Publications

2026

  1. The Agentic Scientist: Orchestrating Coding Agents for Automated Scientific (Co-)Discovery
    Robert Tjarko Lange*, Luca Grillotti*, Yutaro Yamada*, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.18933, 2026
  2. Diffusing Blame: Task-Dependent Credit Assignment in Biologically Plausible Dual-Stream Networks
    Yutaro Yamada, Luca Grillotti, Rujikorn Charakorn, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference (ALIFE), 2026
  3. Restart of the JEDi: Dynamic Quality with Just Enough Diversity
    Paul Templier, Luca Grillotti, Emmanuel Rachelson, and 2 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, 2026

2025

  1. From Tabula Rasa to Emergent Abilities: Discovering Robot Skills via Real-World Unsupervised Quality-Diversity
    Luca Grillotti, Lisa Coiffard, Oscar Pang, and 2 more authors
    In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
  2. Dominated Novelty Search: Rethinking Local Competition in Quality-Diversity
    Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Maxence Faldor, Luca Grillotti, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2025

2024

  1. JMLR
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    QDax: A library for quality-diversity and population-based algorithms with hardware acceleration
    Felix Chalumeau, Bryan Lim, Raphael Boige, and 8 more authors
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024
  2. Quality with Just Enough Diversity in Evolutionary Policy Search
    Paul Templier, Luca Grillotti, Emmanuel Rachelson, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2024
  3. Quality-Diversity Actor-Critic: Learning High-Performing and Diverse Behaviors via Value and Successor Features Critics
    Luca Grillotti*, Maxence Faldor*, Borja González León, and 1 more author
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

2023

  1. Accelerated Quality-Diversity through Massive Parallelism
    Bryan Lim, Maxime Allard, Luca Grillotti, and 1 more author
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
  2. Don’t Bet on Luck Alone: Enhancing Behavioral Reproducibility of Quality-Diversity Solutions in Uncertain Domains
    Luca Grillotti*, Manon Flageat*, Bryan Lim, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2023
  3. Benchmark Tasks for Quality-Diversity Applied to Uncertain Domains
    Manon Flageat, Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    In GECCO Workshop on Benchmarks for Quality-Diversity algorithms, 2023
  4. Kheperax: a Lightweight JAX-based Robot Control Environment for Benchmarking Quality-Diversity Algorithms
    Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    In GECCO Workshop on Quality Diversity Algorithm Benchmarks, 2023

2022

  1. IEEE TEVC
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    Unsupervised Behavior Discovery With Quality-Diversity Optimization
    Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2022
  2. Relevance-guided Unsupervised Discovery of Abilities with Quality-Diversity Algorithms
    Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2022
  3. Dynamics-aware quality-diversity for efficient learning of skill repertoires
    Bryan Lim, Luca Grillotti, Lorenzo Bernasconi, and 1 more author
    In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
  4. Accelerated Quality-Diversity for Robotics through Massive Parallelism
    Bryan Lim, Maxime Allard, Luca Grillotti, and 1 more author
    In ICLR Workshop on Agent Learning in Open-Endedness, 2022
  5. Discovering Unsupervised Behaviours from Full State Trajectories
    Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    In ICLR Workshop on Agent Learning in Open-Endedness, 2022
  6. Benchmarking Quality-Diversity Algorithms on Neuroevolution for Reinforcement Learning
    Manon Flageat, Bryan Lim, Luca Grillotti, and 3 more authors
    In GECCO Workshop on Benchmarks for Quality-Diversity algorithms, 2022
  7. QDax: on the benefits of massive parallelization for quality-diversity
    Bryan Lim, Maxime Allard, Luca Grillotti, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2022