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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Discovering and Controlling Diverse Self-Organized Patterns in Cellular Automata Using Autotelic Reinforcement Learning developmentalsystems.org/rl-for-ca/ Authors: @mcvjetko.bsky.social (attending), @hamongautier.bsky.social and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social

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Curiosity-driven exploration of Flow Lenia universes: Bootstrapping open-ended evolution

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

3 papers from @flowersinria team are presented this week at the @alife2025.bsky.social , leveraging curiosity-driven AI to explore complex behaviors in #Lenia All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them. Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

On the same topic: How many people are needed for starting a Revolution? by Mehdi Moussaïd from Max Planck Institute. The video is in French by auto-translated subtitles work quite well on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1q...

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Combien faut-il de personnes pour lancer UNE RÉVOLUTION ? ✊✊✊

YouTube video by Fouloscopie

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Extended Flow-Lenia paper is out in the ALife journal, with more experiments and insights! See 🧵 from 1st-author @eplantec.bsky.social for a summary. For a full overview of our research in Artificial Life, here is a talk I gave at the Demeco workshop at EPFL : youtube.com/watch?v=YYFr...

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Clément Moulin-Frier -- Self-Organization of Agents and Ecosystems from Scratch in (Flow-)Lenia

YouTube video by Demeco

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Le potentiel artistique de (Flow-)Lenia en particulier, et de la simulation de systèmes complexes en général, est considérable. Une belle démonstration actuellement au Jeu de Paume à Paris, par Samuel Bianchini et collègues. Et notre dernier papier, Flow-Lenia Universes : arxiv.org/abs/2505.15998

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Exploring Flow-Lenia Universes with a Curiosity-driven AI Scientist: Discovering Diverse Ecosystem Dynamics

We present a method for the automated discovery of system-level dynamics in Flow-Lenia--a continuous cellular automaton (CA) with mass conservation and parameter localization-using a curiosity--driven...

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The #Demeco workshop has kicked off with a great introductory talk from @bertchakovsky.bsky.social on #Lenia and variants. I'll present recent progress from Inria Flowers Tuesday at 10:20 www.dem.eco

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Published my WebGPU Particle Life simulation online! Obviously it requires WebGPU support, and it's quite resource-demanding, so I've set the particle count to 64k for now. Also it probably doesn't work on mobile; will fix later. Enjoy: lisyarus.github.io/webgpu/parti...

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Particle Life 2D

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Cool videos from our new paper applying Diversity Search to Flow-Lenia to explore a vast space of eco-evolutionary dynamics. Preprint paper, dataset and online visualization tool soon available, stay tuned! I'll present this and other Lenia experiments on May 27 at www.dem.eco #ALife #Open-endedness

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DEMECO 2025 | Artificial Life Perspectives

Detection and Emergence of Complexity (DEMECO) 2025 - An workshop on Artificial Life perspectives at EPFL, Lausanne.

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our paper "When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cumulative Changes and Attractors in Iterated Cultural Transmissions"is presented at ICLR by @gaiamolinaro.bsky.social (below). Summary of method and findings, in this X thread by Jeremy Perez: x.com/Jeremy__Pere... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.04503

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

If you want to follow all research from the Flowers group, here is a starter pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

For the record, Max Taylor-Davies was able to complete this full project, from idea to paper, in only a 3-month research visit at the Flowers AI and CogSci Lab at Inria. He's nominated for the best student paper award. Max is not yet on Bluesky, here is his X account: x.com/MaxTaylorDav...

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

As well as serving as a methodological demonstration for how kin selection and inclusive fitness can be studied using neuroevolution of simulated agents, we believe that our results may have some broader theoretical implications, as explained in this snapshot of the paper discussion:

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We show that this is sufficient to evolve altruistic feeding behavior, especially towards kins: hence emergent kin selection

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In this new paper, we simply add to this previous model: - An additional action to feed another agent - An additional observation indicating if another agent is an offspring - An infancy period where an agent has reduced abilities

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In this paper, we leverage the Non-Episodic Neuro-Evolution framework we developed with @hamongautier.bsky.social and Eleni Nisioti to study eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Illustrated in the fig. below, summarized in this thread: x.com/ClemMoulinFr... , see this paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Max Taylor-Davies will present our new paper at the Evostar conference on Thursday: Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536 A joint work with @hamongautier.bsky.social , Timothé Boulet and myself. A quick summary below:

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Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding via non-episodic neuroevolution

Kin selection theory has proven to be a popular and widely accepted account of how altruistic behaviour can evolve under natural selection. Hamilton's rule, first published in 1964, has since been exp...

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