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Cellular automata are computers, similar to Turing machines. The main difference is that Turing machines use a one-dimensional tape, whereas cellular automata use a two-dimensional grid. The best-known cellular automaton is the Game of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-01-10 Peter Turney

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

Algorithms developed to solve many-body quantum problems, like tensor networks, can turn into powerful quantum-inspired tools to tackle problems in the classical domain. In this work, we focus on matrix product operators, a prominent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-27 Heitor P. Casagrande , Bo Xing , William J. Munro , Chu Guo , Dario Poletti

Cellular automata provide models of parallel computation based on cells, whose connectivity is given by an action of a monoid on the cells. At each step in the computation, every cell is decorated with a state that evolves in discrete steps…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Henning Basold , Chase Ford , Lulof Pirée

This paper studies three classes of cellular automata from a computational point of view: freezing cellular automata where the state of a cell can only decrease according to some order on states, cellular automata where each cell only makes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Nicolas Ollinger , Guillaume Theyssier

Recent breakthroughs in AI capability have been attributed to increasingly sophisticated architectures and alignment techniques, but a simpler principle may explain these advances: memory makes computation universal. Memory enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Erik Garrison

Parallel algorithms for solving any image processing task is a highly demanded approach in the modern world. Cellular Automata (CA) are the most common and simple models of parallel computation. So, CA has been successfully used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Deepak Ranjan Nayak , Prashanta Kumar Patra , Amitav Mahapatra

Dynamical systems are capable of performing computation in a reservoir computing paradigm. This paper presents a general representation of these systems as an artificial neural network (ANN). Initially, we implement the simplest dynamical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Sidney Pontes-Filho , Anis Yazidi , Jianhua Zhang , Hugo Hammer , Gustavo B. M. Mello , Ioanna Sandvig , Gunnar Tufte , Stefano Nichele

Cellular automata (CAs) are dynamical systems which exhibit complex global behavior from simple local interaction and computation. Since the inception of cellular automaton (CA) by von Neumann in 1950s, it has attracted the attention of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kamalika Bhattacharjee , Nazma Naskar , Souvik Roy , Sukanta Das

Computational power can be measured by assigning an algebraic structure to a computational device. Here, we convert a small patch of Conway's Game of Life into a transformation semigroup. The conversion captures not only time evolution but…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-04-17 Attila Egri-Nagy , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

To identify potential universal cellular automata, a method is developed to measure information processing capacity of elementary cellular automata. We consider two features of cellular automata: Ability to store information, and ability to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2018-03-20 Yanbo Zhang

We describe a class of cellular automata (CAs) that are end-to-end differentiable. DCAs interpolate the behavior of ordinary CAs through rules that act on distributions of states. The gradient of a DCA with respect to its parameters can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Carlos Martin

Cellular automata (CA) provide a minimal formalism for investigating how simple local interactions generate rich spatiotemporal behavior in domains as diverse as traffic flow, ecology, tissue morphogenesis and crystal growth. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jaime A. Berkovich , Noah S. David , Markus J. Buehler

A cellular automaton is a deterministic and exactly computable dynamical system which mimics certain fundamental aspects of physical dynamics such as spatial locality and finite entropy. CA systems can be constructed which have additional…

comp-gas · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Margolus

Cellular automata are both computational and dynamical systems. We give a complete classification of the dynamic behaviour of elementary cellular automata (ECA) in terms of fundamental dynamic system notions such as sensitivity and…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2013-02-21 Martin Schuele , Ruedi Stoop

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

Cellular automata and other discrete dynamical systems have long been studied as models of emergent complexity. Recently, neural cellular automata have been proposed as models to investigate the emerge of a more general artificial…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-07-28 Sanyam Jain , Stefano Nichele

This paper introduces a simple formalism for dealing with deterministic, non- deterministic and stochastic cellular automata in an unified and composable manner. This formalism allows for local probabilistic correlations, a feature which is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Pablo Arrighi , Nicolas Schabanel , Guillaume Theyssier

An automata network (AN) is a finite graph where each node holds a state from a finite alphabet and is equipped with a local map defining the evolution of the state of the node depending on its neighbors. They are studied both from the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Martín Ríos-Wilson , Guillaume Theyssier

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