Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution
Conference Proceeding
Marrero, A., Segredo, E., León, C., & Hart, E. (in press)
Learning Descriptors for Novelty-Search Based Instance Generation via Meta-evolution. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’24), July 14–18, 2024, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. https://doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654028
The ability to generate example instances from a domain is important in order to benchmark algorithms and to generate data that covers an instance-space in order to train mach...
A Hierarchical Approach to Evolving Behaviour-Trees for Swarm Control
Conference Proceeding
Montague, K., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2024)
A Hierarchical Approach to Evolving Behaviour-Trees for Swarm Control. In S. Smith, J. Correia, & C. Cintrano (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 27th European Conference, EvoApplications 2024, Held as Part of EvoStar 2024, Aberystwyth, UK, April 3–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (178-193). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56852-7_12
Behaviour trees (BTs) are commonly used as controllers in robotic swarms due their modular composition and to the fact that they can be easily interpreted by humans. From an a...
On the Utility of Probing Trajectories for Algorithm-Selection
Conference Proceeding
Renau, Q., & Hart, E. (2024)
On the Utility of Probing Trajectories for Algorithm-Selection. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation. EvoApplications 2024 (98-114). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56852-7_7
Machine-learning approaches to algorithm-selection typically take data describing an instance as input. Input data can take the form of features derived from the instance desc...
Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search
Journal Article
Arza, E., Le Goff, L. K., & Hart, E. (in press)
Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1145/3653024
Lengthy evaluation times are common in many optimization problems such as direct policy search tasks, especially when they involve conducting evaluations in the physical world...
Synthesising Diverse and Discriminatory Sets of Instances using Novelty Search in Combinatorial Domains
Journal Article
Marrero, A., Segredo, E., Leon, C., & Hart, E. (in press)
Synthesising Diverse and Discriminatory Sets of Instances using Novelty Search in Combinatorial Domains. Evolutionary Computation,
Gathering sufficient instance data to either train algorithm-selection models or understand algorithm footprints within an instance space can be challenging. We propose an app...
How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction
Conference Proceeding
Orme, M., Yu, Y., & Tan, Z. (in press)
How Much do Robots Understand Rudeness? Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction.
This paper concerns the pressing need to understand and manage inappropriate language within the evolving human-robot interaction (HRI) landscape. As intelligent systems and r...
Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?
Conference Proceeding
Tahir, A., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. (2024)
Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?. In Big Data Technologies and Applications (18-32). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52265-9_2
Federated Learning (FL) is a method to train machine learning (ML) models in a decentralised manner, while preserving the privacy of data from multiple clients. However, FL is...
Evolving Behavior Allocations in Robot Swarms
Conference Proceeding
Hallauer, S., Nitschke, G., & Hart, E. (2024)
Evolving Behavior Allocations in Robot Swarms. In 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (1526-1531). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI52147.2023.10371934
Behavioral diversity is known to benefit problem-solving in biological social systems such as insect colonies and human societies, as well as in artificial distributed systems...
Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces
Journal Article
Li, W., Buchanan, E., Goff, L. K. L., Hart, E., Hale, M. F., Wei, B., …Tyrrell, A. M. (in press)
Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2023.3316363
Jointly optimising both the body and brain of a robot is known to be a challenging task, especially when attempting to evolve designs in simulation that will subsequently be b...
Robotics and Autonomous Systems for Environmental Sustainability: Monitoring Terrestrial Biodiversity
Working Paper
Pringle, S., Davies, Z. G., Goddard, M. A., Dallimer, M., Hart, E., Le Goff, L., & Langdale, S. J. (2023)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems for Environmental Sustainability: Monitoring Terrestrial Biodiversity
Welcome to the UK-RAS White paper Series on Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). This is one of the core activities of UK-RAS Network, funded by the Engineering and Physical...