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On Growth and Form, and Function: Reusable Regulatory Handles Control Phenotypic Variation
Benedikt Hartl, Milton L. Montero, Marcello Barylli +2
How phenotypic transformations are implemented by changes in underlying regulatory dynamics remains a central question in developmental biology. Inspired by D'Arcy Thompson's 1917…
Evolving Symbiosis, from Barricelli's Legacy to Collective Intelligence: a simulated and conceptual approach
James Ashford, Marko Cvjetko, Richard Löffler +6
This report documents the work of our group (named SymBa) at the ALICE 2026 workshop in Copenhagen. Inspired by the pioneering work by Nils Aall Barricelli on symbiogenesis of nume…
Heuristically Adaptive Diffusion-Model Evolutionary Strategy
Benedikt Hartl, Yanbo Zhang, Hananel Hazan +1
Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and r…
Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms
Yanbo Zhang, Benedikt Hartl, Hananel Hazan +1
In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolutio…