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20162026
most citedPathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks

643 citations · 722 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.NE2026

Evolution & Foundation: AI Shares Creative Control

Dylan Banarse, Stephen Todd, William Latham +1

This paper investigates the creative process of automated design and artistic evaluation using an evolutionary system. We consider how a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) mod…

q-bio.NC2025

Wanting to Be Understood Explains the Meta-Problem of Consciousness

Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero

Because we are highly motivated to be understood, we created public external representations -- mime, language, art -- to externalise our inner states. We argue that such external…

cs.LG2025

Wanting to be Understood

Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero

This paper explores an intrinsic motivation for mutual awareness, hypothesizing that humans possess a fundamental drive to understand and to be understood even in the absence of ex…

cs.CL2023★ 27 cited

Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution

Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Henryk Michalewski +2

Popular prompt strategies like Chain-of-Thought Prompting can dramatically improve the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in various domains. However, such hand-cr…

cs.CV2023★ 12 cited

Perception Test: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Multimodal Video Models

Viorica Pătrăucean, Lucas Smaira, Ankush Gupta +21

We propose a novel multimodal video benchmark - the Perception Test - to evaluate the perception and reasoning skills of pre-trained multimodal models (e.g. Flamingo, SeViLA, or GP…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

CLIP-CLOP: CLIP-Guided Collage and Photomontage

Piotr Mirowski, Dylan Banarse, Mateusz Malinowski +2

The unabated mystique of large-scale neural networks, such as the CLIP dual image-and-text encoder, popularized automatically generated art. Increasingly more sophisticated generat…