7 papers
Flow-Lenia: Emergent evolutionary dynamics in mass conservative continuous cellular automata
Erwan Plantec, Gautier Hamon, Mayalen Etcheverry +3
Central to the artificial life endeavour is the creation of artificial systems spontaneously generating properties found in the living world such as autopoiesis, self-replication,…
Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding via non-episodic neuroevolution
Max Taylor-Davies, Gautier Hamon, Timothé Boulet +1
Kin selection theory has proven to be a popular and widely accepted account of how altruistic behaviour can evolve under natural selection. Hamilton's rule, first published in 1964…
Collective Innovation in Groups of Large Language Models
Eleni Nisioti, Sebastian Risi, Ida Momennejad +2
Human culture relies on collective innovation: our ability to continuously explore how existing elements in our environment can be combined to create new ones. Language is hypothes…
Cultural evolution in populations of Large Language Models
Jérémy Perez, Corentin Léger, Marcela Ovando-Tellez +4
Research in cultural evolution aims at providing causal explanations for the change of culture over time. Over the past decades, this field has generated an important body of knowl…
Evolving Reservoirs for Meta Reinforcement Learning
Corentin Léger, Gautier Hamon, Eleni Nisioti +2
Animals often demonstrate a remarkable ability to adapt to their environments during their lifetime. They do so partly due to the evolution of morphological and neural structures.…
Dynamics of niche construction in adaptable populations evolving in diverse environments
Eleni Nisioti, Clément Moulin-Frier
In both natural and artificial studies, evolution is often seen as synonymous to natural selection. Individuals evolve under pressures set by environments that are either reset or…