| 2024 | ICLR | Quality-Diversity through AI Feedback. | Herbie Bradley, Andrew Dai, Hannah Benita Teufel, Jenny Zhang, Koen Oostermeijer, Marco Bellagente, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley, Grgory Schott, Joel Lehman |
| 2024 | ICLR | OMNI: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness. | Jenny Zhang, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeff Clune |
| 2021 | AAAI | Deep Innovation Protection: Confronting the Credit Assignment Problem in Training Heterogeneous Neural Architectures. | Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2021 | IJCNN | Towards Consistent Predictive Confidence through Fitted Ensembles. | Navid Kardan, Ankit Sharma, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2020 | ECAI | Learning to Continually Learn. | Shawn Beaulieu, Lapo Frati, Thomas Miconi, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeff Clune, Nick Cheney |
| 2020 | GECCO | Diversity preservation in minimal criterion coevolution through resource limitation. | Jonathan C. Brant, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2020 | ICML | Enhanced POET: Open-ended Reinforcement Learning through Unbounded Invention of Learning Challenges and their Solutions. | Rui Wang, Joel Lehman, Aditya Rawal, Jiale Zhi, Yulun Li, Jeffrey Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2020 | ICML | Generative Teaching Networks: Accelerating Neural Architecture Search by Learning to Generate Synthetic Training Data. | Felipe Petroski Such, Aditya Rawal, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeffrey Clune |
| 2019 | GECCO | Benchmarking open-endedness in minimal criterion coevolution. | Jonathan C. Brant, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2019 | GECCO | Evolvability ES: scalable and direct optimization of evolvability. | Alexander Gajewski, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman |
| 2019 | GECCO | Deep neuroevolution of recurrent and discrete world models. | Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2019 | GECCO | POET: open-ended coevolution of environments and their optimized solutions. | Rui Wang, Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2019 | ICLR | Backpropamine: training self-modifying neural networks with differentiable neuromodulated plasticity. | Thomas Miconi, Aditya Rawal, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2018 | GECCO | Safe mutations for deep and recurrent neural networks through output gradients. | Joel Lehman, Jay Chen, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2018 | GECCO | ES is more than just a traditional finite-difference approximator. | Joel Lehman, Jay Chen, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2018 | GECCO | VINE: an open source interactive data visualization tool for neuroevolution. | Rui Wang, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2018 | ICML | Differentiable plasticity: training plastic neural networks with backpropagation. | Thomas Miconi, Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeff Clune |
| 2017 | GECCO | Minimal criterion coevolution: a new approach to open-ended search. | Jonathan C. Brant, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2017 | GECCO | Voxelbuild: a minecraft-inspired domain for experiments in evolutionary creativity. | Lisa B. Soros, Justin K. Pugh, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2017 | GECCO | Generative and developmental systems tutorial. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2017 | IJCNN | Mitigating fooling with competitive overcomplete output layer neural networks. | Navid Kardan, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2016 | ALIFE | How the Strictness of the Minimal Criterion Impacts Open-Ended Evolution. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Nick Cheney, Lisa B. Soros |
| 2016 | ALIFE | Fully Autonomous Real-Time Autoencoder-Augmented Hebbian Learning through the Collection of Novel Experiences. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Justin K. Pugh, Joshua Bowren |
| 2016 | GECCO | Simple Evolutionary Optimization Can Rival Stochastic Gradient Descent in Neural Networks. | Gregory Morse, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2016 | GECCO | An Extended Study of Quality Diversity Algorithms. | Justin K. Pugh, Lisa B. Soros, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2016 | GECCO | Generative and Developmental Systems Tutorial. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2016 | PPSN | Searching for Quality Diversity When Diversity is Unaligned with Quality. | Justin K. Pugh, Lisa B. Soros, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2015 | AAAI | Unsupervised Feature Learning through Divergent Discriminative Feature Accumulation. | Paul A. Szerlip, Gregory Morse, Justin K. Pugh, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2015 | GECCO | Confronting the Challenge of Quality Diversity. | Justin K. Pugh, Lisa B. Soros, Paul A. Szerlip, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2015 | GECCO | Generative and Developmental Systems Tutorial. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Real-time Hebbian Learning from Autoencoder Features for Control Tasks. | Justin K. Pugh, Andrea Soltoggio, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Identifying Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution through the Artificial Life World of Chromaria. | Lisa B. Soros, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Steps Toward a Modular Library for Turning Any Evolutionary Domain into an Online Interactive Platform. | Paul A. Szerlip, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2014 | GECCO | Directional communication in evolved multiagent teams. | Justin K. Pugh, Skyler Goodell, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2014 | GECCO | Guided self-organization in indirectly encoded and evolving topographic maps. | Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2014 | GECCO | Generative and developmental systems tutorial. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2014 | GECCO | A novel human-computer collaboration: combining novelty search with interactive evolution. | Brian G. Woolley, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2013 | GECCO | Effective diversity maintenance in deceptive domains. | Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2013 | GECCO | Single-unit pattern generators for quadruped locomotion. | Gregory Morse, Sebastian Risi, Charles R. Snyder, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2013 | GECCO | Evolving multimodal controllers with HyperNEAT. | Justin K. Pugh, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2013 | GECCO | Confronting the challenge of learning a flexible neural controller for a diversity of morphologies. | Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2013 | GECCO | Generative and developmental systems. