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most citedFew-shot Quality-Diversity Optimization

11 citations · 21 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.RO2025

Reinforcement Learning for Ballbot Navigation in Uneven Terrain

Achkan Salehi

Ballbot (i.e. Ball balancing robot) navigation usually relies on methods rooted in control theory (CT), and works that apply Reinforcement learning (RL) to the problem remain rare…

cs.LG2023

Integrating LLMs and Decision Transformers for Language Grounded Generative Quality-Diversity

Achkan Salehi, Stephane Doncieux

Quality-Diversity is a branch of stochastic optimization that is often applied to problems from the Reinforcement Learning and control domains in order to construct repertoires of…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Data-efficient, Explainable and Safe Box Manipulation: Illustrating the Advantages of Physical Priors in Model-Predictive Control

Achkan Salehi, Stephane Doncieux

Model-based RL/control have gained significant traction in robotics. Yet, these approaches often remain data-inefficient and lack the explainability of hand-engineered solutions. T…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Adaptive Asynchronous Control Using Meta-learned Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Achkan Salehi, Steffen Rühl, Stephane Doncieux

Model-based Reinforcement Learning and Control have demonstrated great potential in various sequential decision making problem domains, including in robotics settings. However, rea…

cs.LG2022

Towards QD-suite: developing a set of benchmarks for Quality-Diversity algorithms

Achkan Salehi, Stephane Doncieux

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…

cs.LG2022

Geodesics, Non-linearities and the Archive of Novelty Search

Achkan Salehi, Alexandre Coninx, Stephane Doncieux

The Novelty Search (NS) algorithm was proposed more than a decade ago. However, the mechanisms behind its empirical success are still not well formalized/understood. This short not…