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This study significantly advances multi-texture synthesis using Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) by introducing a novel training methodology that enables robust self-regeneration of textures in damaged regions. This inherent healing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mirela-Magdalena Catrina , Ioana Cristina Plajer , Alexandra Băicoianu

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are a model of morphogenesis, capable of growing two-dimensional artificial organisms from a single seed cell. In this paper, we show that NCAs can be trained to respond to signals. Two types of signal are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 James Stovold

We propose Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) to simulate the microstructure development during the solidification process in metals. Based on convolutional neural networks, NCA can learn essential solidification features, such as preferred…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-08 Jian Tang , Siddhant Kumar , Laura De Lorenzis , Ehsan Hosseini

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models are trainable variations of traditional Cellular Automata (CA). Emergent motion in the patterns created by NCA has been successfully applied to synthesize dynamic textures. However, the conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yitao Xu , Ehsan Pajouheshgar , Sabine Süsstrunk

Traffic learning and prediction is at the heart of the evaluation of the performance of telecommunications networks and attracts a lot of attention in wired broadband networks. Now, benefiting from the big data in cellular networks, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Jianchao Zheng , Chengli Mei , Yueming Cai , Honggang Zhang

Measuring similarity in urban spatial networks is key to understanding cities as complex systems. Yet most existing methods are not tailored for spatial networks and struggle to differentiate them effectively. We propose GCA-Sim, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Peiru Wu , Maojun Zhai , Lingzhu Zhang

This paper introduces a hierarchical cellular automaton (HCA)model for simulation of distributed self-organizing control of traffic signals at intersections in road network. The proposed HCA consists of three hierarchy levels that describe…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Bartłomiej Płaczek

Modeling the ability of multicellular organisms to build and maintain their bodies through local interactions between individual cells (morphogenesis) is a long-standing challenge of developmental biology. Recently, the Neural Cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Alexander Mordvintsev , Ettore Randazzo , Craig Fouts

Cellular automaton (CA) approach is an important theoretical framework for studying complex system behavior and has been widely applied in various research field. CA traffic flow models have the advantage of flexible evolution rules and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-10-09 Junfang Tian , Chenqiang Zhu , Rui Jiang

The main contribution reported in the paper is a novel paradigm through which mobile cellular traffic forecasting is made substantially more accurate. Specifically, by incorporating freely available road metrics we characterise the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Natalia Vassileva Vesselinova

Layered Cellular Automata (LCA) extends the concept of traditional cellular automata (CA) to model complex systems and phenomena. In LCA, each cell's next state is determined by the interaction of two layers of computation, allowing for…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-08-15 Abhishek Dalai

From a telecommunication standpoint, the surge in users and services challenges next-generation networks with escalating traffic demands and limited resources. Accurate traffic prediction can offer network operators valuable insights into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Duc Thinh Ngo , Kandaraj Piamrat , Ons Aouedi , Thomas Hassan , Philippe Raipin-Parvédy

The cellular automata (CA) approach to traffic modeling is extended to allow for spatially homogeneous steady state solutions that cover a two dimensional region in the flow-density plane. Hence these models fulfill a basic postulate of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Dietrich E. Wolf

Biological systems exhibit remarkable morphogenetic plasticity, where a single genome can encode various specialized cellular structures triggered by local chemical signals. In the domain of Deep Learning, Differentiable Neural Cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ali Sakour

In nature, the process of cellular growth and differentiation has lead to an amazing diversity of organisms -- algae, starfish, giant sequoia, tardigrades, and orcas are all created by the same generative process. Inspired by the incredible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Rasmus Berg Palm , Miguel González-Duque , Shyam Sudhakaran , Sebastian Risi

Cellular automata represent physical systems where both space and time are discrete, and the associated physical quantities assume a limited set of values. While previous research has applied cellular automata in modeling chemical,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-10-30 Temitayo Adefemi

We investigate a cellular automaton (CA) model of traffic on a bi-directional two-lane road. Our model is an extension of the one-lane CA model of {Nagel and Schreckenberg 1992}, modified to account for interactions mediated by passing, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrice Simon , Howard A Gutowitz

A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed in which each member of the population can change schemata only with its neighbors according to a rule. The rule methodology and the neighborhood structure employ elements from the Cellular Automata (CA)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-11-16 Vasileios Barmpoutis , Gary F. Dargush

Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a particular kind of shift-invariant transformations characterized by a dynamics composed only of disjoint cycles. They have many applications in the simulation of physical systems, cryptography and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek , Domagoj Jakobovic , Alberto Leporati

To address the limitations of traffic prediction from location-bound detectors, we present Geographical Cellular Traffic (GCT) flow, a novel data source that leverages the extensive coverage of cellular traffic to capture mobility patterns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 ChungYi Lin , Shen-Lung Tung , Hung-Ting Su , Winston H. Hsu