Reinforcement learning-assisted evolutionary algorithm: A survey and research opportunities

Y Song, Y Wu, Y Guo, R Yan, PN Suganthan… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Evolutionary algorithms (EA), a class of stochastic search methods based on the principles
of natural evolution, have received widespread acclaim for their exceptional performance in …

Quality-diversity algorithms can provably be helpful for optimization

C Qian, K Xue, RJ Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10539, 2024 - arxiv.org
Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are a new type of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), aiming to
find a set of high-performing, yet diverse solutions. They have found many successful …

Value-Evolutionary-Based Reinforcement Learning

P Li, HAO Jianye, H Tang, Y Zheng… - Forty-first International …, 2023 - openreview.net
Combining Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for policy
search has been proven to improve RL performance. However, previous works largely …

Agent Skill Acquisition for Large Language Models via CycleQD

S Kuroki, T Nakamura, T Akiba, Y Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14735, 2024 - arxiv.org
Training large language models to acquire specific skills remains a challenging endeavor.
Conventional training approaches often struggle with data distribution imbalances and …

Quality-Diversity Actor-Critic: Learning High-Performing and Diverse Behaviors via Value and Successor Features Critics

L Grillotti, M Faldor, BG León, A Cully - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09930, 2024 - arxiv.org
A key aspect of intelligence is the ability to demonstrate a broad spectrum of behaviors for
adapting to unexpected situations. Over the past decade, advancements in deep …

Quality-Diversity with Limited Resources

RJ Wang, K Xue, C Guan, C Qian - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.03731, 2024 - arxiv.org
Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms have emerged as a powerful optimization paradigm with
the aim of generating a set of high-quality and diverse solutions. To achieve such a …

EvoRainbow: Combining Improvements in Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Policy Search

P Li, Y Zheng, H Tang, X Fu, HAO Jianye - Forty-first International … - openreview.net
Both Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have demonstrated
powerful capabilities in policy search with different principles. A promising direction is to …

Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Annealing: Theory and Experiments

S Zhao, B Tjanaka, MC Fontaine, S Nikolaidis - ACM Transactions on … - dl.acm.org
Single-objective optimization algorithms search for the single highest-quality solution with
respect to an objective. Quality diversity (QD) optimization algorithms, such as Covariance …