Everything reminds me of #TCTeAC
When are we doing this again?
New preprint with a brilliant team of quantum chemists from @tuwien.at
(A. Adel, J. Szmitek, R. Wanzenböck, G. Madsen):
Guided adaptive diffusion: An evolutionary framework for multi-modal atomistic structure prediction
doi.org/10.26434/che...
HADES 4 materials discovery!
Excited to announce our new review on
"Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
is out in Physics of Life Reviews
doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...
... work with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Leo Pio-Lopez
doi.org
Ben Hartl
Ben Hartl
Ben Hartl
Call for papers for 'Artificial Life for Science and Engineering' at ALife 26.
We seek work applying ALife concepts and tools to model real-world systems and engineer solutions — and assist scientific discovery through open-ended and curiosity-driven search.
Call info: alifeforscience.github.io
What are the preferences of novel in silico and in vivo agents that aren't directly engineered toward a specific set of behaviors? An example, from the world of Lenia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia) - here's our #preprint on agnosiophobia (avoidance of the unknown):
arxiv.org/abs/2605.30708
1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session
📍June 27, 18:00 BST on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7
This work bridges generative #AI and evolutionary biology by integrating diffusion models into evolutionary optimization frameworks like HADES. 🤖
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Final version is out:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEoa5bD-s...
"Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
@bhartl.bsky.social
Léo Pio-Lopez
Elias Najarro
Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life
Official version is out - aging as loss of goal-directedness:
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@bhartl.bsky.social
Léo Pio-Lopez
New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2601.14096
@chrisfields38.bsky.social
@bhartl.bsky.social
Leo Pio-Lopez
"Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: a fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems"
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New #preprint - @bhartl.bsky.social , Léo Pio-Lopez
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11131
"Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
New #preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2604.01932
"BraiNCA: brain-inspired neural cellular automata and applications to morphogenesis and motor control"
@bhartl.bsky.social and Leo Pio-Lopez:
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The emerging field of diverse intelligence seeks an integrated view of problem-solving in agents of very different provenance, composition, and substrates. From subcellular chemical networks to swarms...
Most of the Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) defined in the literature have a common theme: they are based on regular grids with a Moore neighborhood (one-hop neighbour). They do not take into account ...
