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20202026
most citedHyperNCA: Growing Developmental Networks with Neural Cellular Automata

6 citations · 11 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.HC2026

The Affordance is the Message: Creative Media as Complex Systems

Ane Espeseth, Elias Najarro

The affordances of a creative medium strongly condition the creative artefacts the medium will produce. In this work, we present a formalisation of computational creativity (CC) me…

cs.CL2026

Conversable Complexity: Agentic LLM Collectives as Interpretable Substrates

Elias Najarro, Ane Espeseth, Eleni Nisioti +2

Complexity and interpretability rarely coincide: systems rich enough for complex behaviours to emerge are usually too opaque to question, while transparent ones are too simple for…

cs.AI2026

Learning Developmental Scaffoldings to Guide Self-Organisation

Milton L. Montero, Elias Najarro, Jakob Schauser +1

From subcellular structures to entire organisms, many natural systems generate complex organisation through self-organisation: local interactions that collectively give rise to glo…

nlin.AO2025

Solving Inverse Problems in Stochastic Self-Organizing Systems through Invariant Representations

Elias Najarro, Nicolas Bessone, Sebastian Risi

Self-organizing systems demonstrate how simple local rules can generate complex stochastic patterns. Many natural systems rely on such dynamics, making self-organization central to…

cs.NE2024

From Text to Life: On the Reciprocal Relationship between Artificial Life and Large Language Models

Eleni Nisioti, Claire Glanois, Elias Najarro +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have taken the field of AI by storm, but their adoption in the field of Artificial Life (ALife) has been, so far, relatively reserved. In this work we…

cs.NE20232 cited

Towards Self-Assembling Artificial Neural Networks through Neural Developmental Programs

Elias Najarro, Shyam Sudhakaran, Sebastian Risi

Biological nervous systems are created in a fundamentally different way than current artificial neural networks. Despite its impressive results in a variety of different domains, d…