no code implementations • 7 May 2024 • Paul Templier, Luca Grillotti, Emmanuel Rachelson, Dennis G. Wilson, Antoine Cully
Evolution Strategies (ES) are effective gradient-free optimization methods that can be competitive with gradient-based approaches for policy search.
no code implementations • 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.
1 code implementation • 7 Aug 2023 • Felix Chalumeau, Bryan Lim, Raphael Boige, Maxime Allard, Luca Grillotti, Manon Flageat, Valentin Macé, Arthur Flajolet, Thomas Pierrot, Antoine Cully
QDax is an open-source library with a streamlined and modular API for Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization algorithms in Jax.
1 code implementation • 24 Apr 2023 • Manon Flageat, Luca Grillotti, Antoine Cully
In this paper, we propose a first set of benchmark tasks to analyse and estimate the performance of UQD algorithms.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2023 • Luca Grillotti, Manon Flageat, Bryan Lim, Antoine Cully
Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are designed to generate collections of high-performing solutions while maximizing their diversity in a given descriptor space.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2022 • Luca Grillotti, Antoine Cully
We evaluate this approach on a simulated robotic environment, where the robot has to autonomously discover its abilities from its full-state trajectories.
1 code implementation • 4 Nov 2022 • Manon Flageat, Bryan Lim, Luca Grillotti, Maxime Allard, Simón C. Smith, Antoine Cully
We present a Quality-Diversity benchmark suite for Deep Neuroevolution in Reinforcement Learning domains for robot control.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2022 • Luca Grillotti, Antoine Cully
Quality-Diversity algorithms provide efficient mechanisms to generate large collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, which have shown to be instrumental for solving downstream tasks.
2 code implementations • 2 Feb 2022 • Bryan Lim, Maxime Allard, Luca Grillotti, Antoine Cully
With recent advances in simulators that run on accelerators, thousands of evaluations can now be performed in parallel on single GPU/TPU.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2021 • Bryan Lim, Luca Grillotti, Lorenzo Bernasconi, Antoine Cully
In this paper, we propose Dynamics-Aware Quality-Diversity (DA-QD), a framework to improve the sample efficiency of QD algorithms through the use of dynamics models.
1 code implementation • 10 Jun 2021 • Luca Grillotti, Antoine Cully
In robotics, such algorithms can be used for generating a collection of controllers covering most of the possible behaviours of a robot.