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On the potential for open-endedness in neural networks
Nicholas Guttenberg, Nathaniel Virgo, Alexandra Penn
Natural evolution gives the impression of leading to an open-ended process of increasing diversity and complexity. If our goal is to produce such open-endedness artificially, this…
Being curious about the answers to questions: novelty search with learned attention
Nicholas Guttenberg, Martin Biehl, Nathaniel Virgo +1
We investigate the use of attentional neural network layers in order to learn a `behavior characterization' which can be used to drive novelty search and curiosity-based policies.…
Chemical Heredity as Group Selection at the Molecular Level
Omer Markovitch, Olaf Witkowski, Nathaniel Virgo
Many examples of cooperation exist in biology. In chemical systems however, which can sometimes be quite complex, we do not appear to observe intricate cooperative interactions. A…