Eplex Publications
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2013)
Implications from Music Generation for Music Appreciation
To appear in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-2013, Sydney, Australia).
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2013)
Evolvability is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability Without the Pressure to Adapt
To appear in: PLoS ONE journal. (9 pages).
Gregory Morse, Sebastian Risi, Charles R. Snyder, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2013)
Single-Unit Pattern Generators for Quadruped Locomotion
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013). New York, NY: ACM, 2013 (8 pages).
This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/supg/supgql/.
Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen (2013)
Effective Diversity Maintenance in Deceptive Domains
To Appear In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013). New York, NY: ACM, 2013 (8 pages)
Justin K. Pugh and Kenneth O. Stanley (2013)
Evolving Multimodal Controllers with HyperNEAT
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013). New York, NY: ACM, 2013 (8 pages).
Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2013)
Confronting the Challenge of Learning a Flexible Neural Controller for a Diversity of Morphologies
To appear in: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013). New York, NY:ACM (7 pages).
This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos at http://youtu.be/oLSSt5GyHNk.
Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, David B. D'Ambrosio and Kenneth O. Stanley (2013)
Encouraging Reactivity to Create Robust Machines
To appear in: Adaptive Behavior journal. London: SAGE, 2013 (Maunscript 31 pages).
This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos at http://goo.gl/Qn9nz.
David B. D'Ambrosio and Kenneth O. Stanley (2013)
Scalable Multiagent Learning through Indirect Encoding of Policy Geometry
In: Evolutionary Intelligence Journal. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2013 (Maunscript 30 pages).
This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/demos/multiagentcompared.
The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12065-012-0086-3.
Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, David B. D'Ambrosio, Ryan Hall and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Combining Search-based Procedural Content Generation and Social Gaming in the Petalz Video Game
In: Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE 2012). Menlo Park, CA:AAAI (6 pages).
Brian G. Woolley and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Exploring Promising Stepping Stones by Combining Novelty Search with Interactive Evolution.
In: ArXiv e-prints. E-print no. 1207.6682, submitted July 2012 (15 pages).
Andrea Soltoggio and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
From Modulated Hebbian Plasticity to Simple Behavior Learning through Noise and Weight Saturation
In: Neural Networks journal, Vol. 34, October 2012, pp. 28–41. New York, NY: Elsevier, 2012 (manuscript 17 pages).
Note: Official Elsevier version is at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2012.06.005.
Videos and source code are at http://andrea.soltoggio.net/rec-sat.
David B. D'Ambrosio, Skyler Goodell, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Multirobot Behavior Synchronization through Direct Neural Network Communication
In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA-2012). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2012 (12 pages).
Best Paper Award Finalist at ICIRA 2012
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/demos/hive-brain-patrol.
The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-33515-0_59.
Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
On the Benefits of Divergent Search for Evolved Representations
In: Proceedings of the EvoNet 2012 Workshop at the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XIII). (4 pages).
Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
An Enhanced Hypercube-Based Encoding for Evolving the Placement, Density and Connectivity of Neurons
In: Artificial Life journal. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012 (Manuscript 54 pages)
Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
A Unified Approach to Evolving Plasticity and Neural Geometry
In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2012). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2012 (8 pages).
Winner of the Best Student Paper Award at IJCNN-2012
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Beyond Open-endedness: Quantifying Impressiveness
In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XIII). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012 (8 pages).
Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, David B. D'Ambrosio, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Rewarding Reactivity to Evolve Robust Controllers without Multiple Trials or Noise
In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XIII). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012 (8 pages).
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, Marie E. Norton, Trevor A. Brindle, Zachary Merritt, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2012)
Generating a Complete Multipart Musical Composition from a Single Monophonic Melody with Functional Scaffolding
In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-2012, Dublin, Ireland).
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of musical samples at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/fsmc/iccc2012/.
David B. D'Ambrosio, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Task Switching in Multiagent Learning through Indirect Encoding
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011, San Francisco, CA). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE (8 pages).
Note: This article is accompanied by a demonstration video at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/patrolling.html
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Generating Musical Accompaniment through Functional Scaffolding
In: Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-2011, Padova, Italy).
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of musical samples at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/fsmc/smc2011/.
Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Enhancing ES-HyperNEAT to Evolve More Complex Regular Neural Networks
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)
Nominated for Best Paper Award in Generative and Developmental Systems at GECCO-2011
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Novelty Search and the Problem with Objectives
To appear in: Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IX (GPTP 2011). New York, NY:Springer (20 pages)
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Interactively Evolving Harmonies through Functional Scaffolding
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). New York,NY:ACM (8 pages)
Winner of the Best Paper Award in Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts at GECCO-2011
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of musical samples at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/fsmc/gecco2011/.
