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Cellular automata (CA) dynamics are ordered in terms of two global parameters, computable {\sl a priori} from the description of rules. While one of them (activity) has been used before, the second one is new; it estimates the average…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-22 P. -M. Binder

Developmental Graph Cellular Automata (DGCA) are a novel model for morphogenesis, capable of growing directed graphs from single-node seeds. In this paper, we show that DGCAs can be trained to grow reservoirs. Reservoirs are grown with two…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Matias Barandiaran , James Stovold

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

This paper investigates multimodal agents, in particular, OpenAI's Computer-User Agent (CUA), trained to control and complete tasks through a standard computer interface, similar to humans. We evaluated the agent's performance on the New…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Sarath Shekkizhar , Romain Cosentino

A major challenge in the Deep RL (DRL) community is to train agents able to generalize their control policy over situations never seen in training. Training on diverse tasks has been identified as a key ingredient for good generalization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Rémy Portelas , Clément Romac , Katja Hofmann , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Cayley graphs have a number of useful features: the ability to graphically represent finitely generated group elements and their relations; to name all vertices relative to a point; and the fact that they have a well-defined notion of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Pablo Arrighi , Simon Martiel , Vincent Nesme

This essay discusses the connections and differences between two emerging paradigms in deep learning, namely Neural Cellular Automata and Deep Equilibrium Models, and train a simple Deep Equilibrium Convolutional model to demonstrate the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Zhibai Jia

We propose a new frontier: Neural Computers (NCs) that unify computation, memory, and I/O of traditional computers in a learned runtime state. Our long-term goal is the Completely Neural Computer (CNC): the mature, general-purpose…

Large Language Models demonstrate remarkable mathematical capabilities but at the same time struggle with abstract reasoning and planning. In this study, we explore whether Transformers can learn to abstract and generalize the rules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mikhail Burtsev

The goal of this paper is to design image classification systems that, after an initial multi-task training phase, can automatically adapt to new tasks encountered at test time. We introduce a conditional neural process based approach to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 James Requeima , Jonathan Gordon , John Bronskill , Sebastian Nowozin , Richard E. Turner

In this paper, we give an elaborate and understandable review of traffic cellular automata (TCA) models, which are a class of computationally efficient microscopic traffic flow models. TCA models arise from the physics discipline of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Sven Maerivoet , Bart De Moor

We present results from an experiment similar to one performed by Packard (1988), in which a genetic algorithm is used to evolve cellular automata (CA) to perform a particular computational task. Packard examined the frequency of evolved CA…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Melanie Mitchell , Peter Hraber , James P. Crutchfield

Activation functions (AF) are necessary components of neural networks that allow approximation of functions, but AFs in current use are usually simple monotonically increasing functions. In this paper, we propose trainable compound AF (TCA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Paul M. Baggenstoss

We develop a theory characterizing the fundamental capability of deep neural networks to learn, from evolution traces, the logical rules governing the behavior of cellular automata (CA). This is accomplished by first establishing a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yani Zhang , Helmut Bölcskei

Active automata learning (AAL) algorithms can learn a behavioral model of a system from interacting with it. The primary challenge remains scaling to larger models, in particular in the presence of many possible inputs to the system. Modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Loes Kruger , Sebastian Junges , Jurriaan Rot

In this work, we investigate the computational aspects of asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs), a modification of cellular automata in which cells update independently, following an asynchronous schedule. We introduce flip automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ivan Baburin , Matthew Cook , Florian Grötschla , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

We introduce the use of two machine learning algorithms to create an empirical model of an experimental apparatus, which is able to reduce the number of measurements necessary for generic optimisation tasks exponentially as compared to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pascal Kobel , Martin Link , Michael Köhl

Existing Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms suffer from sample inefficiency. Generally, episodic control-based approaches are solutions that leverage highly-rewarded past experiences to improve sample efficiency of DRL algorithms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhuo Li , Derui Zhu , Yujing Hu , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Yan Zheng , Yan Song , Yingfeng Chen , Jianjun Zhao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained a significant attraction in the recent years due to their increasing real-world applications. Their performance is highly dependent to the network structure and the selected optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Parsa Esfahanian , Mohammad Akhavan

Non-uniform cellular automata (NUCA) are an extension of cellular automata (CA), which transform cells according to multiple different local rules. A NUCA is defined by a configuration of local rules called a local rule distribution. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Katariina Paturi