🧭 Lehman & Stanley Deceptive Maze Objective vs Novelty Search
Search Configuration
Archive k-NN (k): 5
Novelty Add Threshold: 22
Novelty Search: Ignoring the goal objective entirely! Agents are rewarded purely for reaching novel, unvisited coordinates.
πŸ’‘ Notice how Objective Fitness drives the swarm directly into the cul-de-sac wall because it looks geometrically closer to the goal.
Search Status
Generation 0
Goal Reached? NO
Novelty Archive Size 0
Min Dist to Goal 180 px
🟒 Green dots: Novelty archive stepping stones
πŸ”΄ Red dots: Current population endpoints
⭐ Gold star: Maze exit goal