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Sebastian Risi
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Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
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Harald M. Ludwig @haraldludwig.bsky.social · 8d
If you are attending @alife2025.bsky.social next week you shouldn’t miss our workshop on Monday! Besides the opportunity to share an exciting idea or a (research) project you’ve been working on, we’ll have talks by @risi.bsky.social and @bhartl.bsky.social giving some career insights. 😮
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Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life @eralife.bsky.social · 13d
Join ERA Workshop Lightning Talks⚡6th Oct!

Present your work!
This is your moment to shine ✨ (and maybe blow a few minds 💥).

It doesn’t have to be finished work: project, idea, early results, or just something you want to share! 🌱

👉 Sign up here and grab a slot:
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ERA Workshop Lightning Talks Registration
Event Timing: 06.10.2025 (during the ALIFE 25 conference) Contact us at [email protected]
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ALICE Workshop @aliceworkshop.org · 16d
We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February.

We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned!

Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 28d
We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho

Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...

See you in Kyoto ⛩️
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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Apr 29
The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE

Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏
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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Mar 31
Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠

An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.

Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)
Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA
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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · Mar 31
Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠

An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.

Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s)
Important dates: Submission Deadline: May 4th, 2025 Author Notification: TBA
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Joachim W Pedersen @joachimwpedersen.bsky.social · Mar 19
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnoa...
Bio-Inspired Plastic Neural Nets that continually adapt their own synaptic strengths can make for extremely robust locomotion policies!
Trained exclusively in simulation, the plastic networks transfer easily to the real world, even under various extra OOD situations.
[IROS25] Bio-Inspired Plastic Neural Nets for Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Robots
YouTube video by Worasuchad Haomachai
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Feb 10
First two days of the conference, if they didn’t change anything :) I’ll double check
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Joachim W Pedersen @joachimwpedersen.bsky.social · Feb 10
Join us for the Evolving Self-Organisation workshop at #GECCO this year! Great chance to submit your favourite ideas concerning self-organisation processes and evolution, and how they interact.
Relevant for Alifers #ALife and anyone interested in #evolution, #self-organisation, and #ComplexSystems.
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Feb 10
We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025!

Submission deadline: March 26, 2025

More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Feb 10
Organised by Ettore Randazzo, Eleni
Nisioti, Alex Mordvintsev, Joachim Winther Pedersen (@joachimwpedersen.bsky.social), Eyvind Niklasson and myself.
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Feb 10
haha, yes. I was waiting to get the bluesky tags of everybody
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Feb 10
We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025!

Submission deadline: March 26, 2025

More information: evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Jan 21
This was a great collaboration driven by Timothee Anne and Noah Syrkis (@syrkis.com) w/ Meriem Elhosni, Florian Turati, Franck Legendre, and Alain Jaquier.
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Jan 21
We also highlight critical limitations of current LLMs, including processing spatial visual information and formulating long-term strategic plans.

Beyond games, HIVE could be useful in other domains that require the coordinate of many agents, ranging from disaster response to urban planning.
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Jan 21
A promising but largely under-explored LLM use-case is to facilitate human coordination with many agents. HIVE enables users to command up to several thousand units by delegating the tedious task of assigning behaviors and objectives to each unit through a LLM.

PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2412.11761
Harnessing Language for Coordination: A Framework and Benchmark for LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Control
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks. A promising but largely under-explored area is their potential to facilitate human coordination with many ag...
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Jan 21
Ever wish you could coordinate thousands of units in games such as StarCraft through natural language alone?

We are excited to present our HIVE approach, a framework and benchmark for LLM-driven multi-agent control.
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Dec 9
See you in Vancouver!
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Nov 26
Thanks!
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Nov 26
I would like to join :) Here is a link to our GROW-AI project page that has relevant publications: sebastianrisi.com/grow-ai/
GROW-AI
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Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social · Nov 26
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Joachim W Pedersen @joachimwpedersen.bsky.social · Nov 24
Hi, I'm Joachim, I work as a postdoc on the Grow-AI project lead by @risi.bsky.social at ITU of CPH.
My PhD is titled "Bio-Inspired Approaches to Adaptive Artificial Agents" and since then, a lot of my time has revolved around Neural Developmental Programs:
watermark.silverchair.com/isal_a_00755...
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Nov 23
This may sound odd, but game-based benchmarks are some of the most useful for AI, since we have human scores and they require reasoning, planning & vision

The hardest of all is Nethack. No AI is close, and I suspect that an AI that can fairly win/ascend would need to be AGI-ish. Paper: balrogai.com
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Tim Rocktäschel @handle.invalid · Nov 20
Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack.

go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · Nov 15
Do babies pretrain? www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Helpless infants are learning a foundation model
Humans have a protracted postnatal helplessness period, typically attributed to human-specific maternal constraints causing an early birth when the brain is highly immature. By aligning neurodevelopme...
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REAL @real.itu.dk · Nov 15
Hello Bluesky 🦋

We are the REAL Lab. We work on Robotics, Evolution and Artificial Life at #ITU in #Copenhagen

Follow, cite & subscribe for more news on our research 🤖
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REAL @real.itu.dk · Nov 15
You can follow our group members here:

go.bsky.app/6ZKFVmQ
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