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2013 | IJCNN | NeuroEvolutionary meta-optimization. | Andreas Lang, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2012 | ALIFE | Rewarding Reactivity to Evolve Robust Controllers without Multiple Trials or Noise. | Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, David B. D'Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2012 | ALIFE | Beyond Open-endedness: Quantifying Impressiveness. | Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2012 | GECCO | Evolving neural networks. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2012 | GECCO | Generative and developmental systems. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2012 | IJCNN | A unified approach to evolving plasticity and neural geometry. | Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | CEC | Improving evolvability through novelty search and self-adaptation. | Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | GECCO | Evolving neural networks for geometric game-tree pruning. | Jason Gauci, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | GECCO | Interactively evolving harmonies through functional scaffolding. | Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | GECCO | Evolving a diversity of virtual creatures through novelty search and local competition. | Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | GECCO | Enhancing es-hyperneat to evolve more complex regular neural networks. | Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | GECCO | Constraining connectivity to encourage modularity in HyperNEAT. | Phillip Verbancsics, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | GECCO | On the deleterious effects of a priori objectives on evolution and representation. | Brian G. Woolley, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2011 | IROS | Task switching in multirobot learning through indirect encoding. | David B. D'Ambrosio, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | FDG | Interactive genetic engineering of evolved video game content. | Erin J. Hastings, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | GECCO | Revising the evolutionary computation abstraction: minimal criteria novelty search. | Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | GECCO | Efficiently evolving programs through the search for novelty. | Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | GECCO | Evolving the placement and density of neurons in the hyperneat substrate. | Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | GECCO | Generative and developmental systems. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | GECCO | Transfer learning through indirect encoding. | Phillip Verbancsics, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | OOPSLA | To achieve our highest goals, we must be willing to abandon them. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | PPSN | Indirect Encoding of Neural Networks for Scalable Go. | Jason Gauci, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2010 | PPSN | Evolving a Single Scalable Controller for an Octopus Arm with a Variable Number of Segments. | Brian G. Woolley, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2009 | GECCO | Evolving neural networks. | Risto Miikkulainen, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2009 | GECCO | How novelty search escapes the deceptive trap of learning to learn. | Sebastian Risi, Sandy D. Vanderbleek, Charles E. Hughes, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2009 | GECCO | Generative and developmental systems. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2008 | AAAI | A Case Study on the Critical Role of Geometric Regularity in Machine Learning. | Jason Gauci, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2008 | ALIFE | Exploiting Open-Endedness to Solve Problems Through the Search for Novelty. | Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2008 | GECCO | Generative encoding for multiagent learning. | David B. D'Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2008 | GECCO | Evolving neural networks. | Risto Miikkulainen, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2008 | GECCO | Generative and developmental systems. | Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2007 | GECCO | A novel generative encoding for exploiting neural network sensor and output geometry. | David B. D'Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2007 | GECCO | Generating large-scale neural networks through discovering geometric regularities. | Jason Gauci, Kenneth O. Stanley |
| 2007 | GECCO | Introductory tutorial on coevolution. | Edwin D. de Jong, Kenneth O. Stanley, R. Paul Wiegand |
| 2006 | AAAI | Real-Time Evolution of Neural Networks in the NERO Video Game. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Bobby D. Bryant, Igor Karpov, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2006 | AAAI | Real-Time Interactive Learning in the NERO Video Game. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Igor Karpov, Risto Miikkulainen, Aliza Gold |
| 2006 | GECCO | Evolving a real-world vehicle warning system. | Nate Kohl, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen, Michael E. Samples, Rini Sherony |
| 2006 | GECCO | Coevolution of neural networks using a layered pareto archive. | German A. Monroy, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2005 | GECCO | Towards an empirical measure of evolvability. | Joseph Reisinger, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2005 | GECCO | Neuroevolution of an automobile crash warning system. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Nate Kohl, Rini Sherony, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2005 | GECCO | Automatic feature selection in neuroevolution. | Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen, Nate Kohl |
| 2004 | GECCO | Evolving Reusable Neural Modules. | Joseph Reisinger, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2004 | GECCO | Evolving a Roving Eye for Go. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2003 | CEC | Evolving adaptive neural networks with and without adaptive synapses. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Bobby D. Bryant, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2002 | CEC | Efficient evolution of neural network topologies. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2002 | GECCO | Continual Coevolution Through Complexification. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2002 | GECCO | Efficient Reinforcement Learning Through Evolving Neural Network Topologies. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen |