Goal-Guided Neural Cellular Automata: Learning to Control Self-Organising Systems. (arXiv:2205.06806v1 [cs.NE])

Inspired by cellular growth and self-organization, Neural Cellular Automata
(NCAs) have been capable of "growing" artificial cells into images, 3D
structures, and even functional machines. NCAs are flexible and robust
computational systems but -- similarly to many other self-organizing systems --
inherently uncontrollable during and after their growth process. We present an
approach to control these type of systems called Goal-Guided Neural Cellular
Automata (GoalNCA), which leverages goal encodings to control cell behavior
dynamically at every step of cellular growth. …

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