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Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata
Caitlin Grasso, Josh Bongard
Empowerment -- a domain independent, information-theoretic metric -- has previously been shown to assist in the evolutionary search for neural cellular automata (NCA) capable of ho…
Selecting Continuous Life-Like Cellular Automata for Halting Unpredictability: Evolving for Abiogenesis
Q. Tyrell Davis, Josh Bongard
Substantial efforts have been applied to engineer CA with desired emergent properties, such as supporting gliders. Recent work in continuous CA has generated a wide variety of comp…
Empowered Neural Cellular Automata
Caitlin Grasso, Josh Bongard
Information-theoretic fitness functions are becoming increasingly popular to produce generally useful, task-independent behaviors. One such universal function, dubbed empowerment,…
A good body is all you need: avoiding catastrophic interference via agent architecture search
Joshua Powers, Ryan Grindle, Lapo Frati +1
In robotics, catastrophic interference continues to restrain policy training across environments. Efforts to combat catastrophic interference to date focus on novel neural architec…
A Minimal Developmental Model Can Increase Evolvability in Soft Robots
Sam Kriegman, Nick Cheney, Francesco Corucci +1
Different subsystems of organisms adapt over many time scales, such as rapid changes in the nervous system (learning), slower morphological and neurological change over the lifetim…