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Julian Togelius

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Preprint Aug 2026

The Time Value of Evolution

In evolutionary search, a weak child can be a valuable ancestor that makes high-fitness regions reachable. Immediate-return control is blind to this delayed utility, penalizing mutations through their immediate offspring even when they open productive future lineages. We formalize this hidden dynamic as the time value...

Matthew Siper, A. Khalifa, Julian Togelius · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

State Trace Rationale As Auxiliary Task in Reinforcement Learning

We propose STRAT, an auxiliary task that trains deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents to predict a short textual trace of their own state. Inspired by human spatial navigation, the description combines landmark, route, and survey knowledge, tracking the agent's position, inventory, goals, and immediate progress. Envi...

Muhammad Umair Nasir, Alex Vogt, Steven James et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Jul 2026

BiasQD-DT: Creating Interpretable Trade-Offs in Classifier Bias with Quality-Diversity Optimization via Decision Trees

A novel framework that integrates evolved decision trees generated from random seed-based vectors and Quality Diversity (QD) optimization to jointly address decision interpretability, predictive performance, and fairness is proposed.

Catalina M. Jaramillo, M. Charity, Julian Togelius · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

ELMER: Evolutionary Language Model that Explores and Refines

This work introduces an Evolutionary Language Model that searches over natural-language policy descriptions and compiles typed programs for execution and shows that language can serve as a steerable, execution-grounded search representation over executable program space.

Matthew Siper, A. Khalifa, Julian Togelius · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Procedural Content Metageneration via Program Search and Continual Abstraction Discovery

Large language models can generate executable programs, which makes it possible to search directly over procedural content generators rather than individual levels. We study this approach in Sokoban, Zelda, Dangerous Dave, and Lode Runner. Each run evolves complete Python generators through language-model mutation and...

Matthew Siper, A. Khalifa, Julian Togelius · 0 citations

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