2 papers
q-bio.PE2026
How recombination rates affect escape from low-fitness states
Elisa Heinrich-Mora, Chase Van Amburg, Marcus W. Feldman
Adaptation often requires the assembly of favorable combinations of mutations that are individually deleterious. As a result, populations may remain trapped in low-fitness genetic…
cs.MA2025
The Emergence of Complex Behavior in Large-Scale Ecological Environments
Joseph Bejjani, Chase Van Amburg, Chengrui Wang +7
We explore how physical scale and population size shape the emergence of complex behaviors in open-ended ecological environments. In our setting, agents are unsupervised and have n…