no code implementations • 1 Dec 2022 • Manuel Baltieri, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Olaf Witkowski, Lana Sinapayen, Keisuke Suzuki
Artificial life is a research field studying what processes and properties define life, based on a multidisciplinary approach spanning the physical, natural and computational sciences.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2022 • Alyssa M Adams, Javier Fernandez, Olaf Witkowski
Lately, studying social dynamics in interacting agents has been boosted by the power of computer models, which bring the richness of qualitative work, while offering the precision, transparency, extensiveness, and replicability of statistical and mathematical approaches.
2 code implementations • 28 Jun 2021 • Kevin Frans, L. B. Soros, Olaf Witkowski
This work presents CLIPDraw, an algorithm that synthesizes novel drawings based on natural language input.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2021 • Kevin Frans, L. B. Soros, Olaf Witkowski
Inspired by natural evolution, evolutionary search algorithms have proven remarkably capable due to their dual abilities to radiantly explore through diverse populations and to converge to adaptive pressures.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Kevin Frans, Olaf Witkowski
Meta-learning models, or models that learn to learn, have been a long-desired target for their ability to quickly solve new tasks.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2019 • Olaf Witkowski, Takashi Ikegami
We propose an approach of open-ended evolution via the simulation of swarm dynamics.
2 code implementations • 14 Dec 2016 • Nicholas Guttenberg, Nathaniel Virgo, Olaf Witkowski, Hidetoshi Aoki, Ryota Kanai
The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries of the image domain.