Kenneth Stanley
SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences; former Open-Endedness Team Leader at OpenAI and creator of NEAT
Kenneth O. Stanley is SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences. Stanley previously led the Open-Endedness Team at OpenAI, headed Core AI Research at Uber AI, co-founded Geometric Intelligence, served as CEO of Maven, and was the Charles Millican Professor in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. With colleagues, Stanley invented methods including NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), HyperNEAT, novelty search, Go-Explore, POET and Evolution through Large Models (ELM), and co-wrote "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" with Joel Lehman.123
Work
Evolution through Large Models (ELM) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author with Joel Lehman and others of "Evolution through Large Models" (2022), which uses code-generating language models as mutation operators in genetic programming; Stanley's homepage lists ELM among the methods Stanley co-invented.32
NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT)Published research
Listed on Stanley's homepage as an inventor, with colleagues, of NEAT and its extensions HyperNEAT and ES-HyperNEAT, along with compositional pattern producing networks and novelty search.2
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