Curiosity Search: Producing Generalists by Encouraging Individuals to Continually Explore and Acquire Skills throughout Their Lifetime
Fig 7
Curiosity Search produces individuals with greater exploratory skills than Novelty Search, but the populations of all treatments explore the entire maze.
Results show the Cross Maze only (data from other mazes shown in S2 Fig). (a) Both curiosity treatments significantly outperform TE and NST over evolutionary time. CNT produces individuals that explore more than either algorithm alone, suggesting that Curiosity Search may be a good helper objective for producing generalists. (b) The population of every treatment, even those that produce specialists (such as TE), can explore the entire maze, revealing that population diversity alone is not sufficient to encourage generalists.