Microcosmos: A Differentiable Artificial Life Engine
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-09
This post shares the artificial life research project Microcosmos: a scalable, physically constrained, end-to-end differentiable artificial life engine. The "organisms" in the project are modeled as elastic filaments moving in a viscous fluid, and the author notes it has been accepted by ALIFE 2026. The reposter also mentions they are using this engine for co-evolution experiments, where one filament chases while the other flees.
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