Novelty and interestingness measures for design-space exploration

Abstract

Measures of novelty and interestingness are frequently encountered in the context of developmental robotics, being derived from human psychology. This work addresses these measures from the viewpoint of enhancing design-space exploration in black-box optimization. We provide a unifying notational and naming scheme with the intent of facilitating comparison, implementation, and application in the domain of design optimization. Initial analysis shows a promising interestingness measure for being tried on real-world design problems.