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Evolving a Diversity of Virtual Creatures through Novelty Search and Local Competition
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). New York,NY:ACM (8 pages)
Note: This article is accompanied by demonstration videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/ns/vc.html
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Improving Evolvability through Novelty Search and Self-Adaptation
In: Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2011). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE (8 pages)
Phillip Verbancsics and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Constraining Connectivity to Encourage Modularity in HyperNEAT
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)
Brian G. Woolley and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
On the Deleterious Effects of A Priori Objectives on Evolution and Representation
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)
Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Abandoning Objectives: Evolution Through the Search for Novelty Alone
In: Evolutionary Computation journal (19):2, pages 189-223, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011 (39 pages)
Note: This article is accompanied by a demonstration video at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/noveltysearch
Jimmy Secretan, Nicholas Beato, David B. D’Ambrosio, Adelein Rodriguez, Adam Campbell, Jeremiah T. Folsom-Kovarik, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2011)
Picbreeder: A Case Study in Collaborative Evolutionary Exploration of Design Space
In: Evolutionary Computation journal, MIT Press, 2011 (33 pages).
Phillip Verbancsics and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Constraining Connectivity to Encourage Modularity in HyperNEAT
University of Central Florida Dept. of EECS Technical Report CS-TR-10-10 (31 pages).
Please note: This technical report is no longer available because it has been superceded by the conference paper "Constraining Connectivity to Encourage Modularity in HyperNEAT " (above)
Jason Gauci and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Indirect Encoding of Neural Networks for Scalable Go
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN-2010). New York, NY: Springer (10 pages)
Brian G. Woolley and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving a Single Scalable Controller for an Octopus Arm with a Variable Number of Segments
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN-2010). New York, NY: Springer (10 pages)
Note: This article is accompanied by videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/octopusArm.
Phillip Verbancsics and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving Static Representations for Task Transfer
In: Journal of Machine Learning Research 11: pages 1737-1769. Brookline, MA: Microtome
Publishing (33 pages).
Note: This article is accompanied by videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/hyperneat-keepaway.html.
Sebastian Risi, Charles E. Hughes, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving Plastic Neural Networks with Novelty Search
In: Adaptive Behavior journal 18(6), pages 470–491, London: SAGE, 2010. Manuscript 41 pages.
Erin J. Hastings and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Interactive Genetic Engineering of Evolved Video Game Content
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games (PCG) at the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG-2010). New York, NY: ACM (4 pages)
Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Indirectly Encoding Neural Plasticity as a Pattern of Local Rules
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2010). New York, NY: Springer (11 pages)
Joel Lehman, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Efficiently Evolving Programs through the Search for Novelty
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)
Joel Lehman, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Revising the Evolutionary Computation Abstraction: Minimal Criteria Novelty Search
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)
Phillip Verbancsics and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Transfer Learning through Indirect Encoding
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)
Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving the Placement and Density of Neurons in the HyperNEAT Substrate
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010). New York, NY:ACM (8 pages)
Winner of the Best Paper Award in Generative and Developmental Systems at GECCO-2010
David B. D’Ambrosio, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Evolving Policy Geometry for Scalable Multiagent Learning
In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2010). (8 pages)
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/mahnaamas2010.html
Greg Dubbin and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Learning to Dance through Interactive Evolution
In: Proceedings of the Eighth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2010). New York, NY: Springer, 2010 (10 pages)
Note: This paper is accompanied with a set of videos at http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/dance-evolution-videos.html
Jason Gauci and Kenneth O. Stanley (2010)
Autonomous Evolution of Topographic Regularities in Artificial Neural Networks
In: Neural Computation journal 22(7), pages 1860-1898. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010 (Manuscript 38 pages)
Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Automatic Content Generation in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game
In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, volume 1, number 4, pages 245-263, New York: IEEE Press, 2009. (Manuscript 19 pages)
Note: IEEE Official Version available here.
Erin J. Hastings, Ratan Guha, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Evolving Content in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game
In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games(CIG'09). Piscataway, NJ:IEEE (8 pages)
Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games
Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2009)
Demonstrating Automatic Content Generation in the Galactic Arms Race Video Game
In: Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference Demonstration Program (AIIDE’09). Menlo Park, CA:AAAI (2 pages)
Please note: This paper is a short 2-page description of a demonstration that will be given at AIIDE'09. Please see other papers on GAR for complete treatments.
