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20232025
most citedQuality Diversity through Human Feedback: Towards Open-Ended Diversity-Driven Optimization

5 citations · 7 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

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.NE2024

Effective Adaptive Mutation Rates for Program Synthesis

Andrew Ni, Lee Spector

The problem-solving performance of many evolutionary algorithms, including genetic programming systems used for program synthesis, depends on the values of hyperparameters includin…

cs.LG2024

Pareto-Optimal Learning from Preferences with Hidden Context

Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Li Ding, Lee Spector +1

Ensuring AI models align with human values is essential for their safety and functionality. Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) leverages human preferences to achieve…

cs.NE2024

Leveraging Symbolic Regression for Heuristic Design in the Traveling Thief Problem

Andrew Ni, Lee Spector

The Traveling Thief Problem is an NP-hard combination of the well known traveling salesman and knapsack packing problems. In this paper, we use symbolic regression to learn useful…

cs.NE2024

DALex: Lexicase-like Selection via Diverse Aggregation

Andrew Ni, Li Ding, Lee Spector

Lexicase selection has been shown to provide advantages over other selection algorithms in several areas of evolutionary computation and machine learning. In its standard form, lex…

cs.NE2023★ 1 cited

Objectives Are All You Need: Solving Deceptive Problems Without Explicit Diversity Maintenance

Ryan Boldi, Li Ding, Lee Spector

Navigating deceptive domains has often been a challenge in machine learning due to search algorithms getting stuck at sub-optimal local optima. Many algorithms have been proposed t…

cs.AI2023★ 5 cited

Quality Diversity through Human Feedback: Towards Open-Ended Diversity-Driven Optimization

Li Ding, Jenny Zhang, Jeff Clune +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has shown potential in qualitative tasks where easily defined performance measures are lacking. However, there are drawbacks when…