Marko Cvjetko

3 papers from @flowersinria team are presented this week at the @alife2025.bsky.social , leveraging curiosity-driven AI to explore complex behaviors in #Lenia

All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.

Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:

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Lenia forest fire model

15.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho

Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...

See you in Kyoto ⛩️

10.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...

New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849 : Reed Bender (www.linkedin.com/in/reed-bend...), Karina Kofman (www.linkedin.com/in/karina-ko...), @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
"What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life"

23.05.2025 04:52 — 👍 50    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 4

Very happy that our paper received both the EvoApps best paper and the EvoStar best student paper! Congrats team!!

Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536

12.05.2025 15:45 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Another one.

09.05.2025 21:19 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Here is a cool Flow-Lenia simulation, which is a continuous cellular automaton with two distinct features:
1. Mass conservation - sum of all activations is constant through time
2. Localized update rules - enables simulations with differently behaving matter on the same grid

09.05.2025 21:17 — 👍 18    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

crazy! What gpu do you use to run it?

06.05.2025 14:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Simulation Project: "What if Eye?" Summary by Claus The MIT Media Lab, Camera Culture group, has recently published a project called "What if Eye?". This project aims to computationally simulate the evolution of visual systems, from early light sensors to fully fledged lensed eyes.

ALife Videos Shared by Lana In this edition we have collected quite a few interesting videos, here they all are for your viewing pleasure! "The Physics of Living Systems" with Chris Kempes for "Reason with Science"

A long list of Conferences and Calls

The 21st edition of the #ALife newsletter is out!

This month we have a TON of ALife videos, 2 paper reviews, an amazing simulation and MORE!

alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...

05.05.2025 21:47 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Cool! How many timesteps per second do you hope to achieve?

05.05.2025 21:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Structural Cellular Hash Chemistry Hash Chemistry, a minimalistic artificial chemistry model of open-ended evolution, has recently been extended to non-spatial and cellular versions. The non-spatial version successfully demonstrated co...

SCHC officially published
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...

01.05.2025 18:53 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ever wonder what a neural network would look like in a novel organism w/o selection for specific structure and function? New #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

20.04.2025 19:30 — 👍 49    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

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08.04.2025 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Complex cell-like structures in Flow Lenia

02.04.2025 11:52 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA

Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠

An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.

Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th

31.03.2025 14:39 — 👍 28    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 2

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31.03.2025 11:16 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

28.03.2025 08:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is great news that Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton were awarded the #TuringAward 🚀

Thread 🧵

06.03.2025 11:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Flowlenia with local update rules

06.03.2025 13:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0