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Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

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

Very recently, the Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) has been proposed to simulate the morphogenesis process with deep networks. NCA learns to grow an image starting from a fixed single pixel. In this work, we show that the neural network (NN)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Hernandez Ruiz , Armand Vilalta , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Neural cellular automata represent an evolution of the traditional cellular automata model, enhanced by the integration of a deep learning-based transition function. This shift from a manual to a data-driven approach significantly increases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Andrea Menta , Alberto Archetti , Matteo Matteucci

Cellular Automata are discrete dynamical systems that evolve following simple and local rules. Despite of its local simplicity, knowledge discovery in CA is a NP problem. This is the main motivation for using data mining techniques for CA…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gilson A. Giraldi , Antonio A. F. Oliveira , Leonardo Carvalho

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) have proven to be effective in a variety of fields, with numerous biologically inspired applications. One of the fields, in which NCAs perform well is the generation of textures, modelling global patterns from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mirela-Magdalena Catrina , Ioana Cristina Plajer , Alexandra Baicoianu

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

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have shown great success in modeling time-dependent patterns, but there is limited research on their learned representations of latent temporal features and the emergence of these representations during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Peter DelMastro , Rushiv Arora , Edward Rietman , Hava T. Siegelmann

Recent extensions of Cellular Automata (CA) have incorporated key ideas from modern deep learning, dramatically extending their capabilities and catalyzing a new family of Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) techniques. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mattie Tesfaldet , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

Classical Cellular Automata (CCAs) are a powerful computational framework for modeling global spatio-temporal dynamics with local interactions. While CCAs have been applied across numerous scientific fields, identifying the local rule that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Faizal Hafiz , Amelia Kunze , Enrico Formenti , Davide La Torre

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

The emergent dynamics in spacetime diagrams of cellular automata (CAs) is often organised by means of a number of behavioural classes. Whilst classification of elementary CAs is feasible and well-studied, non-elementary CAs are generally…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-10 Michiel Rollier , Aisling J. Daly , Jan M. Baetens

Rapid advancements in deep learning over the past decade have fueled an insatiable demand for efficient and scalable hardware. Photonics offers a promising solution by leveraging the unique properties of light. However, conventional neural…

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

Cellular automata are a set of computational models in discrete space that have a discrete time evolution defined by neighbourhood rules. They are used to simulate many complex systems in physics and science in general. In this work,…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-05-12 Luca Bertolani , Andrea Idini

Cyclic cellular automata (CCA) are models of excitable media. Started from random initial conditions, they produce several different kinds of spatial structure, depending on their control parameters. We introduce new tools from information…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Cosma Rohilla Shalizi , Kristina Lisa Shalizi

We show that a neural network originally designed for language processing can learn the dynamical rules of a stochastic system by observation of a single dynamical trajectory of the system, and can accurately predict its emergent behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-18 Corneel Casert , Isaac Tamblyn , Stephen Whitelam

Stephen Wolfram proclaimed in his 2003 seminal work "A New Kind Of Science" that simple recursive programs in the form of Cellular Automata (CA) are a promising approach to replace currently used mathematical formalizations, e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Martin Spitznagel , Janis Keuper

This paper studies complexity of recognition of classes of bounded configurations by a generalization of conventional cellular automata (CA) -- finite dynamic cellular automata (FDCA). Inspired by the CA-based models of biological and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maxim Makatchev

In contrast to deep reinforcement learning agents, biological neural networks are grown through a self-organized developmental process. Here we propose a new hypernetwork approach to grow artificial neural networks based on neural cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Elias Najarro , Shyam Sudhakaran , Claire Glanois , Sebastian Risi