论文标题
莱尼亚和扩大宇宙
Lenia and Expanded Universe
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论文摘要
我们报告了Lenia的实验扩展，Lenia是一种连续的细胞自动机族，能够产生栩栩如生的自治模式。 Lenia的规则被普遍存在较高的维度，多个内核和多个通道。最终的体系结构接近可以看作是一个经常性的卷积神经网络。使用半自动搜索，例如遗传算法，我们发现了新现象，例如多面体对称性，个性，自我复制，发射，摄入的生长，并看到了具有内部分裂和类型分化的“虚拟真核生物”的出现。我们在生物学，人造生命和人工智能的背景下讨论结果。
We report experimental extensions of Lenia, a continuous cellular automata family capable of producing lifelike self-organizing autonomous patterns. The rule of Lenia was generalized into higher dimensions, multiple kernels, and multiple channels. The final architecture approaches what can be seen as a recurrent convolutional neural network. Using semi-automatic search e.g. genetic algorithm, we discovered new phenomena like polyhedral symmetries, individuality, self-replication, emission, growth by ingestion, and saw the emergence of "virtual eukaryotes" that possess internal division of labor and type differentiation. We discuss the results in the contexts of biology, artificial life, and artificial intelligence.
