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Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-24 Hector Zenil

Cellular automata (CA) are a class of computational models that exhibit rich dynamics emerging from the local interaction of cells arranged in a regular lattice. In this work we focus on a generalised version of typical CA, called graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

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

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

Classical Cellular Automata (CCAs) are a powerful computational framework widely used to model complex systems driven by local interactions. Their simplicity lies in the use of a finite set of states and a uniform local rule, yet this…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2025-03-20 Enrico Formenti , Faizal Hafiz , Amelia Kunze , Davide La Torre

Large Language Models (LLMs), trained solely on massive text data, have achieved high performance on the Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC), a benchmark proposed to measure commonsense knowledge and reasoning abilities about the real world.…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-02-12 Keishu Utimula

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

Modeling the immune system so that its essential functionalities stand out without the need for every molecular or cellular interaction to be taken into account has been challenging for many decades. Two competing approaches have been the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2017-11-13 Kátia K. Cassiano , Valmir C. Barbosa

We say that a Cellular Automata (CA) is coalescing when its execution on two distinct (random) initial configurations in the same asynchronous mode (the same cells are updated in each configuration at each time step) makes both…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier , Michel Morvan

Cellular automata (CA) captivate researchers due to teh emergent, complex individualized behavior that simple global rules of interaction enact. Recent advances in the field have combined CA with convolutional neural networks to achieve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Marlene Grieskamp , Chaytan Inman , Shaun Lee

Cellular automata (CA) are dynamical systems defined by a finite local rule but they are studied for their global dynamics. They can exhibit a wide range of complex behaviours and a celebrated result is the existence of (intrinsically)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Laurent Boyer , Guillaume Theyssier

A digit function is presented which provides the $i$th-digit in base $p$ of any real number $x$. By means of this function, formulated within $\mathcal{B}$-calculus, the local, nonlocal and global dynamical behaviors of cellular automata…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

Various non-classical approaches of distributed information processing, such as neural networks, computation with Ising models, reservoir computing, vector symbolic architectures, and others, employ the principle of collective-state…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Denis Kleyko , E. Paxon Frady , Friedrich T. Sommer

This paper designs an efficient two-class pattern classifier utilizing asynchronous cellular automata (ACAs). The two-state three-neighborhood one-dimensional ACAs that converge to fixed points from arbitrary seeds are used here for pattern…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-02-01 Biswanath Sethi , Souvik Roy , Sukanta Das

We illustrate an application of Algorithmic Information Dynamics to Cellular Automata (CA) demonstrating how this digital calculus is able to quantify change in discrete dynamical systems. We demonstrate the sensitivity of the Block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Hector Zenil , Alyssa Adams

The cellular automata (CA) approach to traffic modeling is extended to allow for spatially homogeneous steady state solutions that cover a two dimensional region in the flow-density plane. Hence these models fulfill a basic postulate of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Dietrich E. Wolf

A general stochastic traffic cellular automaton (CA) model, which includes slow-to-start effect and driver's perspective, is proposed in this paper. It is shown that this model includes well known traffic CA models such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satoshi Sakai , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Shinji Iida

The original local, discrete example of Linear Unitary Cellular Automata (LUCA) is analyzed in terms of a new representation previously introduced in [1] for classical CA. Several important underlying symmetries are reviewed and their tight…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-08-22 T. E. Raptis

Cellular automata (CA) are well-studied models of decentralized parallel computation, known for their ability to exhibit complex global behavior from simple local rules. While their dynamics have been widely explored through simulations, a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dana Fisman , Noa Izsak

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