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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models

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This paper cites Qwen3-VL Technical Report.

In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Qwen3-VL Technical Report

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Quality-diversity through ai feedback, 2023

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Augmenting autotelic agents with large language models

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Omni-epic: Open- endedness via models of human notions of interestingness with environments programmed in code, 2024

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Clustering to minimize the maximum intercluster distance

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models A Comparison of Large Language Model and Human Performance on Random Number Generation Tasks

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This paper cites Things-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale datasets for inves- tigating object representations in human brain and behavior.Elife, 12:e82580, 2023.

In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Things-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale datasets for inves- tigating object representations in human brain and behavior.Elife, 12:e82580, 2023

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This paper cites Agentic pcg: Procedural content generation via tool-using llms, March 2026.

In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Agentic pcg: Procedural content generation via tool-using llms, March 2026

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This paper cites Motif: Intrinsic motivation from artificial intelligence feedback.

In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Motif: Intrinsic motivation from artificial intelligence feedback

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Gonzalez, Hao Zhang, and Ion Stoica

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Gemini Embedding: Generalizable Embeddings from Gemini

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Evolution through large models

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Human planning in stochastic environments

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Robust, universal tree balance indices.Systematic biology, 71(5):1210–1224, 2022

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Rasterfairy

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Miguel, Carolina Feher de Silva, and Marcio Lobo Netto

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Language model crossover: Variation through few-shot prompt- ing.arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12170, 2023

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstrac- tion levels.Nature, 623:349–355, 2025

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Deep neural networks are easily fooled: High confidence predictions for unrecognizable images

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Understanding innovation engines: Automated creativity and improved stochastic optimization via deep learning

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models What is intrinsic motivation? a ty- pology of computational approaches.Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 1, 2007

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Aces: generating diverse programming puzzles with autotelic language models and semantic descriptors.arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10692, 2023

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Picbreeder: evolving pictures collaboratively online

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models On Creativity and Open-Endedness

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models Evolving neural networks through augmenting topologies.Evolutionary computation, 10(2):99–127, 2002

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models MIT press Cambridge, 1998

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models SigLIP 2: Multilingual Vision-Language Encoders with Improved Semantic Understanding, Localization, and Dense Features

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models How Random is Random? Evaluating the Randomness and Humaness of LLMs' Coin Flips

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models On the deleterious effects of a priori objectives on evolution and representation

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models fractured, entangled

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