From text to life: On the reciprocal relationship between artificial life and large language models

E Nisioti, C Glanois, E Najarro, A Dai… - Artificial Life …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have taken the field of AI by storm, but their
adoption in the field of Artificial Life (ALife) has been, so far, relatively reserved. In this work …

Hypernca: Growing developmental networks with neural cellular automata

E Najarro, S Sudhakaran, C Glanois, S Risi - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In contrast to deep reinforcement learning agents, biological neural networks are grown
through a self-organized developmental process. Here we propose a new hypernetwork …

Empowered neural cellular automata

C Grasso, J Bongard - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Information-theoretic fitness functions are becoming increasingly popular to produce
generally useful, task-independent behaviors. One such universal function, dubbed …

Localized Data Representation with NCA-Based Autoencoders

N Ihm, J Kalkhof, A Mukhopadhyay - International Conference on Pattern …, 2024 - Springer
Although image classification networks such as ResNet have shown remarkable accuracy
across classification tasks, they experience significant performance degradation when …

Low-Shot Learning and Pattern Separation using Cellular Automata Integrated CNNs

T Pandit, D Kudithipudi - Proceedings of the International Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Traditionally, deep convolutional neural networks are computationally expensive to train and
require large amounts of data samples. In this article, we explore the use of pre-trained …

Exploring the applications of Neural Cellular Automata in molecular sciences

S Pagel, L Cronin - NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop - openreview.net
In recent years, Cellular Automata have been merged with developments in deep learning to
replace the traditional update rules with a neural network. These Neural Cellular Automata …