Kenneth O. Stanley and L. B. Soros (2016)
The Role of Subjectivity in the Evaluation of Open-Endedness (short workshop paper)
In: OEE2: The Second Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution at the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XV). 2016 (3 pages).

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L. B. Soros and Kenneth O. Stanley (2016)
Is Evolution Fundamentally Creative? (short workshop paper)
In: OEE2: The Second Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution at the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XV). 2016 (3 pages).

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Justin K. Pugh, L. B. Soros, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2016)
Quality Diversity: A New Frontier for Evolutionary Computation
In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 3(40). 2016 (17 pages).

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Justin K. Pugh, L. B. Soros, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2016)
Searching for Quality Diversity when Diversity is Unaligned with Quality
In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN-2016). New York, NY: Springer (10 pages).

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Joshua A. Bowren, Justin K. Pugh, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2016)
Fully Autonomous Real-Time Autoencoder-Augmented Hebbian Learning through the Collection of Novel Experiences
In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XV). Cambrige, MA: MIT Press, 2016 (8 pages).

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L. B. Soros, Nick Cheney, and Kenneth O. Stanley (2016)
How the Strictness of the Minimal Criterion Impacts Open-Ended Evolution
In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XV). Cambrige, MA: MIT Press, 2016 (8 pages).

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Gregory Morse and Kenneth O. Stanley (2016)
Simple Evolutionary Optimization Can Rival Stochastic Gradient Descent in Neural Networks
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2016). New York, NY: ACM, 2015 (8 pages).

This paper is accompanied by source code.

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