Jean-Baptiste Mouret

French roboticist and computer scientist at Inria, co-creator (with Jeff Clune) of MAP-Elites — Multi-dimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites (Mouret & Clune, 2015), an illuminating-search algorithm that maps out a whole archive of behaviorally diverse, locally high-performing solutions rather than converging on one optimum.

Matters to this vault as the co-originator of the quality-diversity method Microcosmos's Experiment 4 runs unmodified — using bending and stretching effort as behavioral descriptors to search for diverse swimming gaits, and reaching 399 of 400 archive cells by generation 300.

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