Differentiable Self-organizing Systems

Autonomous Agents on the Web Community Group,

Hello. I am pleased to share with the group some hyperlinks on the topics of differentiable self-organizing systems (https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/).


Self-organising Neural Cellular Automata
Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson, Peter Whidden, Michael Levin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unF2CVkMIiE (4:08)



Growing Neural Cellular Automata
Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson, Michael Levin

"Building their own bodies is the very first skill all living creatures possess. How can we design systems that grow, maintain and repair themselves by regenerating damages? This work investigates morphogenesis, the process by which living creatures self-assemble their bodies. It proposes a differentiable, Cellular Automata model of morphogenesis and shows how such a model learns a robust and persistent set of dynamics to grow any arbitrary structure starting from a single cell."

https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/



Self-classifying MNIST Digits
Ettore Randazzo, Alexander Mordvintsev, Eyvind Niklasson, Michael Levin, Sam Greydanus

"This work presents a follow up to Growing Neural CAs, using a similar computational model for the goal of digit 'self-classification'. The authors show how neural CAs can self-classify the MNIST digit they form. The resulting CAs can be interacted with by dynamically changing the underlying digit. The CAs respond to perturbations with a learned self-correcting classification behaviour."

https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/mnist/



Best regards,
Adam Sobieski