q-bio.PE · 2026-09-18 · No. 117

Populations and Evolution, 2026-09-18.

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01 — The papers

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    Self-Replicating Neural Cellular Automata: Quantifying Emergent Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity in an OpenEnded Substrate

    Sanyam Jain, Felix Simon Reimers, Stefano Nichele

    q-bio.PE · cs.LG · cs.NE

    We study an in-silico substrate in which every pixel of a two-channel cellular-automata grid carries a tiny neural network (an agent) that senses its Moore neighborhood. A cell persists only by self-replication: a living neighbor is cloned and its weights are mutated by a uniform perturbation, so that phenotype (cell state) is driven entirely by genotype (network weights). From a handful of seeded founders the system grows into a spatially...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.19902 · PDF

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