Growing Neural Cellular Automata (2020) (distill.pub)

That is a pretty interesting work. Maybe a model derivation of this can be image (historic) restoration or new noise filters?

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Why use differentiable models here, it seems like a big limitation to CA just to allow back-prop. Can't these be trained with genetic algorithms or evolutionary methods like SPSA?

Very cool! Managed to put the butterfly in an loop.

https://i.imgur.com/cStndTQ.png