another phd collab thing, on European Research Council grant https://www.resibots.eu/videos.html 2015-2020. Nice. They’re the ones who developed MAP-elites https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04909
They https://members.loria.fr/JBMouret/nature_press.html had a paper published in Nature, for their bots that fix themselves.
MAP-Elites is interesting. It categorises behaviours and tests local optima, of some sort variables. Haven’t read the paper yet. It is windy.
“It creates a map of high-performing solutions at each point in a space defined by dimensions of variation that a user gets to choose. This Multi-dimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites (MAP-Elites) algorithm illuminates search spaces, allowing researchers to understand how interesting attributes of solutions combine to affect performance, either positively or, equally of interest, negatively. “