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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…
Limbomorphs
Alex Alvarez, Michael Levin
Artificial life systems are typically defined by a set of dynamical rules over an environment, an agent, or both, from which lifelike patterns may emerge. Gifbreeder is an animated…
The Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis: Causal Emergence Aligns with and Predicts Final Reward in Reinforcement Learning Agents
Federico Pigozzi, Michael Levin
A hallmark of life on Earth is the ability of agents to exert causal power and be drivers of subsequent events. This is key to cognition at all scales. Causal emergence, measuring…
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…