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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 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 introduces EngramNCA, a neural cellular automaton (NCA) that integrates both publicly visible states and private, cell-internal memory channels, drawing inspiration from emerging biological evidence suggesting that memory storage…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Etienne Guichard , Felix Reimers , Mia Kvalsund , Mikkel Lepperød , Stefano Nichele

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely used to ground large language models in external knowledge sources. However, when applied to heterogeneous corpora and multi-step queries, Naive RAG pipelines often degrade in quality due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Valeriy Kovalskiy , Nikita Belov , Nikita Miteyko , Igor Reshetnikov , Max Maximov

We derive a set of algorithms for simulating the diffusion-limited growth of faceted crystals using local cellular automata. This technique has been shown to work well in reproducing realistic crystal morphologies, and the present work…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-17 Kenneth G. Libbrecht

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been a prominent concept within artificial intelligence. They are inspired by Biological Neural Networks (BNNs) and provide an intuitive and abstract representation of how BNNs work. Derived from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Stefano Nichele , Andreas Molund

Cellular Automata (CA) have long been foundational in simulating dynamical systems computationally. With recent innovations, this model class has been brought into the realm of deep learning by parameterizing the CA's update rule using an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Magnus Petersen

Reinforcement learning fine-tuning has proven effective for steering generative diffusion models toward desired properties in image and molecular domains. Graph diffusion models have similarly been applied to combinatorial structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Aleksei Liuliakov , Luca Hermes , Barbara Hammer

We propose a novel graph-driven generative model, that unifies multiple heterogeneous learning tasks into the same framework. The proposed model is based on the fact that heterogeneous learning tasks, which correspond to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Wenlin Wang , Hongteng Xu , Zhe Gan , Bai Li , Guoyin Wang , Liqun Chen , Qian Yang , Wenqi Wang , Lawrence Carin

Recent work introduced progressive network growing as a promising way to ease the training for large GANs, but the model design and architecture-growing strategy still remain under-explored and needs manual design for different image data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Lanlan Liu , Yuting Zhang , Jia Deng , Stefano Soatto

Graph-Rewriting Automata (GRA) are an extension of Cellular Automata to a dynamic structure using local graph-rewriting rules. This work introduces linear algebra based tools that allow for a practical investigation of their behavior in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Paul Cousin , Aude Maignan

The compact Genetic Algorithm (cGA) is an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm that generates offspring population according to the estimated probabilistic model of the parent population instead of using traditional recombination and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-01-07 Reza Rastegar , Arash Hariri

Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) are a promising new approach to model self-organizing processes, with potential applications in life science. However, their deterministic nature limits their ability to capture the stochasticity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Salvatore Milite , Giulio Caravagna , Andrea Sottoriva

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update rules that capture the adaptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Benedikt Hartl , Michael Levin , Léo Pio-Lopez

Graph Domain Adaptation (GDA) aims to bridge distribution shifts between domains by transferring knowledge from well-labeled source graphs to given unlabeled target graphs. One promising recent approach addresses graph transfer by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Wei Chen , Xingyu Guo , Shuang Li , Yan Zhong , Zhao Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Hongrui Liu , Libang Zhang , Guo Ye , Huimei He

A framework for implementing reservoir computing (RC) and extreme learning machines (ELMs), two types of artificial neural networks, based on 1D elementary Cellular Automata (CA) is presented, in which two separate CA rules explicitly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Nathan McDonald

This paper presents a novel framework using neural cellular automata (NCA) to regenerate and predict geographic information. The model extends the idea of using NCA to generate/regenerate a specific image by training the model with various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mingxiang Chen , Qichang Chen , Lei Gao , Yilin Chen , Zhecheng Wang

We present a method of generating diverse collections of neural cellular automata (NCA) to design video game levels. While NCAs have so far only been trained via supervised learning, we present a quality diversity (QD) approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Sam Earle , Justin Snider , Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Julian Togelius

Understanding the rules underlying organismal development is a major unsolved problem in biology. Each cell in a developing organism responds to signals in its local environment by dividing, excreting, consuming, or reorganizing, yet how…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-20 Ramya Deshpande , Francesco Mottes , Ariana-Dalia Vlad , Michael P. Brenner , Alma dal Co

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models have shown remarkable capacity for pattern formation and complex global behaviors stemming from local coordination. However, in the original implementation of NCA, cells are incapable of adjusting their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ettore Randazzo , Alexander Mordvintsev , Craig Fouts