A review of neural architecture search

D Baymurzina, E Golikov, M Burtsev - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the impressive progress in neural network architecture design, improving the
performance of the existing state-of-the-art models has become increasingly challenging …

Evolutionary reinforcement learning: A survey

H Bai, R Cheng, Y Jin - Intelligent Computing, 2023 - spj.science.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning approach that trains agents to maximize
cumulative rewards through interactions with environments. The integration of RL with deep …

Simulation intelligence: Towards a new generation of scientific methods

A Lavin, D Krakauer, H Zenil, J Gottschlich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The original" Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific
computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation …

Autotelic agents with intrinsically motivated goal-conditioned reinforcement learning: a short survey

C Colas, T Karch, O Sigaud, PY Oudeyer - Journal of Artificial Intelligence …, 2022 - jair.org
Building autonomous machines that can explore open-ended environments, discover
possible interactions and build repertoires of skills is a general objective of artificial …

Differentiable quality diversity

M Fontaine, S Nikolaidis - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Quality diversity (QD) is a growing branch of stochastic optimization research that studies the
problem of generating an archive of solutions that maximize a given objective function but …

Policy gradient assisted map-elites

O Nilsson, A Cully - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Quality-Diversity optimization algorithms such as MAP-Elites, aim to generate collections of
both diverse and high-performing solutions to an optimization problem. MAP-Elites has …

pyribs: A bare-bones python library for quality diversity optimization

B Tjanaka, MC Fontaine, DH Lee, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity of quality diversity (QD) optimization, a
branch of optimization that seeks to find a collection of diverse, high-performing solutions to …

Deep surrogate assisted generation of environments

V Bhatt, B Tjanaka, M Fontaine… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent progress in reinforcement learning (RL) has started producing generally capable
agents that can solve a distribution of complex environments. These agents are typically …

QDax: A library for quality-diversity and population-based algorithms with hardware acceleration

F Chalumeau, B Lim, R Boige, M Allard… - Journal of Machine …, 2024 - jmlr.org
QDax is an open-source library with a streamlined and modular API for Quality-Diversity
(QD) optimisation algorithms in Jax. The library serves as a versatile tool for optimisation …

Approximating gradients for differentiable quality diversity in reinforcement learning

B Tjanaka, MC Fontaine, J Togelius… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Consider the problem of training robustly capable agents. One approach is to generate a
diverse collection of agent polices. Training can then be viewed as a quality diversity (QD) …