---
title: "Jean-Baptiste Mouret"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Jean-Baptiste Mouret"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-20T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["MAP-Elites","quality diversity","Jeff Clune","evolutionary robotics","Microcosmos (artificial-life engine)"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


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.

## References
- [[claim-microcosmos-four-experiments-handdesigned-to-emergent]]
- Captures: 2026-08-20-do-microcosmoss-scaling-benchmark-linear-to-500k-particles