year: 2025/05
paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.08778
website:
code:
connections: NCA, ARC, ALIFE 2025, EngramNCA - A Neural Cellular Automaton Model of Memory Transfer, Stefano Nichele
Simultaneous work Neural Cellular Automata for ARC-AGI
NCA training loop ⇒ program generator (program synthesis)
They generate an NCA from scratch for each problem, training only on the examples given!
And evaluate on the evaluation problem afterwards.
Mentioned future work:
- pretraining NCA to develop priors
- methods that combine nca for reasoning and image processing
- critical ncas as neocortexes