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Disentangling five dimensions of animacy in human brain and behaviour by Jozwik, Kamila M., Najarro, Elias, van den Bosch, Jasper J. F., Charest, Ian, Cichy, Radoslaw M., Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus

“…Distinguishing animate from inanimate things is of great behavioural importance. Despite distinct brain and behavioural responses to animate and inanimate…”
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Sparse Firing in a Hybrid Central Pattern Generator for Spinal Motor Circuits by Strohmer, Beck, Najarro, Elias, Ausborn, Jessica, Berg, Rune W, Tolu, Silvia

“…Central pattern generators are circuits generating rhythmic movements, such as walking. The majority of existing computational models of these circuits produce…”
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Meta-Learning through Hebbian Plasticity in Random Networks by Najarro, Elias, Risi, Sebastian

“…Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2020) Lifelong learning and adaptability are two defining aspects of biological agents. Modern reinforcement…”
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Towards Self-Assembling Artificial Neural Networks through Neural Developmental Programs by Najarro, Elias, Sudhakaran, Shyam, Risi, Sebastian

“…Biological nervous systems are created in a fundamentally different way than current artificial neural networks. Despite its impressive results in a variety of…”
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Goal-Guided Neural Cellular Automata: Learning to Control Self-Organising Systems by Sudhakaran, Shyam, Najarro, Elias, Risi, Sebastian

“…Inspired by cellular growth and self-organization, Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) have been capable of "growing" artificial cells into images, 3D structures,…”
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Testing the Genomic Bottleneck Hypothesis in Hebbian Meta-Learning by Palm, Rasmus Berg, Najarro, Elias, Risi, Sebastian

“…Hebbian meta-learning has recently shown promise to solve hard reinforcement learning problems, allowing agents to adapt to some degree to changes in the…”
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HyperNCA: Growing Developmental Networks with Neural Cellular Automata by Najarro, Elias, Sudhakaran, Shyam, Glanois, Claire, Risi, Sebastian

“…In contrast to deep reinforcement learning agents, biological neural networks are grown through a self-organized developmental process. Here we propose a new…”
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MarioGPT: Open-Ended Text2Level Generation through Large Language Models by Sudhakaran, Shyam, González-Duque, Miguel, Glanois, Claire, Freiberger, Matthias, Najarro, Elias, Risi, Sebastian

“…Procedural Content Generation (PCG) is a technique to generate complex and diverse environments in an automated way. However, while generating content with PCG…”
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From Text to Life: On the Reciprocal Relationship between Artificial Life and Large Language Models by Nisioti, Eleni, Glanois, Claire, Najarro, Elias, Dai, Andrew, Meyerson, Elliot, Pedersen, Joachim Winther, Teodorescu, Laetitia, Hayes, Conor F, Sudhakaran, Shyam, Risi, Sebastian

“…Large Language Models (LLMs) have taken the field of AI by storm, but their adoption in the field of Artificial Life (ALife) has been, so far, relatively…”
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A Unified Substrate for Body-Brain Co-evolution by Pontes-Filho, Sidney, Walker, Kathryn, Najarro, Elias, Nichele, Stefano, Risi, Sebastian

“…The discovery of complex multicellular organism development took millions of years of evolution. The genome of such a multicellular organism guides the…”
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Growing 3D Artefacts and Functional Machines with Neural Cellular Automata by Sudhakaran, Shyam, Grbic, Djordje, Li, Siyan, Katona, Adam, Najarro, Elias, Glanois, Claire, Risi, Sebastian

“…Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021) Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) have been proven effective in simulating morphogenetic…”
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EvoCraft: A New Challenge for Open-Endedness by Grbic, Djordje, Palm, Rasmus Berg, Najarro, Elias, Glanois, Claire, Risi, Sebastian

“…This paper introduces EvoCraft, a framework for Minecraft designed to study open-ended algorithms. We introduce an API that provides an open-source Python…”
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