Bayesian Optimisation for Quality Diversity Search With Coupled Descriptor Functions
Abstract
Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms such as the Multi-Dimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites (MAP-Elites) are a class of optimisation techniques that attempt to find many high performing points that all behave differently according to a user-defined behavioural metric.
In this paper we propose the Bayesian Optimisation of Elites (BOP-Elites) algorithm. Designed for problems with expensive coupled fitness and behaviour functions, it is able to return a QD solution-set with excellent performance already after a relatively small number of samples. BOP-Elites models both fitness and behavioural descriptors with Gaussian Process surrogate models and uses Bayesian Optimisation strategies for choosing points to evaluate in order to solve the quality-diversity problem.
In addition, BOP-Elites produces high quality surrogate models which can be used after convergence to predict solutions with any behaviour in a continuous range.
An empirical comparison shows that BOP-Elites significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms without the need for problem-specific parameter tuning.
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