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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…
Meta-Learning an Evolvable Developmental Encoding
Milton L. Montero, Erwan Plantec, Eleni Nisioti +2
Representations for black-box optimisation methods (such as evolutionary algorithms) are traditionally constructed using a delicate manual process. This is in contrast to the repre…
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…
Structurally Flexible Neural Networks: Evolving the Building Blocks for General Agents
Joachim Winther Pedersen, Erwan Plantec, Eleni Nisioti +2
Artificial neural networks used for reinforcement learning are structurally rigid, meaning that each optimized parameter of the network is tied to its specific placement in the net…
Growing Artificial Neural Networks for Control: the Role of Neuronal Diversity
Eleni Nisioti, Erwan Plantec, Milton Montero +2
In biological evolution complex neural structures grow from a handful of cellular ingredients. As genomes in nature are bounded in size, this complexity is achieved by a growth pro…