , Thomas Pierrot , Antoine Cully

Experiments with both qualitative and quantitative factors occur frequently in practical applications. Many construction methods for this kind of designs, such as marginally coupled designs, were proposed to pursue some good space-filling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Mei Zhang , Feng Yang , Yongdao Zhou