Growing Neural Cellular Automata

(distill.pub)

73 points | by pulkitsh1234 2 days ago ago

6 comments

  • hypnodrones 6 hours ago

    For a split second there I believed there is a new Distill publication! Their articles were the most inspirational and eye-opening resource on my beginnings of ML journey, the quality of visualizations definitely made lasting impact on my mental models of _what is going on_.

    My favourite goes definitely to The Building Blocks of Interpretability (https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/), those images landed in a lot of my university presentations and the dog made everyone immediately interested ;-)

  • rahen 5 hours ago

    There is ongoing research on neural cellular automata, as they seem to be a very efficient way to generate pretraining tokens: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.10055v1

  • ticulatedspline 2 hours ago

    Morphogenesis data compression is pretty impressive, the human genome is only ~700Mb of data.

    • api 2 hours ago

      Ahh but it requires the laws of physics as a runtime.

  • smusamashah 5 hours ago

    This has been shared a few times here. It looks cool but I don't understand the usefulness of this tech. This is likely a demo to show some capability, what that is though I don't understand.

    • pulkitsh1234 5 hours ago

      well it attempts to explain how individual cells can combine to create complex creatures (like a lizard) AND how the creature can have features like healing, regeneration, etc.