Evolution and emergence: higher order information structure in protein interactomes across the tree of life

B Klein, E Hoel, A Swain, R Griebenow… - Integrative …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The internal workings of biological systems are notoriously difficult to understand. Due to the
prevalence of noise and degeneracy in evolved systems, in many cases the workings of …

Ising granularity image analysis on VAE–GAN

G Chen, S Long, Z Yuan, W Zhu, Q Chen… - Machine Vision and …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a variational autoencoder (VAE) and a VAE-generative
adversarial net (GAN) trained to generate from 12000 Ising granularity images, new and …

When to be critical? Performance and evolvability in different regimes of neural Ising agents

S Khajehabdollahi, J Prosi, E Giannakakis, G Martius… - Artificial Life, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
It has long been hypothesized that operating close to the critical state is beneficial for natural
and artificial evolutionary systems. We put this hypothesis to test in a system of evolving …

The dynamical regime and its importance for evolvability, task performance and generalization

J Prosi, S Khajehabdollahi, E Giannakakis… - ALIFE 2021: The 2021 …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
It has long been hypothesized that operating close to the critical state is beneficial for natural
and artificial systems. We test this hypothesis by evolving foraging agents controlled by …

Information and Criticality in Complex Stochastic Systems

G Nicoletti - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14583, 2023 - arxiv.org
This Thesis explores how tools from Statistical Physics and Information Theory can help us
describe and understand complex systems. In the first part, we study the interplay between …

Artificial life next generation perspectives: Echoes from the 2018 conference in tokyo

O Witkowski, T Ikegami, N Virgo, M Oka, H Iizuka - Artificial life, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Artificial life is a research field devoted to the theoretical study of features of living systems,
such as evolution and the brain. The field has developed philosophical concepts such as …