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Step size in continuous cellular automata (CA) plays an important role in the stability and behavior of self-organizing patterns. Continous CA dynamics are defined by formula very similar to numerical estimation of physics-based ordinary…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-05-26 Q. Tyrell Davis , Josh Bongard

The Stranded Cellular Automata (SCA) model consists of a grid of cells which can each contain between zero and two strands apiece and two turning rules that control when strands turn and when they cross. While patterns on this model have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Alexa Renner

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

Cellular automata (CA) is an important modelling paradigm for complex systems. In the design of cellular automata, the most difficult task is to find the transformation rules that describe the temporal evolution or pattern of a modelled…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-10-03 Lei Kou , Fangfang Zhang , Luobing Chen , Wende Ke , Quande Yuan , Junhe Wan , Zhen Wang

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

Evolving one-dimensional cellular automata (CAs) with genetic algorithms has provided insight into how improved performance on a task requiring global coordination emerges when only local interactions are possible. Two approaches that can…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 Justin Werfel , Melanie Mitchell , James P. Crutchfield

Cellular automata (CA) are dynamical systems on symbolic configurations on the lattice. They are also used as models of massively parallel computers. As dynamical systems, one would like to understand the effect of small random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Irène Marcovici , Mathieu Sablik , Siamak Taati

Artificial life aims to understand the fundamental principles of biological life by creating computational models that exhibit life-like properties. Although artificial life systems show promise for simulating biological evolution,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Niko Lorantos , Lee Spector

This research project investigates Lenia, an artificial life platform that simulates ecosystems of digital creatures. Lenia's ecosystem consists of simple, artificial organisms that can move, consume, grow, and reproduce. The platform is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Sanyam Jain , Aarati Shrestha , Stefano Nichele

We study the predictability of emergent phenomena in complex systems. Using nearest neighbor, one-dimensional Cellular Automata (CA) as an example, we show how to construct local coarse-grained descriptions of CA in all classes of Wolfram's…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-06-26 Navot Israeli , Nigel Goldenfeld

This paper introduces Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (DiffLogic CA), a novel combination of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) and Differentiable Logic Gates Networks (DLGNs). The fundamental computation units of the model are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pietro Miotti , Eyvind Niklasson , Ettore Randazzo , Alexander Mordvintsev

Cellular automata (CA) models are widely used to simulate complex systems with emergent behaviors, but identifying hidden parameters that govern their dynamics remains a significant challenge. This study explores the use of Convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Valery Ashu , Zhisong Liu , Heikki Haario , Andreas Rupp

Cellular Automata (CA) are a class of discrete dynamical systems that have been widely used to model complex systems in which the dynamics is specified at local cell-scale. Classically, CA are run on a regular lattice and with perfect…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Nazim A. Fates , Michel Morvan

We show techniques of analyzing complex dynamics of cellular automata (CA) with chaotic behaviour. CA are well known computational substrates for studying emergent collective behaviour, complexity, randomness and interaction between order…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2012-03-29 Genaro J. Martinez , Andrew Adamatzky , Ramon Alonso-Sanz

Evolutionary theorizing resembles building an aircraft while also piloting it; new results change the scaffold for older ideas, requiring revised strategy to remain airborne. A calculated kinetic pathway exists that, under explicit…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-11 Michael Yarus

We present a method for the automated discovery of system-level dynamics in Flow-Lenia--a continuous cellular automaton (CA) with mass conservation and parameter localization-using a curiosity--driven AI scientist. This method aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Thomas Michel , Marko Cvjetko , Gautier Hamon , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Clément Moulin-Frier

The cellular automaton (CA) pulsing model (arXiv:1806.06416) described the surprising phenomenon of spontaneous, sustained and robust rhythmic oscillations, pulsing dynamics, when random wiring is applied to a 2D `glider' rule running in a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2021-03-02 Andrew Wuensche , Edward Coxon

We introduce Afferent Learning, a framework that produces Computational Afferent Traces (CATs) as adaptive, internal risk signals for damage-avoidance learning. Inspired by biological systems, the framework uses a two-level architecture:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Wolfgang Maass , Sabine Janzen , Prajvi Saxena , Sach Mukherjee

A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mihai Oltean

This study focuses on an extended model of a standard cellular automaton (CA) that includes an extra index consisting of a radius that defines a perception area for each cell in addition to the radius defined by the CA rule. Extended…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Yoshihiko Kayama