2 papers
cs.MA2026
Tapes Together Strong: The Co-evolution of Computation and Cooperation
Kunal Jha, Francesco Cicala, Blaise Agüera y Arcas +4
How does cooperation evolve in complex agentic systems? Prior work in evolutionary game theory studies why individuals are incentivized to cooperate by isolating social interaction…
cs.NE2026
Coevolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup
Francesco Cicala, Eyvind Niklasson, Ettore Randazzo +8
While traditional evolutionary algorithms hard-code reproduction, self-replication can emerge spontaneously within digital ``primordial soups''. This paper investigates the coevolu…