Quality-Diversity is a branch of stochastic optimization that is often
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Machine Learning methods, such as those from the Reinforcement Learning ...
This paper studies the impact of the initial data gathering method on th...
Robotics grasping refers to the task of making a robotic system pick an
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Model-based Reinforcement Learning and Control have demonstrated great
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Grasping a particular object may require a dedicated grasping movement t...
While the field of Quality-Diversity (QD) has grown into a distinct bran...
The Novelty Search (NS) algorithm was proposed more than a decade ago.
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Learning optimal policies in sparse rewards settings is difficult as the...
Not having access to compact and meaningful representations is known to
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In the past few years, a considerable amount of research has been dedica...
Reinforcement learning agents need a reward signal to learn successful
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As open-ended learning based on divergent search algorithms such as Nove...
Reward-based optimization algorithms require both exploration, to find
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Evolvability is an important feature that impacts the ability of evoluti...
Robots are still limited to controlled conditions, that the robot design...
In a context where several policies can be observed as black boxes on
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Robots need to understand their environment to perform their task. If it...
To solve its task, a robot needs to have the ability to interpret its
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Programming a robot to deal with open-ended tasks remains a challenge, i...
Learning algorithms are enabling robots to solve increasingly challengin...
Computational models are of increasing complexity and their behavior may...