Search Results for author: Maxence Faldor

Found 10 papers, 6 papers with code

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

no code implementations4 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.

Diversity Evolutionary Algorithms +1

Dominated Novelty Search: Rethinking Local Competition in Quality-Diversity

1 code implementation1 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.

Diversity Evolutionary Algorithms

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

no code implementations30 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.

Diversity Evolutionary Algorithms

Preference-Conditioned Gradient Variations for Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity

no code implementations19 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.

Diversity

CAX: Cellular Automata Accelerated in JAX

1 code implementation3 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.

ARC Artificial Life

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

no code implementations6 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.

Diversity Evolutionary Algorithms

OMNI-EPIC: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness with Environments Programmed in Code

1 code implementation24 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.

Synergizing Quality-Diversity with Descriptor-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

2 code implementations10 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.

Continuous Control Diversity +3

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

1 code implementation7 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.

Deep Reinforcement Learning

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