| ▲ | hidelooktropic 6 hours ago |
| For the unfamiliar, could someone explain what I'm looking at? The abstract was a little too concrete (heh) for me to follow. |
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| ▲ | esychology 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you're familiar with CAs (e.g. Conway's Game of Life), you can think of a NeuralCA as a CA where the update rule is given by a neural network. Here we optimize the neural net weights so that it behaves a certain way (e.g. grow a lizard from a single seed). |
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| ▲ | flir 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | What are the inputs to the NN? The whole grid, or just nearby cells? What happens if two NNs overlap on the same grid? (Gonna go read the paper). | | |
| ▲ | esychology 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | The input to the NN is just the 3x3 neighborhood around a cell.
We can overlap two NNs on the same grid (through interpolation). Checkout https://meshnca.github.io
to see the effect. When the brush is in graft mode, it basically allows you to paint some regions that will follow a different NN rule. | | |
| ▲ | flir 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > The input to the NN is just the 3x3 neighborhood around a cell. Well that sounds like black magic. Nice. Thanks for the reply. | |
| ▲ | 0xdeadbeefbabe an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is each image a NN or is it one NN for all the images? |
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| ▲ | soraki_soladead 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The original NCA is probably a helpful intro:
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/ |
