---
id: "AEB-009"
category: "evolutionary_selection"
confidence: 0.95
date: "2026-02-15"
source_file: "Agentic OS Blueprint Research Synthesis (MAP-Elites section, OpenEvolve PyPI)"
---

# AEB-009

MAP-Elites (Multi-dimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites) maintains quality-diversity balance in evolutionary search by organizing solutions into a feature map where high-performing solutions from different algorithmic niches are preserved -- this prevents convergence to local optima by retaining a mutation that minimizes latency but increases memory in a separate cell from one that optimizes memory but sacrifices latency

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