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A Neural Approach to Generation of Constructive Heuristics (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alissa, M., Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2021, June). A Neural Approach to Generation of Constructive Heuristics. Presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2021, Kraków, Poland (online)

Both algorithm-selection methods and hyper-heuristic methods rely on a pool of complementary heuristics. Improving the pool with new heuristics can improve performance, however, designing new heuristics can be challenging. Methods such as genetic pro... Read More about A Neural Approach to Generation of Constructive Heuristics.

On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Goff, L. K. L., & Hart, E. (2021, July). On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme. Presented at GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lille, France

We investigate a hierarchical scheme for the joint optimisation of robot bodies and controllers in a complex morphological space. An evolutionary algorithm optimises body-plans while a separate learning algorithm is applied to each body generated to... Read More about On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme.

Using novelty search to explicitly create diversity in ensembles of classifiers (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cardoso, R. P., Hart, E., Kurka, D. B., & Pitt, J. V. (2021, July). Using novelty search to explicitly create diversity in ensembles of classifiers. Presented at GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lille, France [Online]

The diversity between individual learners in an ensemble is known to influence its performance. However, there is no standard agreement on how diversity should be defined, and thus how to exploit it to construct a high-performing classifier. We propo... Read More about Using novelty search to explicitly create diversity in ensembles of classifiers.

Automated, Explainable Rule Extraction from MAP-Elites archives (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N., Höhl, S., & Hart, E. (2021, April). Automated, Explainable Rule Extraction from MAP-Elites archives. Presented at EvoAPPs2021, Online

Quality-diversity(QD) algorithms that return a large archive of elite solutions to a problem provide insights into how high-performing solutions are distributed throughout a feature-space defined by a user — they are often described as illuminating t... Read More about Automated, Explainable Rule Extraction from MAP-Elites archives.

WILDA: Wide Learning of Diverse Architectures for Classification of Large Datasets (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pitt, J., Burth Kurka, D., Hart, E., & Cardoso, R. P. (2021, April). WILDA: Wide Learning of Diverse Architectures for Classification of Large Datasets. Presented at 24th European Conference, EvoApplications 2021, Online

In order to address scalability issues, which can be a challenge for Deep Learning methods, we propose Wide Learning of Diverse Architectures-a model that scales horizontally rather than vertically, enabling distributed learning. We propose a distrib... Read More about WILDA: Wide Learning of Diverse Architectures for Classification of Large Datasets.