Discount Model Search for Quality Diversity Optimization in High-Dimensional Measure Spaces

We propose Discount Model Search (DMS), which guides CMA-MAE exploration with a model that provides a smooth, continuous representation of discount values. DMS works well in high dimensional measure spaces, outperforming CMA-MAE and other existing black-box QD algorithms.

B. Tjanaka, H. Chen, M. Fontaine, and S. Nikolaidis April 25, 2026