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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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...
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!
Everything reminds me of #TCTeAC
When are we doing this again?
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:
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
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
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
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/...
doi.org
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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 ...
New #preprint - @bhartl.bsky.social , Léo Pio-Lopez
arxiv.org/abs/2509.11131
"Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
Official version is out - aging as loss of goal-directedness:
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@bhartl.bsky.social
Léo Pio-Lopez
Mike Levin
Mike Levin
Mike Levin
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
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Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update rul...
