For the most up-to-date list, please see Google Scholar.
(check out the video thumbnails below for fun summary videos, where available)
| Towards an Understanding of Stochastic Differentiable Neural Architecture Search Meyer-Lee, G., Cheney, N. ICLR 2020 Workshop on Neural Architecture Search, 2020 pdf | poster | video |
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Unmet needs and behaviour during the Ebola response in Sierra Leone: a retrospective, mixed-methods analysis of community feedback from the Social Mobilization Action Consortium Skrip, L.A., Bedson, J., Abramowitz, S., Jalloh, M. B., Bah, S., Jalloh, M. F., Langle-Chimal, O. D., Cheney, N., Hébert-Dufresne, L., Althouse, B. M. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2020 |
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Learning to Continually Learn Beaulieu, S., Frati, L., Miconi, T., Lehman, J., Stanley, K., Clune, J., Cheney, N. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2020 |
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Using Digital Field Experiments To Elicit Risk Mitigation Behavioral Strategies For Disease Management Across Agricultural Production Systems Clark, E., Merrill, S., Trinity, L., Bucini, G., Cheney, N., Langle-Chimal, O., Shrum, T., Koliba, C., Zia, A., Smith, J. PLoS ONE, 2020 pdf | bibtex |
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Estimating Biomechanical Time-Series with Wearable Sensors: A Systematic Review of Machine Learning Techniques Gurchiek, R., Cheney, N., McGinnis, R. Sensors, 2019 |
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Embodiment Dictates Learnability in Neural Controllers Powers, J., Grindle, R., Kriegman, S., Frati, L., Cheney, N., Bongard, J. arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07487, 2019 pdf | bibtex |
| How Morphological Development Can Guide Evolution Kriegman, S., Cheney, N., Bongard, J. Nature Scientific Reports, 2018 pdf | bibtex | video |
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EVO-SCHIRP: Evolved Secure Swarm Communications Wolf, S., Cooley, R., Borowczak, M., Cheney, N. ISC2-2018: IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, Workshop on 5G Communication, Security and Privacy in Smart Cities, 2018 pdf | image |
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Scalable Co-Optimization of Morphology and Control in Embodied Machines Cheney, N., Bongard, J., SunSpiral, V., Lipson, H. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018 pdf | bibtex | image |
| Evolving Soft Locomotion in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments: Effects of Material Properties and Environmental Transitions Corucci, F., Cheney, N., Giorgio-Serchi, F., Bongard, J., Laschi, C. Soft Robotics, 2018 pdf | bibtex | video |
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| The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities Lehman, J., Clune, J., Misevic, D., Adami, C., … Cheney, N., … Yosinski, J. arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03453, 2018 pdf | bibtex | video |
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| Interoceptive Robustness Through Environment-Mediated Morphological Development Kriegman, S., Cheney, N., Corucci, F., Bongard, J. GECCO2018: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018 pdf | bibtex | video |
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The Role of Embodiment in Open-Ended Evolution Bongard, J., Cheney, N., Mahoor, Z., Powers, J. ALIFE2018: The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, 2018 pdf | image |
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On the Robustness of Convolutional Neural Networks to Internal Architecture and Weight Perturbations Cheney, N., Schrimpf, M., Kreiman, G. arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08245, 2017 pdf | bibtex |
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Evolutionary Developmental Soft Robotics as a Framework to Study Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior in Animals and Plants Corucci, F., Cheney, N., Kriegman, S., Bongard, J., Laschi, C. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2017 pdf | bibtex | video |
| A Minimal Developmental Model Can Increase Evolvability in Soft Robots Kriegman, S., Cheney, N., Corucci, F., Bongard, J. GECCO2017: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017 pdf | bibtex | video |
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Simulating the Evolution of Soft and Rigid-Body Robots Kriegman, S., Cappelle, C., Corucci, F., Bernatskiy, A., Cheney, N.,Bongard, J. GECCO2017: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Workshop on Simulation in Evolutionary Robotics, 2017 pdf | bibtex |
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On the Difficulty of Co-Optimizing Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Creatures Cheney, N., Bongard, J., SunSpiral, V., Lipson, H. ALIFE XV, The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2016 pdf | bibtex |
| Material Properties Affect Evolution’s Ability to Exploit Morphological Computation in Growing Soft-Bodied Creatures Corucci, F., Cheney, N., Lipson, H., Laschi, C., Bongard, J. ALIFE XV, The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2016 pdf | bibtex | video |
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Topological Evolution for Embodied Cellular Automata Cheney, N., Lipson, H. Theoretical Computer Science, 2016 pdf | bibtex |
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Evolving Swimming Soft-Bodied Creatures Corucci, F., Cheney, N., Lipson, H., Laschi, C., Bongard, J. ALIFE XV, The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Late Breaking Proceedings, 2016 pdf | bibtex | video |
| How the Strictness of the Minimal Criterion Impacts Open-Ended Evolution Soros, L., Cheney, N., Stanley, K. ALIFE XV, The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2016 pdf | bibtex | video | images |
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Evolving Soft Robots in Tight Spaces Cheney, N., Bongard, J., Lipson, H. GECCO2015: Proceedings of the annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2015 pdf | bibtex |
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Automated Vibrational Design and Natural Frequency Tuning of Multi-Material Structures Cheney, N., Ritz, E., Lipson, H. GECCO2014: Proceedings of the annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2014 pdf | bibtex |
| Evolved Electrophysiological Soft Robots Cheney, N., Clune, J., Lipson, H. ALIFE14: The Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2014 pdf | bibtex | video |
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Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking Cheney, N., Clune, J., Yosinski, J., Lipson, H. arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4889, 2013 pdf | bibtex |
| Unshackling Evolution: Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials and a Powerful Generative Encoding Cheney, N., MacCurdy, R., Clune, J., Lipson, H. GECCO2013: Proceedings of the annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2013 pdf | bibtex | video</br >*this work is credited as having “introduced the evolution of soft robots” |
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Ablation of Multi-Wavelet Reentry: Agreement between an Evolutionary Computational and a Conceptually Guided Strategy Celis, S., Cheney, N., Eppstein, M., Benson, B., Spector, P. unpublished pdf | bibtex |