no code implementations • 4 Feb 2025 • 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 principles inspired by biological evolution.
1 code implementation • 1 Feb 2025 • Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Maxence Faldor, Luca Grillotti, Hannah Janmohamed, Lisa Coiffard, Lee Spector, Antoine Cully
Quality-Diversity is a family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse, high-performing solutions through local competition principles inspired by natural evolution.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2025 • Konstantinos Mitsides, Maxence Faldor, Antoine Cully
While successful at scaling ME for neuroevolution, these methods often suffer from slow training speeds, or difficulties in scaling with massive parallelization due to high computational demands or reliance on centralized actor-critic training.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2024 • Hannah Janmohamed, Maxence Faldor, Thomas Pierrot, Antoine Cully
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.
1 code implementation • 3 Oct 2024 • Maxence Faldor, Antoine Cully
Cellular automata have become a cornerstone for investigating emergence and self-organization across diverse scientific disciplines, spanning neuroscience, artificial life, and theoretical physics.
no code implementations • 6 Jun 2024 • Maxence Faldor, Antoine Cully
Combined with Lenia, a family of continuous cellular automata, we demonstrate that our method is able to evolve a diverse population of lifelike self-organizing autonomous patterns.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2024 • Maxence Faldor, Jenny Zhang, Antoine Cully, Jeff Clune
Overall, OMNI-EPIC can endlessly create learnable and interesting environments, further propelling the development of self-improving AI systems and AI-Generating Algorithms.
1 code implementation • 15 Mar 2024 • Luca Grillotti, Maxence Faldor, Borja G. León, Antoine Cully
A key aspect of intelligence is the ability to demonstrate a broad spectrum of behaviors for adapting to unexpected situations.
2 code implementations • 10 Dec 2023 • Maxence Faldor, Félix Chalumeau, Manon Flageat, Antoine Cully
In this work, we introduce DCRL-MAP-Elites, an extension of DCG-MAP-Elites that utilizes the descriptor-conditioned actor as a generative model to produce diverse solutions, which are then injected into the offspring batch at each generation.
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2023 • Maxence Faldor, Félix Chalumeau, Manon Flageat, Antoine Cully
Quality-Diversity algorithms, such as MAP-Elites, are a branch of Evolutionary Computation generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, that have been successfully applied to a variety of domains and particularly in evolutionary robotics.