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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 (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

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

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms evolve behaviourally diverse and high-performing solutions. To illuminate the elite solutions for a space of behaviours, QD algorithms require the definition of a suitable behaviour space. If the behaviour…

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

Quality-Diversity optimization is a new family of optimization algorithms that, instead of searching for a single optimal solution to solving a task, searches for a large collection of solutions that all solve the task in a different way.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-29 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

Differential MAP-Elites is a novel algorithm that combines the illumination capacity of CVT-MAP-Elites with the continuous-space optimization capacity of Differential Evolution. The algorithm is motivated by observations that illumination…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Tae Jong Choi , Julian Togelius

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

Quality-Diversity algorithms refer to a class of evolutionary algorithms designed to find a collection of diverse and high-performing solutions to a given problem. In robotics, such algorithms can be used for generating a collection of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

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 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

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms, and MAP-Elites (ME) in particular, have proven very useful for a broad range of applications including enabling real robots to recover quickly from joint damage, solving strongly deceptive maze tasks or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Cédric Colas , Joost Huizinga , Vashisht Madhavan , Jeff Clune

Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms are a recent family of optimization algorithms that search for a large set of diverse but high-performing solutions. In some specific situations, they can solve multiple tasks at once. For instance, they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jean-Baptiste Mouret , Glenn Maguire

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 (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

A prevalent limitation of optimizing over a single objective is that it can be misguided, becoming trapped in local optimum. This can be rectified by Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms, where a population of high-quality and diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ryan Wickman , Bibek Poudel , Michael Villarreal , Xiaofei Zhang , Weizi Li

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 is a family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse, high-performing solutions through local competition principles inspired by natural evolution. While research has focused on improving specific aspects of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ryan Bahlous-Boldi , Maxence Faldor , Luca Grillotti , Hannah Janmohamed , Lisa Coiffard , Lee Spector , Antoine Cully

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 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
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