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:

Extended Flow-Lenia paper is out in the ALife journal, with more experiments and insights! See 🧵 from 1st-author @eplantec.bsky.social for a summary. For a full overview of our research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at the Demeco workshop at EPFL : youtube.com/watch?v=YYFr...

Clément Moulin-Frier -- Self-Organization of Agents and Ecosystems from Scratch in (Flow-)Lenia

YouTube video by Demeco

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Erwan Plantec@eplantec.bsky.social · last yr.

Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾 An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA ! If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper ! A 🧵

Le potentiel artistique de (Flow-)Lenia en particulier, et de la simulation de systèmes complexes en général, est considérable. Une belle démonstration actuellement au Jeu de Paume à Paris, par Samuel Bianchini et collègues. Et notre dernier papier, Flow-Lenia Universes : arxiv.org/abs/2505.15998

Exploring Flow-Lenia Universes with a Curiosity-driven AI Scientist: Discovering Diverse Ecosystem Dynamics

We present a method for the automated discovery of system-level dynamics in Flow-Lenia--a continuous cellular automaton (CA) with mass conservation and parameter localization-using a curiosity--driven...

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Antoine Blanchard@enroweb.com · last yr.

Le travail de Samuel Bianchini à partir des algorithmes de @pyoudeyer.bsky.social mis en lumière par le Jeu de paume dans son expo IA

The #Demeco workshop has kicked off with a great introductory talk from @bertchakovsky.bsky.social on #Lenia and variants. I'll present recent progress from Inria Flowers Tuesday at 10:20 www.dem.eco

Published my WebGPU Particle Life simulation online! Obviously it requires WebGPU support, and it's quite resource-demanding, so I've set the particle count to 64k for now. Also it probably doesn't work on mobile; will fix later. Enjoy: lisyarus.github.io/webgpu/parti...

Particle Life 2D

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Cool videos from our new paper applying Diversity Search to Flow-Lenia to explore a vast space of eco-evolutionary dynamics. Preprint paper, dataset and online visualization tool soon available, stay tuned! I'll present this and other Lenia experiments on May 27 at www.dem.eco #ALife #Open-endedness

Marko Cvjetko@mcvjetko.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

Kin selection theory has proven to be a popular and widely accepted account of how altruistic behaviour can evolve under natural selection. Hamilton's rule, first published in 1964, has since been exp...

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Clément Moulin-Frier@clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · last yr.

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:

Our paper "When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cumulative Changes and Attractors in Iterated Cultural Transmissions"is presented at ICLR by @gaiamolinaro.bsky.social (below). Summary of method and findings, in this X thread by Jeremy Perez: x.com/Jeremy__Pere... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.04503

Gaia Molinaro@gaiamolinaro.bsky.social · last yr.

What's wrong with evaluating #LLMs after a single interaction? Come find out @iclr-conf.bsky.social and learn how cultural attraction theory can help us do better. Poster #288, 10 am.

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:

Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding via non-episodic neuroevolution

Kin selection theory has proven to be a popular and widely accepted account of how altruistic behaviour can evolve under natural selection. Hamilton's rule, first published in 1964, has since been exp...

arxiv.org