Fitness and novelty in evolutionary art

A Vinhas, F Assunção, J Correia, A Ekárt… - … and Biologically Inspired …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper the effects of introducing novelty search in evolutionary art are explored. Our
algorithm combines fitness and novelty metrics to frame image evolution as a multi-objective …

Data mining technique with distributed novelty search

H Shahrzad, B Hodjat, R Miikkulainen - US Patent 10,430,709, 2019 - Google Patents
Roughly described, an evolutionary data mining system includes at least two processing
units, each having a pool of candidate individuals in which each candidate individual has a …

Enhanced optimization with composite objectives and novelty selection

H Shahrzad, D Fink, R Miikkulainen - Artificial Life Conference …, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
An important benefit of multi-objective search is that it maintains a diverse population of
candidates, which helps in deceptive problems in particular. Not all diversity is useful …

Enhancing evolutionary optimization in uncertain environments by allocating evaluations via multi-armed bandit algorithms

X Qiu, R Miikkulainen - US Patent 11,574,201, 2023 - Google Patents
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Enhanced optimization with composite objectives and novelty pulsation

H Shahrzad, B Hodjat, C Dollé, A Denissov… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
An important benefit of multi-objective search is that it maintains a diverse population of
candidates, which helps in deceptive problems in particular. Not all diversity is useful …

Method and system for finding a solution to a provided problem by selecting a winner in evolutionary optimization of a genetic algorithm

R Miikkulainen, H Shahrzad, N Duffy… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A method for finding a solution to a problem is provided. The method includes storing
candidate individuals in a candidate pool and evolving the candidate individuals by …

Distributed age-layered novelty search

B Hodjat, H Shahrzad, R Miikkulainen - Artificial Life Conference …, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Novelty search is a powerful biologically motivated method for discovering successful
behaviors especially in deceptive domains, like those in artificial life. This paper extends the …

Art in the sciences of the artificial

KO Stanley - Leonardo, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
This position article argues that the sciences of the artificial (artificial intelligence and
artificial life) have a special relationship to art that is absent from much of science. Just as art …

Insights in evolutionary exploration of robot morphology spaces

K Miras, A Gansekoele, K Glette… - 2018 IEEE Symposium …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a recent study we have encountered an unexpected result regarding the evolutionary
exploration of robot morphology spaces. Specifically, we found that an algorithm driven by …

System and method for implementing modular universal reparameterization for deep multi-task learning across diverse domains

E Meyerson, R Miikkulainen - US Patent 11,669,716, 2023 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A process for training and sharing generic functional modules across
multiple diverse (architecture, task) pairs for solving multiple diverse problems is described …