Iliya Zhechev

Big shoutout to @csengepetak.bsky.social and @fornavnefternavn.bsky.social — incredible teammates who made the whole experience a blast!

08.02.2026 11:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is life?
- I know it when I see it
How does life look like... from the point of view of Information Theory?
- Some machinery that preserves information in a noisy environment.
Can we model that with an NCA?

🛝 Google Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

08.02.2026 11:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At @aliceworkshop.org I convinced some brilliant people to to work on my idea 💪

Artificial Life in Cellular Encoding: optimizing NCAs to preserve information in noisy environments 🎯

Code: github.com/ichko/vitasc...

08.02.2026 11:42 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Had such a great time at this weeks @aliceworkshop.org in Copenhagen. Looking forward to next year's edition!

08.02.2026 11:06 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I can’t wait! I love discussion and project based workshops ✨

28.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

First day of the @alife2025.bsky.social conference was fun! Our @eralife.bsky.social workshop was a success. Thanks to @risi.bsky.social, @bhartl.bsky.social, and @zzznah.bsky.social for their talks! After we checked out the local cuisine with @ilzhechev.bsky.social.

#ALIFE25 #ERA

06.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If you are attending @alife2025.bsky.social next week you shouldn’t miss our workshop on Monday! Besides the opportunity to share an exciting idea or a (research) project you’ve been working on, we’ll have talks by @risi.bsky.social and @bhartl.bsky.social giving some career insights. 😮
#ALIFE2025

30.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to my co-author @haraldludwig.bsky.social for this collaboration! Check out the poster: 🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/12lJF...

25.03.2025 12:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Effectively implementing an embodied form of autoencoding as coined by @stenichele.bsky.social.

The system demonstrates robust generalization between training and validation sets, suggesting reliable learning of the underlying computational principles.

25.03.2025 12:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Picture of the Embodied Autoencoder Poster

🪧 Last week we presented a poster at #SSCI2025: "Embodied Autoencoding Through Neural Cellular Automata".

We show that NCAs can learn to compress, transport, and reconstruct complex patterns through extreme spatial bottlenecks using only local interactions.

25.03.2025 12:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1