3 papers
cs.FL2025
Prebiotic Functional Programs: Endogenous Selection in an Artificial Chemistry
Devansh Vimal, Cole Mathis, Westley Weimer +1
Artificial chemistry simulations produce many intriguing emergent behaviors, but they are often difficult to steer or control. This paper proposes a method for steering the dynamic…
nlin.AO2024
Self-Organization in Computation & Chemistry: Return to AlChemy
Cole Mathis, Devansh Patel, Westley Weimer +1
How do complex adaptive systems, such as life, emerge from simple constituent parts? In the 1990s Walter Fontana and Leo Buss proposed a novel modeling approach to this question, b…
cs.SE2024
Automated Program Repair: Emerging trends pose and expose problems for benchmarks
Joseph Renzullo, Pemma Reiter, Westley Weimer +1
Machine learning (ML) now pervades the field of Automated Program Repair (APR). Algorithms deploy neural machine translation and large language models (LLMs) to generate software p…