A couple of productive days in Sarajevo working on optimisation under uncertainty as part of the ROAR-NET Cost action.

Learning in games usually assumes small action spaces. This afternoon at #AAAI2025 we give an oral presentation showing that the PDCoEA co-evolutionary algorithm finds the Nash Equilibrium of the game below (2^n actions) in expected poly(n) time. Joint work with @lss1242

Kyrre Glette Kyrre Glette with colleagues giving a tutorial on evolutionary robotics at the #ssci conference.

Kyrre Glette with colleagues giving a tutorial on evolutionary robotics at the #ssci conference.

Michael Hellwig presenting a tutorial on constraints handling in evolutionary strategies at the #SSCI conference.

Luca Manzoni presenting work by Nils Aall Barricelli in the 1950s. Perhaps the first experiments with a coevolutionary algorithm.

Evolutionary Algorithms continue to make strong impact in AI and machine learning, particularly when combined with LLMs. This latest work by Google Deepmind goes beyond FunSearch.

Congratulations Paul!

Interesting talk by Papadimitrou at the Nash@75 workshop in Oxford today. He proposed an alternative more computationally feasible solution concept for games based on replicator dynamics. However, I think the infinite population approximation is unrealistic for large games.

Exciting library for OCaml developers interested in ML

Alberto Moraglio and Francisco Chicano giving a GECCO 2026 tutorial on Quantum Optimisation.

Alistair Benford presenting our runtime analysis of co-evolutionary algorithms on combinatorial games at GECCO 2026 He shows that the runtime can be upper bounded in terms of a graph invariant called switchqbility.

Happy to join as Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization. The journal covers an extremely exciting area at the intersection of Machine Learning and Optimization. dl.acm.org/journal/telo

One of the take home messages from Marc Schoenauer's keynote at GECCO 2026 Theory is important for the evolutionary computation community.

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Joshua Knowles giving an inspiring keynote at FOGA conference about how to pick important research problems.

In the last keynote at FOGA, Tobias Glasmachers is talking about drift analysis in evolution strategies