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Reasoning with Neural Cellular Automata
Mayalen Etcheverry, Pietro Miotti, Aidan Sirbu +7
Modern AI architectures used to solve visual reasoning tasks typically rely heavily on global connectivity and synchronization. As biological systems demonstrate, though, sophistic…
Diffusion as a Training Curriculum for Timestep-Free Iterative Reasoning
Mariia Drozdova, Aidan Sirbu, Pietro Miotti +4
Diffusion models and recursive reasoners are both iterative, but they carry information across iterations differently. We add a persistent hidden state to a diffusion denoiser and…
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…
Flow-Lenia: Emergent evolutionary dynamics in mass conservative continuous cellular automata
Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry +3
Central to the artificial life endeavour is the creation of artificial systems spontaneously generating properties found in the living world such as autopoiesis, self-replication,…
Discovering Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata using Diversity Search
Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry, Bert Wang-Chak Chan +2
The research field of Artificial Life studies how life-like phenomena such as autopoiesis, agency, or self-regulation can self-organize in computer simulations. In cellular automat…
Meta-Diversity Search in Complex Systems, A Recipe for Artificial Open-Endedness ?
Mayalen Etcheverry, Bert Wang-Chak Chan, Clément Moulin-Frier +1
Can we build an artificial system that would be able to generate endless surprises if ran "forever" in Minecraft? While there is not a single path toward solving that grand challen…
SBMLtoODEjax: Efficient Simulation and Optimization of Biological Network Models in JAX
Mayalen Etcheverry, Michael Levin, Clément Moulin-Frier +1
Advances in bioengineering and biomedicine demand a deep understanding of the dynamic behavior of biological systems, ranging from protein pathways to complex cellular processes. B…
Flow-Lenia: Towards open-ended evolution in cellular automata through mass conservation and parameter localization
Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry +3
The design of complex self-organising systems producing life-like phenomena, such as the open-ended evolution of virtual creatures, is one of the main goals of artificial life. Len…
Hierarchically Organized Latent Modules for Exploratory Search in Morphogenetic Systems
Mayalen Etcheverry, Clement Moulin-Frier, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Self-organization of complex morphological patterns from local interactions is a fascinating phenomenon in many natural and artificial systems. In the artificial world, typical exa…
Progressive growing of self-organized hierarchical representations for exploration
Mayalen Etcheverry, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Chris Reinke
Designing agent that can autonomously discover and learn a diversity of structures and skills in unknown changing environments is key for lifelong machine learning. A central chall…
Intrinsically Motivated Discovery of Diverse Patterns in Self-Organizing Systems
Chris Reinke, Mayalen Etcheverry, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
In many complex dynamical systems, artificial or natural, one can observe self-organization of patterns emerging from local rules. Cellular automata, like the Game of Life (GOL), h…