Léni K. Le Goff

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The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities
J. Lehman, J. Clune, D. Misevic, C. Adami +49 more
2018Artificial Life329 citations Open access
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Morpho Evolution With Learning Using a Controller Archive as an Inheritance Mechanism
Léni K. Le Goff, Edgar Buchanan, E. Hart, A. Eiben +8 more
2021IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems29 citations Open access
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Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age
Stephen Pringle, M. Dallimer, Mark A. Goddard, Léni K. Le Goff +116 more
2025Nature Ecology & Evolution28 citations Open access
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Sample and time efficient policy learning with CMA-ES and Bayesian Optimisation
Léni K. Le Goff, Edgar Buchanan, E. Hart, A. Eiben +8 more
2020IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life22 citations Open access
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Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces
Wei Li, Edgar Buchanan, Léni K. Le Goff, Emma Hart +10 more
2024IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation20 citations Open access
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Artificial evolution of robot bodies and control: on the interaction between evolution, learning and culture
E. Hart, Léni K. Le Goff
2021Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences20 citations Open access
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Bootstrapping Artificial Evolution to Design Robots for Autonomous Fabrication
Edgar Buchanan, Léni K. Le Goff, Wei Li, E. Hart +8 more
2020Robotics20 citations Open access
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DREAM Architecture: a Developmental Approach to Open-Ended Learning in Robotics
S. Doncieux, Nicolas Bredèche, Léni K. Le Goff, Benoît Girard +8 more
2020arXiv.org19 citations
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Hardware Design for Autonomous Robot Evolution
Matthew F. Hale, Mike Angus, Edgar Buchanan, Wei Li +8 more
2020IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence16 citations Open access
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Building an Affordances Map With Interactive Perception
Léni K. Le Goff, Oussama Yaakoubi, Alexandre Coninx, S. Doncieux
2019Frontiers in Neurorobotics13 citations Open access
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Understanding Fitness Landscapes in Morpho-Evolution via Local Optima Networks
Sarah L. Thomson, Léni K. Le Goff, E. Hart, Edgar Buchanan
2024Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation11 citations Open access
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On the challenges of jointly optimising robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme
Léni K. Le Goff, E. Hart
2021GECCO Companion10 citations Open access
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On Pros and Cons of Evolving Topologies with Novelty Search
Léni K. Le Goff, E. Hart, Alexandre Coninx, S. Doncieux
2020IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life9 citations Open access
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Practical hardware for evolvable robots
M. Bilby, Edgar Buchanan, Léni K. Le Goff, E. Hart +7 more
2023Frontiers Robotics AI7 citations Open access
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Evolution of Diverse, Manufacturable Robot Body Plans
Edgar Buchanan, Léni K. Le Goff, E. Hart, A. E. Eiben +8 more
2020IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence6 citations Open access
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Segmenting Objects through an Autonomous Agnostic Exploration Conducted by a Robot
Léni K. Le Goff, G. Mukhtar, P. Le Fur, S. Doncieux
2017International Conference on Robotic Computing6 citations Open access
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Improving Efficiency of Evolving Robot Designs via Self-Adaptive Learning Cycles and an Asynchronous Architecture
Léni K. Le Goff, Emma Hart
2024GECCO Companion5 citations Open access
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Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search
Etor Arza, Léni K. Le Goff, E. Hart
2023ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization5 citations Open access
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Bootstrapping Robotic Ecological Perception from a Limited Set of Hypotheses Through Interactive Perception
Léni K. Le Goff, G. Mukhtar, Alexandre Coninx, S. Doncieux
2019arXiv.org5 citations
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Efficient and Diverse Generative Robot Designs Using Evolution and Intrinsic Motivation
Léni K. Le Goff, Simón C. Smith
2024IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation3 citations Open access
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An Investigation of the Factors Influencing Evolutionary Dynamics in the Joint Evolution of Robot Body and Control
Léni K. Le Goff, Edgar Buchanan, E. Hart
2024arXiv.org2 citations
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Robots for ecological monitoring: a review
Patrick J. C. White, Léni K. Le Goff, Antoine Cully, M. Wale +2 more
2026Biodiversity and Conservation1 citations Open access
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Understanding the Navigation of Robot Morphology Spaces with Local Optima Network Analysis
Sarah L. Thomson, Léni K. Le Goff, Emma Hart, A. E. Eiben +1 more
2025IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life1 citations Open access
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Towards a Unified Framework for Software-Hardware Integration in Evolutionary Robotics
Edgar Buchanan, Léni K. Le Goff, Matthew F. Hale, Emma Hart +7 more
2024Robotics1 citations Open access
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Visual saliency-based babbling of unknown dynamic environments
Léni K. Le Goff, Carlos Maestre, S. Doncieux
20151 citations
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Generation of Diverse and Functional Robot Designs using Superquadrics Parametrisation and Quality-Diversity
Léni K. Le Goff, Simón C. Smith, Emma Hart
2026arXiv.org0 citations
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Bootstrapping Robotic Ecological Perception with Exploration and Interactions
Léni K. Le Goff
20190 citations Open access
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Exploration of unknown dynamic environments: A visual saliency-based babbling approach
Léni K. Le Goff, P. Le Fur, S. Doncieux
2016Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics0 citations
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