Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Functional Scaffolding for Composing Additional Musical Voices
In: Computer Music Journal. Cambridge, Massachusetts, US: MIT Press, 38:4, 80-99, Winter 2014 (19 pages).

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Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Investigating Biological Assumptions through Radical Reimplementation
To appear in: Artificial Life journal, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014 (35 pages)

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Paul Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Steps Toward a Modular Library for Turning Any Evolutionary Domain into an Online Interactive Platform
In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XIV). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014 (8 pages).

This paper is accompanied by a new online community: http://WINArk.org

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Paul A. Szerlip, Gregory Morse, Justin K. Pugh, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Unsupervised Feature Learning through Divergent Discriminative Feature Accumulation
In: ArXiv e-prints. E-print no. 1406.1833, submitted June 2014 (9 pages).

Note:  This arxiv paper is now superseded by the AAAI publication by the same name (above).

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L. B. Soros and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Identifying Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution through the Artificial Life World of Chromaria
In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 14). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014 (8 pages).

Winner of the Best Poster Award at ALIFE 14

This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos and source code here.

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Justin K. Pugh, Andrea Soltoggio, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Real-time Hebbian Learning from Autoencoder Features for Control Tasks
In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XIV). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014 (8 pages).

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Brian G. Woolley and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
A Novel Human-Computer Collaboration: Combining Novelty Search with Interactive Evolution
In:Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference(GECCO-2014). New York, NY: ACM (8 pages).

Winner of the Best Paper Award in Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware at GECCO-2014

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Justin K. Pugh, Skyler Goodell, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Directional Communication in Evolved Multiagent Teams
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2014). New York, NY: ACM, 2014 (8 pages).

This paper is accompanied with a set of video demos at http://tinyurl.com/DirComVideo.

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Sebastian Risi and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Guided Self-Organization in Indirectly Encoded and Evolving Topographic Maps
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014). New York, NY: ACM (8 pages).

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Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, David B. D'Ambrosio, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Automatically Categorizing Procedurally Generated Content for Collecting Games
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games (PCG) at the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG-2014). New York, NY: ACM (7 pages).

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Gregory Morse, L.B. Soros, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2014)
Additional Stability for Single-Unit Pattern Generators
In: Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Robotics at the 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014). New York, NY: Springer (2 pages).

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