2 papers
cs.NE2024
Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata
Caitlin Grasso, Josh Bongard
Empowerment -- a domain independent, information-theoretic metric -- has previously been shown to assist in the evolutionary search for neural cellular automata (NCA) capable of ho…
cs.NE2024
Empowered Neural Cellular Automata
Caitlin Grasso, Josh Bongard
Information-theoretic fitness functions are becoming increasingly popular to produce generally useful, task-independent behaviors. One such universal function, dubbed empowerment,…