On Diversity, Teaming, and Hierarchical Policies: Observations from the Keepaway Soccer Task

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@InProceedings{kelly:2014:EuroGP,

• author = "Stephen Kelly and Malcolm I. Heywood",
• title = "On Diversity, Teaming, and Hierarchical Policies: Observations from the Keepaway Soccer Task",
• booktitle = "17th European Conference on Genetic Programming",
• year = "2014",
• editor = "Miguel Nicolau and Krzysztof Krawiec and Malcolm I. Heywood and Mauro Castelli and Pablo Garcia-Sanchez and Juan J. Merelo and Victor M. {Rivas Santos} and Kevin Sim",
• series = "LNCS",
• volume = "8599",
• publisher = "Springer",
• pages = "75--86",
• address = "Granada, Spain",
• month = "23-25 " # apr,
• organisation = "EvoStar",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
• isbn13 = "978-3-662-44302-6",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44303-3_7",
• abstract = "The 3-versus-2 Keepaway soccer task represents a widely used benchmark appropriate for evaluating approaches to reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and evolutionary robotics. To date most research on this task has been described in terms of developments to reinforcement learning with function approximation or frameworks for neuro-evolution. This work performs an initial study using a recently proposed algorithm for evolving teams of programs hierarchically using two phases of evolution: one to build a library of candidate meta policies and a second to learn how to deploy the library consistently. Particular attention is paid to diversity maintenance, where this has been demonstrated as a critical component in neuro-evolutionary approaches. A new formulation is proposed for fitness sharing appropriate to the Keepaway task. The resulting policies are observed to benefit from the use of diversity and perform significantly better than previously reported. Moreover, champion individuals evolved and selected under one field size generalise to multiple field sizes without any additional training.",
• notes = "Part of \cite{Nicolau:2014:GP} EuroGP'2014 held in conjunction with EvoCOP2014, EvoBIO2014, EvoMusArt2014 and EvoApplications2014",

}

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