Arbitrarily scalable environment generators via neural cellular automata

Y Zhang, M Fontaine, V Bhatt… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of generating arbitrarily large environments to improve the throughput
of multi-robot systems. Prior work proposes Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms as an effective …

Dynca: Real-time dynamic texture synthesis using neural cellular automata

E Pajouheshgar, Y Xu, T Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Current Dynamic Texture Synthesis (DyTS) models can synthesize realistic videos.
However, they require a slow iterative optimization process to synthesize a single fixed-size …

Attention-based neural cellular automata

M Tesfaldet, D Nowrouzezahrai… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Recent extensions of Cellular Automata (CA) have incorporated key ideas from
modern deep learning, dramatically extending their capabilities and catalyzing a new family …

Mesh neural cellular automata

E Pajouheshgar, Y Xu, A Mordvintsev… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Texture modeling and synthesis are essential for enhancing the realism of virtual
environments. Methods that directly synthesize textures in 3D offer distinct advantages to the …

NoiseNCA: Noisy Seed Improves Spatio-Temporal Continuity of Neural Cellular Automata

E Pajouheshgar, Y Xu, S Süsstrunk - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06279, 2024 - arxiv.org
Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) is a class of Cellular Automata where the update rule is
parameterized by a neural network that can be trained using gradient descent. In this paper …

AdaNCA: Neural Cellular Automata As Adaptors For More Robust Vision Transformer

Y Xu, T Zhang, S Süsstrunk - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08298, 2024 - arxiv.org
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in image
classification tasks, particularly when equipped with local information via region attention or …

Future Research Avenues for Artificial Intelligence in Digital Gaming: An Exploratory Report

M Dablander - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14085, 2024 - arxiv.org
Video games are a natural and synergistic application domain for artificial intelligence (AI)
systems, offering both the potential to enhance player experience and immersion, as well as …

Learning about Growing Neural Cellular Automata

S Catrina, M Catrina, A Băicoianu, IC Plajer - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural cellular automata have been proven effective in simulating morphogenetic
processes. Developing such automata has been applied in 2D and 3D processes related to …

Artificial morphogenesis via 3D neural cellular automata

MA Ravelo - 2024 - repositories.lib.utexas.edu
Morphogenesis is the biological process by which an organism grows and takes its form. It is
responsible for the growth and shape of all living things and has historically been studied …

Towards Self-Organized Brain: Topological Reinforcement Learning With Graph Cellular Automata

S Ray - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Automatizing optimal neural architectures is an under-explored domain; the majority of deep
learning domains base their architecture on multiplexing different well-known architectures …