Reasoning with Neural Cellular Automata
Quick summary
arXiv:2609.36126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI architectures used to solve visual reasoning tasks typically rely heavily on global connectivity and synchronization. As biological systems demonstrate, though, sophisticated computation can be performed in a more decentralized fashion. In this work, we test the reasoning capabilities of Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs), networks of recurrent cells that use strictly local connectivity and asynchronous updates. NCAs have been extensively studied in artificial life experiments, but it is unclear whether they can perform complex multi-ste
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.36126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI architectures used to solve visual reasoning tasks typically rely heavily on global connectivity and synchronization.
- As biological systems demonstrate, though, sophisticated computation can be performed in a more decentralized fashion.
- In this work, we test the reasoning capabilities of Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs), networks of recurrent cells that use strictly local connectivity and asynchronous updates.
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