FLOWERS is offering Master's internships! Jeremy Perez and I are supervising a project combining artificial life and cultural evolution. We are also offering a position continuing the team's research on discovering sensimotor agency in Lenia. Check all the topics below! flowers.inria.fr/jobs/
Marko Cvjetko
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:
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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 ⛩️
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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"
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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
Max Taylor-Davies will present our new paper at the Evostar conference on Thursday: Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536 A joint work with @hamongautier.bsky.social , Timothé Boulet and myself. A quick summary below:
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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...
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SCHC officially published ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109...
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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...
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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
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This is great news that Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton were awarded the #TuringAward 🚀 Thread 🧵
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. 🧵
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