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cs.NE2025★ 1 cited

Discovering Quality-Diversity Algorithms via Meta-Black-Box Optimization

Maxence Faldor, Robert Tjarko Lange, Antoine Cully

Quality-Diversity has emerged as a powerful family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse populations of high-performing solutions by implementing local competition princ…

cs.NE2025★ 1 cited

Dominated Novelty Search: Rethinking Local Competition in Quality-Diversity

Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Maxence Faldor, Luca Grillotti +4

Quality-Diversity is a family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse, high-performing solutions through local competition principles inspired by natural evolution. While…

cs.NE2025

Scaling Policy Gradient Quality-Diversity with Massive Parallelization via Behavioral Variations

Konstantinos Mitsides, Maxence Faldor, Antoine Cully

Quality-Diversity optimization comprises a family of evolutionary algorithms aimed at generating a collection of diverse and high-performing solutions. MAP-Elites (ME), a notable e…

cs.NE2024

Toward Artificial Open-Ended Evolution within Lenia using Quality-Diversity

Maxence Faldor, Antoine Cully

From the formation of snowflakes to the evolution of diverse life forms, emergence is ubiquitous in our universe. In the quest to understand how complexity can arise from simple ru…

cs.NE2024

Synergizing Quality-Diversity with Descriptor-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Maxence Faldor, Félix Chalumeau, Manon Flageat +1

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 evolutio…

cs.NE2023

MAP-Elites with Descriptor-Conditioned Gradients and Archive Distillation into a Single Policy

Maxence Faldor, Félix Chalumeau, Manon Flageat +1

Quality-Diversity algorithms, such as MAP-Elites, are a branch of Evolutionary Computation generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, that have been successfu…