Discovering and Controlling Diverse Self-Organized Patterns in Cellular Automata Using Autotelic Reinforcement Learning https://t.co/x4ff5wOoFp Authors: @marko_cvjetko (attending), @hamongautier and @pyoudeyer

Expedition & Expansion: Leveraging Semantic Representations for Goal-Directed Exploration in Continuous Cellular Automata https://t.co/ZlIc3KprOZ @sinak12345 and @marko_cvjetko (both attending), @hamongautier @cedcolas @pyoudeyer

Exploring Flow-Lenia Universes with a Curiosity-driven AI Scientist: Discovering Diverse Ecosystem Dynamics https://t.co/OeuavCI0zv Authors: Thomas Michel and @marko_cvjetko (both attending), @hamongautier and @pyoudeyer

3 papers from @FlowersINRIA are presented this week at the @ALifeConf , 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 @ARTL_journal , with more experiments and insights! See 🧵 from 1st-author @eplantec below for a summary. For a full overview of @FlowersINRIA research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at @Demeco2025 : https://t.co/vUXu4EjfCf

we're trying out a new paper discussion format — a self-hosted talk and discussion come chat about MAGELLAN, a meta-cognitive module allowing autotelic agents to predict their progress on unseen tasks, scaling auto-curricula to much larger goal spaces on july 2nd, info 👇

Our paper received the EvoApps best paper AND the EvoStar best student paper @EvostarConf :) Congrats to @MaxTaylorDavie1 @hamongautier @TimotheBoulet from @FlowersINRIA !! Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution https://t.co/BUUslHeVrH

i just got an art grant from the council for the arts at MIT! *Tangible Dreams* will let visitors experiment and play with a physical neural network generating images real-time—by twisting knobs and switches, by reconnecting nodes together @ArtsatMIT

For the record, @MaxTaylorDavie1 was able to complete this full project, from idea to paper, in only a 3-month research visit at @FlowersINRIA . He's nominated for the best student paper award. Highly recommended student!!

But come on academia, let's all move to Bluesky. The transition from X is easy with https://t.co/LSemsKwPbD Here is my account:

For a summary, see my post on Bluesky. It's visible without an account: https://t.co/0KC4MKfjMO

I used https://t.co/LSemsKwPbD to make the transition, it works well

I've finally managed to move to #BlueSky , find me here:

Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & @ALifeConf communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence Call for papers https://t.co/I5IAFMfXe9 |Deadline: May 4th

Github repo:

The new API will also enable the modular composition of ALife systems. Here is a teaser simulation, where #Braitenberg vehicles (from 1984) interact with Particle #Lenia (from 2022 @zzznah ) https://t.co/ea6w7JttIm

This is still an alpha version. We plan to release a new version in the next month or so. It will focus on a more intuitive low-level API and improved performance for research applications, enabling to simulate tens of thousands of interacting entities on GPU.

The current version mostly focuses on teaching applications, thanks to the amazing job of @corentinlger over the last year. It includes 6 ready-to-use hands-on notebook sessions, targeted to interdisciplinary students (not only CS students).

Glad to release v0.1.0 of Vivarium: a 2D #multiagent simulator with a #JAX-based physics engine. It enables both large-scale simulations for research applications and real-time interaction in #Jupyter Notebooks for teaching in #ALIFE / #AI. See quoted thread below for detail

Can we study gene regulatory networks from a behavioralist perspective, as "agents" navigating in transcriptional space? Our new paper at @eLife explores this approach combining @drmichaellevin 's vision on basal cognition with @FlowersINRIA 's automated discovery algorithms.