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Coevolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup
Francesco Cicala, Eyvind Niklasson, Ettore Randazzo +8
While traditional evolutionary algorithms hard-code reproduction, self-replication can emerge spontaneously within digital ``primordial soups''. This paper investigates the coevolu…
Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata: From Game of Life to Pattern Generation
Pietro Miotti, Eyvind Niklasson, Ettore Randazzo +1
This paper introduces Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (DiffLogic CA), a novel combination of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) and Differentiable Logic Gates Networks (DLGNs).…
Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Jyrki Alakuijala, James Evans +5
The fields of Origin of Life and Artificial Life both question what life is and how it emerges from a distinct set of "pre-life" dynamics. One common feature of most substrates whe…
Biomaker CA: a Biome Maker project using Cellular Automata
Ettore Randazzo, Alexander Mordvintsev
We introduce Biomaker CA: a Biome Maker project using Cellular Automata (CA). In Biomaker CA, morphogenesis is a first class citizen and small seeds need to grow into plant-like or…
Differentiable Programming of Chemical Reaction Networks
Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson
We present a differentiable formulation of abstract chemical reaction networks (CRNs) that can be trained to solve a variety of computational tasks. Chemical reaction networks are…
Growing Steerable Neural Cellular Automata
Ettore Randazzo, Alexander Mordvintsev, Craig Fouts
Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models have shown remarkable capacity for pattern formation and complex global behaviors stemming from local coordination. However, in the original i…