On Evolvability and Behavior Landscapes in Neuroevolutionary Divergent Search

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09849v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:46:55 GMT
• Title: On Evolvability and Behavior Landscapes in Neuroevolutionary Divergent Search
• Authors: Bruno Ga\v{s}perov, Marko {\DJ}urasevi\'c
• Abstract summary: Evolvability refers to the ability of an individual genotype to produce offspring with mutually diverse phenotypes. Recent research has demonstrated that divergent search methods promote evolvability by implicitly creating selective pressure for it. This paper provides a novel perspective on the relationship between neuroevolutionary divergent search and evolvability.
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• Abstract: Evolvability refers to the ability of an individual genotype (solution) to produce offspring with mutually diverse phenotypes. Recent research has demonstrated that divergent search methods, particularly novelty search, promote evolvability by implicitly creating selective pressure for it. The main objective of this paper is to provide a novel perspective on the relationship between neuroevolutionary divergent search and evolvability. In order to achieve this, several types of walks from the literature on fitness landscape analysis are first adapted to this context. Subsequently, the interplay between neuroevolutionary divergent search and evolvability under varying amounts of evolutionary pressure and under different diversity metrics is investigated. To this end, experiments are performed on Fetch Pick and Place, a robotic arm task. Moreover, the performed study in particular sheds light on the structure of the genotype-phenotype mapping (the behavior landscape). Finally, a novel definition of evolvability that takes into account the evolvability of offspring and is appropriate for use with discretized behavior spaces is proposed, together with a Markov-chain-based estimation method for it.

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