New video: Asexual vs Sexual reproduction in an Artificial Life Biome.

Now I share the struggle of several ALife researchers in finding places where sexual reproduction helps...

youtube.com/watch?v=wA_sj7…

What are good papers as an introduction to Origin of Life research? (New, old, doesn't matter). Bonus points if they show actual simulations!!

New SwissGL demo: Firefly Synchronization google.github.io/swissgl/#Firef…

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.

What if we could learn cellular automata models of biological pattern formation directly from data? New preprint by Alex Richardson, Tibor Antal, Richard Blythe, and myself: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14809

New video is out! How does Biomaker CA work??
As usual, any feedback is appreciated. And what would you like to see next? Experiments? Hands-on tutorials? Both?

youtube.com/watch?v=I2gkH1…

Introducing Neural Developmental Programs (NDPs)🧬🧠Instead of neural networks with fixed architectures, we allow neural networks to grow through a dynamic self-organizing process, inspired by how biological nervous systems develop👇

PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2307.08197

I started a YouTube channel focused on ALIFE. The first video is an introduction of Biomaker CA. I Hope you like it! And if you do, perhaps drop a like and/or subscribe :) youtube.com/watch?v=iqsGs-…

Better understanding the exceptional abilities of transformers is fundamental to making them more efficient and effective.

Our pre-print is a an in depth look at mesa-optimisation - the process we think underpins in-context learning - including results on language.

youtu.be/jKt1Jq4FMRg

Here is my first SwissGL tutorial on YouTube! It shows how to create a variant of a beautiful animation by Artem Kirsanov starting from an empty browser window.

Our work on Pathfinding Neural Cellular Automata with Local Self-Attention is available here zenodo.org/record/8275851
(Co-authored by Felix Reimers, Sanyam Jain, Aarati Shrestha and myself) #NCA #AUTOMATA2023 Høgskolen i Østfold OsloMet (thanks to NORA.ai and #HIDA for mobility funding)

Finally ready to share Biomaker CA, a Biome Maker project using Neural Cellular Automata. w/ Alex Mordvintsev See live article google-research.github.io/self-organisin… (with lots of videos) and arxiv paper arxiv.org/abs/2307.09320. 1/N

New article: 'Isotropic Neural Cellular Automata', a review of our previous work on making NCAs rotation and reflection equivariant
Ettore Randazzo Eyvind Niklasson Craig Fouts
google-research.github.io/self-organisin…

Computer science that you can touch?

If you're in ZRH, come and check out our nuru.nu Seli installation tonight at the D18 Art&Tech Show in Rote Fabrik, to experience the wonderful NCA work from Alex Mordvintsev Eyvind Niklasson Ettore Randazzo Michael Levin

Go jpeg xl! Make the world beautiful, detailed, vivid, rich and authentic! ❤️❤️❤️

llama.cpp is a triumph of minimalism, that reminds us how useful it is to throw away the crust and start from the blank canvas. First dependencies serve you, then they slow you.

znah.net/icra23/

New SwissGL example 'ReactionDiffusion' combines RD field with the scatter-plot phase diagram of individual cell states, giving a different perspective on RD dynamics
google.github.io/swissgl/#React…