4 papers
Emergent Macro-Criticality from Micro-Critical Agents
Nicolas Bessone, Erwan Plantec
Criticality has been proposed as a key principle underlying complex behavior in biological and artificial systems; however, how criticality translates from individual dynamics to c…
Hypernetworks That Evolve Themselves
Joachim Winther Pedersen, Erwan Plantec, Eleni Nisioti +4
How can neural networks evolve themselves without relying on external optimizers? We propose Self-Referential Graph HyperNetworks, systems where the very machinery of variation and…
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,…
When Does Neuroevolution Outcompete Reinforcement Learning in Transfer Learning Tasks?
Eleni Nisioti, Joachim Winther Pedersen, Erwan Plantec +2
The ability to continuously and efficiently transfer skills across tasks is a hallmark of biological intelligence and a long-standing goal in artificial systems. Reinforcement lear…