6 papers
Diffusing Blame: Task-Dependent Credit Assignment in Biologically Plausible Dual-Stream Networks
Yutaro Yamada, Luca Grillotti, Rujikorn Charakorn +3
Biological neural circuits obey Dale's principle: each neuron's synapses are uniformly excitatory or inhibitory. Artificial networks that respect this constraint must coordinate se…
In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models
Sam Earle, Kai Arulkumaran, Andrew Dai +3
We are in the midst of large-scale industrial and academic efforts to automate the processes of scientific, technological and creative production through AI-driven assistants. Hist…
Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search
Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Isha Puri, Idan Shenfeld +6
Language models must now generalize out of the box to novel environments and work inside inference-scaling search procedures, such as AlphaEvolve, that select rollouts with a varie…
Simple Baselines are Competitive with Code Evolution
Yonatan Gideoni, Sebastian Risi, Yarin Gal
Code evolution is a family of techniques that rely on large language models to search through possible computer programs by evolving or mutating existing code. Many proposed code e…
Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
Akarsh Kumar, Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Prafull Sharma +4
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to evolve solutions to problems in many domains, in a process inspired by biological evolution. However, unlike biological…
Continuous Thought Machines
Luke Darlow, Ciaran Regan, Sebastian Risi +2
Biological brains demonstrate complex neural activity, where neural dynamics are critical to how brains process information. Most artificial neural networks ignore the complexity o…