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Every organism in an environment, whether biological, robotic or virtual, must be able to predict certain aspects of its environment in order to survive or perform whatever task is intended. It needs a model that is capable of estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Stefan Richthofer , Laurenz Wiskott

The research field of Artificial Life studies how life-like phenomena such as autopoiesis, agency, or self-regulation can self-organize in computer simulations. In cellular automata (CA), a key open-question has been whether it it is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Gautier Hamon , Mayalen Etcheverry , Bert Wang-Chak Chan , Clément Moulin-Frier , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Most decision and optimization problems encountered in practice fall into one of two categories with respect to any particular solving method or algorithm: either the problem is solved quickly (easy) or else demands an impractically long…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson

While there has been a keen interest in studying computation at the edge of chaos for dynamical systems undergoing a phase transition, this has come under question for cellular automata. We show that for continuously deformed cellular…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2019-04-15 E. Estevez-Rams , D. Estevez-Moya , K. Garcia-Medina , R. Lora-Serrano

Simulating the long-term dynamics of multi-scale and multi-physics systems poses a significant challenge in understanding complex phenomena across science and engineering. The complexity arises from the intricate interactions between scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Da Long , Shandian Zhe , Samuel Williams , Leonid Oliker , Zhe Bai

Particle filtering is a popular method for inferring latent states in stochastic dynamical systems, whose theoretical properties have been well studied in machine learning and statistics communities. In many control problems, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Simon S. Du , Wei Hu , Zhiyuan Li , Ruoqi Shen , Zhao Song , Jiajun Wu

Discrete dynamical systems can exhibit complex behaviour from the iterative application of straightforward local rules. A famous example are cellular automata whose global dynamics are notoriously challenging to analyze. To address this, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-22 Freya Behrens , Barbora Hudcová , Lenka Zdeborová

Many graph algorithms can be viewed as sets of rules that are iteratively applied, with the number of iterations dependent on the size and complexity of the input graph. Existing machine learning architectures often struggle to represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Christoffer Raun , Roger Wattenhofer

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

Estimating and detecting faults is crucial in ensuring safe and efficient automated systems. In the presence of disturbances, noise or varying system dynamics, such estimation is even more challenging. To address this challenge, this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Chris van der Ploeg , Emilia Silvas , Nathan van de Wouw , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

This paper proposes a framework for 3D obstacle avoidance in the presence of partial observability of environment obstacles. The method focuses on the utility of the Artificial Potential Function (APF) controller in a practical setting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shakeeb Ahmad , Zachary N. Sunberg , J. Sean Humbert

In this paper we propose an approach for measuring growth of complexity of emerging patterns in complex systems such as cellular automata. We discuss several ways how a metric for measuring the complexity growth can be defined. This…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-07-22 Hugo Cisneros , Josef Sivic , Tomas Mikolov

Dynamical systems (DS) methods for Learning-from-Demonstration (LfD) provide stable, continuous policies from few demonstrations. First-order dynamical systems (DS) are effective for many point-to-point and periodic tasks, as long as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ahmet Tekden , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Aude Billard , Yasemin Bekiroglu

The multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem seeks collision-free paths for a team of agents from their current positions to their pre-set goals in a known environment, and is an essential problem found at the core of many logistics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chengyang He , Tianze Yang , Tanishq Duhan , Yutong Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

Cellular automata are discrete and computational models thatcan be shown as general models of complexity. They are used in varied applications to derive the generalized behavior of the presented model. In this paper we have took one such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Karan Nayak

This study presents the approach to analyzing the evolution of an arbitrary complex system whose behavior is characterized by a set of different time-dependent factors. The key requirement for these factors is only that they must contain an…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-12-01 Anatolii V. Mokshin , Vladimir V. Mokshin , Diana A. Mirziyarova

Metaheuristic algorithms are widely used for solving complex optimization problems, yet their effectiveness is often constrained by fixed structures and the need for extensive tuning. The Polymorphic Metaheuristic Framework (PMF) addresses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Faramarz Safi Esfahani , Ghassan Beydoun , Morteza Saberi , Brad McCusker , Biswajeet Pradhan

From the formation of snowflakes to the evolution of diverse life forms, emergence is ubiquitous in our universe. In the quest to understand how complexity can arise from simple rules, abstract computational models, such as cellular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Maxence Faldor , Antoine Cully

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

Natural systems often exhibit chaotic behavior in their space-time evolution. Systems transiting between chaos and order manifest a potential to compute, as shown with cellular automata and artificial neural networks. We demonstrate that…

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