3 papers
cs.NE2026
Co-evolution 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 co-evol…
cs.AI2025
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).…
cs.LG2024
Uncovering mesa-optimization algorithms in Transformers
Johannes von Oswald, Maximilian Schlegel, Alexander Meulemans +10
Some autoregressive models exhibit in-context learning capabilities: being able to learn as an input sequence is processed, without undergoing any parameter changes, and without be…