Clément Moulin-Frier
clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social
Clément Moulin-Frier
@clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social
Researcher at Inria. Simulating the origins of life, cognition and culture. Using methods from ALife and AI.

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=rBnV60QAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

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Discovering and Controlling Diverse Self-Organized Patterns in Cellular Automata Using Autotelic Reinforcement Learning

developmentalsystems.org/rl-for-ca/

Authors: @mcvjetko.bsky.social (attending), @hamongautier.bsky.social and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social
Curiosity-driven exploration of Flow Lenia universes: Bootstrapping open-ended evolution
developmentalsystems.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Expedition & Expansion: Leveraging Semantic Representations for Goal-Directed Exploration in Continuous Cellular Automata

developmentalsystems.org/expedition_e...

S. Khajehabdollahi and @mcvjetko.bsky.social (both attending), @hamongautier.bsky.social @ccolas.bsky.social @pyoudeyer.bsky.social
Semantic Goal Exploration in Flow-Lenia with Curiosity-driven AI and Foundation Models
Automated discovery of diverse behaviours in Flow-Lenia using AI-driven exploration. Features interactive visualization of discovered behaviours.
developmentalsystems.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Exploring Flow-Lenia Universes with a Curiosity-driven AI Scientist: Discovering Diverse Ecosystem Dynamics

developmentalsystems.org/Exploring-Fl...

Authors: @thomas-michel.bsky.social and @mcvjetko.bsky.social (both attending), @hamongautier.bsky.social and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social
Exploring Flow-Lenia Universes with Curiosity-driven AI
Automated discovery of diverse ecosystem dynamics in Flow-Lenia using AI-driven exploration. Features interactive visualization of 2000+ discovered evolutionary patterns.
developmentalsystems.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
On the same topic:
How many people are needed for starting a Revolution?
by Mehdi Moussaïd from Max Planck Institute.
The video is in French by auto-translated subtitles work quite well on youtube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1q...
Combien faut-il de personnes pour lancer UNE RÉVOLUTION ? ✊✊✊
YouTube video by Fouloscopie
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Here is the talk outline:
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
With an interactive website to explore these universes: developmentalsystems.org/Exploring-Fl...
Curiosity-driven exploration of Flow Lenia universes: Bootstrapping open-ended evolution
developmentalsystems.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you want to follow all research from the Flowers group, here is a starter pack:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For the record, Max Taylor-Davies was able to complete this full project, from idea to paper, in only a 3-month research visit at the Flowers AI and CogSci Lab at Inria. He's nominated for the best student paper award. Max is not yet on Bluesky, here is his X account:
x.com/MaxTaylorDav...
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As well as serving as a methodological demonstration for how kin selection and inclusive fitness can be studied using neuroevolution of simulated agents, we believe that our results may have some broader theoretical implications, as explained in this snapshot of the paper discussion:
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We show that this is sufficient to evolve altruistic feeding behavior, especially towards kins: hence emergent kin selection
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In this new paper, we simply add to this previous model:
- An additional action to feed another agent
- An additional observation indicating if another agent is an offspring
- An infancy period where an agent has reduced abilities
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In this paper, we leverage the Non-Episodic Neuro-Evolution framework we developed with @hamongautier.bsky.social and Eleni Nisioti to study eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Illustrated in the fig. below, summarized in this thread: x.com/ClemMoulinFr... , see this paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
April 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM