Marko Cvjetko
@mcvjetko.bsky.social
PhD student at Flowers Inria, focusing on open-ended evolution in cellular automata
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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:
All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.
Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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:
All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.
Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:
Lenia forest fire model
September 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Lenia forest fire model
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
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 ⛩️
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 ⛩️
September 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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 ⛩️
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 ⛩️
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
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"
"What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life"
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...
arxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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"
"What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life"
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
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
Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536
May 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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
Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536
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
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
May 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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
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
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
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...
This month we have a TON of ALife videos, 2 paper reviews, an amazing simulation and MORE!
alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...
May 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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...
This month we have a TON of ALife videos, 2 paper reviews, an amazing simulation and MORE!
alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
SCHC officially published
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...
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...
ieeexplore.ieee.org
May 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
SCHC officially published
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Complex cell-like structures in Flow Lenia
April 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Complex cell-like structures in Flow Lenia
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
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
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
Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)
Important dates:
Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025
Author Notification: TBA
sites.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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
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
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
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From interstellar dust to habitable planets and the conditions for life.
Interdisciplinary lectures with perspectives from astronomy, cosmochemistry, geology, and astrobiology.
For more see: www.dust2dna.dk
PhD-summer school at the Globe Institute, UCPH 18-22 August.
From interstellar dust to habitable planets and the conditions for life.
Interdisciplinary lectures with perspectives from astronomy, cosmochemistry, geology, and astrobiology.
For more see: www.dust2dna.dk
Reposted by Marko Cvjetko
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the A.M. Turing Award for developing the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning, a key method behind many major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. 🧵
March 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Flowlenia with local update rules
March 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Flowlenia with local update rules