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• Melting Pot 2.0
  24 Nov 2022 4 repositories listed
  Melting Pot is a research tool developed to facilitate work on multi-agent artificial intelligence, and provides an evaluation protocol that measures generalization to novel social partners in a set of canonical test…
• Lenia - Biology of Artificial Life
  13 Dec 2018 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 14 samples · 10 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  We report a new system of artificial life called Lenia (from Latin lenis "smooth"), a two-dimensional cellular automaton with continuous space-time-state and generalized local rule.
• Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction
  27 Jun 2024 2 repositories listed
  The fields of Origin of Life and Artificial Life both question what life is and how it emerges from a distinct set of "pre-life" dynamics.
• Coevolution of Camouflage
  24 Apr 2023 2 repositories listed
  Camouflage in nature seems to arise from competition between predator and prey.
• Artificial life properties of directed interaction combinators vs. chemlambda
  12 May 2020 2 repositories listed
  We provide a framework for experimentation at https://mbuliga.
• Lenia and Expanded Universe
  7 May 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  We report experimental extensions of Lenia, a continuous cellular automata family capable of producing lifelike self-organizing autonomous patterns.
• Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models
  23 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  With the recent Nobel Prize awarded for radical advances in protein discovery, foundation models (FMs) for exploring large combinatorial spaces promise to revolutionize many scientific fields.
• CAX: Cellular Automata Accelerated in JAX
  3 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Cellular automata have become a cornerstone for investigating emergence and self-organization across diverse scientific disciplines, spanning neuroscience, artificial life, and theoretical physics.
• Emergent Collective Reproduction via Evolving Neuronal Flocks
  20 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  This study facilitates the understanding of evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) through a novel artificial life framework, named VitaNova, that intricately merges self-organization and natural selection to…
• JaxLife: An Open-Ended Agentic Simulator
  1 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Towards this, we present JaxLife: an artificial life simulator in which embodied agents, parameterized by deep neural networks, must learn to survive in an expressive world containing programmable systems.
• How quantum and evolutionary algorithms can help each other: two examples
  1 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  We investigate the potential of bio-inspired evolutionary algorithms for designing quantum circuits with specific goals, focusing on two particular tasks.
• Phylotrack: C++ and Python libraries for in silico phylogenetic tracking
  15 May 2024 1 repository listed
  Both components supply a public-facing API to attach phylogenetic tracking to digital evolution systems, as well as a stand-alone interface for measuring a variety of popular phylogenetic topology metrics.
• Methods to Estimate Cryptic Sequence Complexity
  16 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Complexity is a signature quality of interest in artificial life systems.
• Discovering Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata using Diversity Search
  14 Feb 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 4 of 4 samples · 0 unverified
  The research field of Artificial Life studies how life-like phenomena such as autopoiesis, agency, or self-regulation can self-organize in computer simulations.
• Capturing Emerging Complexity in Lenia
  16 May 2023 1 repository listed
  The platform is important as a tool for studying artificial life and evolution, as it provides a scalable and flexible environment for creating a diverse range of organisms with varying abilities and behaviors.
• Flow-Lenia: Towards open-ended evolution in cellular automata through mass conservation and parameter localization
  14 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  Finally, we show that Flow Lenia enables the integration of the parameters of the CA update rules within the CA dynamics, making them dynamic and localized, allowing for multi-species simulations, with locally coherent…
• Scaling up the self-optimization model by means of on-the-fly computation of weights
  3 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  The Self-Optimization (SO) model is a useful computational model for investigating self-organization in "soft" Artificial life (ALife) as it has been shown to be general enough to model various complex adaptive systems.
• Shape Change and Control of Pressure-based Soft Agents
  1 May 2022 1 repository listed
  Biological agents possess bodies that are mostly of soft tissues.
• Plasticity and evolvability under environmental variability: the joint role of fitness-based selection and niche-limited competition
  17 Feb 2022 1 repository listed
  In this work, we study the interplay between environmental dynamics and adaptation in a minimal model of the evolution of plasticity and evolvability.
• Evolutionary Generation of Visual Motion Illusions
  25 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  Why do we sometimes perceive static images as if they were moving?
• Ousiometrics and Telegnomics: The essence of meaning conforms to a two-dimensional powerful-weak and dangerous-safe framework with diverse corpora presenting a safety bias
  13 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  We define `ousiometrics' to be the study of essential meaning in whatever context that meaningful signals are communicated, and `telegnomics' as the study of remotely sensed knowledge.
• Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Geometric, Variational, and Evolutionary Implications of Criteria for Tag Affinity
  10 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Genetic programming and artificial life systems commonly employ tag-matching schemes to determine interactions between model components.
• SignalGP-Lite: Event Driven Genetic Programming Library for Large-Scale Artificial Life Applications
  1 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  Event-driven genetic programming representations have been shown to outperform traditional imperative representations on interaction-intensive problems.
• Carle's Game: An Open-Ended Challenge in Exploratory Machine Creativity
  13 Jul 2021 1 repository listed
  It is also an invitation to Carle's Game, a challenge in open-ended machine exploration and creativity.
• QKSA: Quantum Knowledge Seeking Agent
  3 Jul 2021 1 repository listed
  In this article we present the motivation and the core thesis towards the implementation of a Quantum Knowledge Seeking Agent (QKSA).
• Modelling SARS-CoV-2 coevolution with genetic algorithms
  24 Feb 2021 1 repository listed
  At the end of 2020, policy responses to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak have been shaken by the emergence of virus variants, impacting public health and policy measures worldwide.
• Co-generation of game levels and game-playing agents
  16 Jul 2020 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper introduces a POET-Inspired Neuroevolutionary System for KreativitY (PINSKY) in games, which co-generates levels for multiple video games and agents that play them.
• Artificial Life in Game Mods for Intuitive Evolution Education
  7 Jul 2020 1 repository listed
  The understanding and acceptance of evolution by natural selection has become a difficult issue in many parts of the world, particularly the United States of America.
• Open Questions in Creating Safe Open-ended AI: Tensions Between Control and Creativity
  12 Jun 2020 1 repository listed
  This paper proposes that open-ended evolution and artificial life have much to contribute towards the understanding of open-ended AI, focusing here in particular on the safety of open-ended search.
• Combinatory Chemistry: Towards a Simple Model of Emergent Evolution
  17 Mar 2020 1 repository listed
  An explanatory model for the emergence of evolvable units must display emerging structures that (1) preserve themselves in time (2) self-reproduce and (3) tolerate a certain amount of variation when reproducing.

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