David B. D’Ambrosio

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 761 citations indexed

About

David B. D’Ambrosio is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David B. D’Ambrosio has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 761 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in David B. D’Ambrosio's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (7 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (5 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Games (5 papers). David B. D’Ambrosio is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (7 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (5 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Games (5 papers). David B. D’Ambrosio collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. David B. D’Ambrosio's co-authors include Kenneth O. Stanley, Jason Gauci, Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, Jimmy Secretan, Adam Campbell, Ryan Hall, James Daniel Lehman, Corey Lynch and Saminda Abeyruwan and has published in prestigious journals such as Evolutionary Computation, Leonardo and Artificial Life.

In The Last Decade

David B. D’Ambrosio

13 papers receiving 715 citations

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A Hypercube-Based Encoding for Evolving Large-Scale Neural Networks

2009 417 citations Kenneth O. Stanley, David B. D’Ambrosio et al. Artificial Life profile →

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14 of 14 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement 2025 ·Heni Ben Amor, (unknown), Atıl Işçen, David B. D’Ambrosio, (unknown), Alex Bewley, (unknown), (unknown), Swaroop Mishra, Pannag Sanketi	0
2	Learning High Speed Precision Table Tennis on a Physical Robot 2022 ·2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) ·Tianli Ding, (unknown), Saminda Abeyruwan, David B. D’Ambrosio, (unknown), Pierre Sermanet, Pannag Sanketi, Corey Lynch	9
3	Petalz: Search-Based Procedural Content Generation for the Casual Gamer 2015 ·IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games ·Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, David B. D’Ambrosio, Ryan Hall, Kenneth O. Stanley	23
4	Automatically Categorizing Procedurally Generated Content for Collecting Games 2014 ·Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, David B. D’Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley	3
5	Scalable multiagent learning through indirect encoding of policy geometry 2013 ·Evolutionary Intelligence ·David B. D’Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley	14
6	Combining Search-Based Procedural Content Generation and Social Gaming in the Petalz Video Game 2012 ·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment ·Sebastian Risi, Joel Lehman, David B. D’Ambrosio, Ryan Hall, Kenneth O. Stanley	34
7	Rewarding Reactivity to Evolve Robust Controllers without Multiple Trials or Noise 2012 ·Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research ·Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, David B. D’Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley	2
8	Task switching in multirobot learning through indirect encoding 2011 ·2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ·David B. D’Ambrosio, James Daniel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley	7
9	Evolving policy geometry for scalable multiagent learning 2010 ·Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems ·David B. D’Ambrosio, Joel Lehman, Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley	33
10	Picbreeder: A Case Study in Collaborative Evolutionary Exploration of Design Space 2010 ·Evolutionary Computation ·Jimmy Secretan, (unknown), David B. D’Ambrosio, (unknown), Adam Campbell, (unknown), Kenneth O. Stanley	107
11	A Hypercube-Based Encoding for Evolving Large-Scale Neural Networks breakdown → 2009 ·Artificial Life ·Kenneth O. Stanley, David B. D’Ambrosio, Jason Gauci	417
12	Generative encoding for multiagent learning 2008 ·Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research ·David B. D’Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley	58
13	Picbreeder: Collaborative Interactive Evolution of Images 2008 ·Leonardo ·Jimmy Secretan, (unknown), David B. D’Ambrosio, (unknown), Adam Campbell, Kenneth O. Stanley	5
14	A novel generative encoding for exploiting neural network sensor and output geometry 2007 ·Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research ·David B. D’Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley	49

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