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Mass conservation promotes self-organized criticality in neural automata reservoirs

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Researchers have explored the use of mass conservation as an inductive bias to promote self-organized criticality (SOC) in neural cellular automata (NCA) reservoirs. This approach, which involves a local redistribution rule that preserves total lattice mass, was found to consistently exhibit stronger criticality compared to standard NCAs. The mass-conserving NCAs were also faster to evolve and achieved comparable performance on downstream tasks such as sequential memory, digit classification, and temporal control, suggesting that mass conservation is an effective mechanism for enhancing criticality without compromising utility. AI

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Mass conservation promotes self-organized criticality in neural automata reservoirs

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  1. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · Stefano Nichele ·

    Mass Conservation as an Inductive Bias for Self-Organized Criticality in NCA Reservoirs

    Self-organized criticality (SOC), a dynamical regime associated with maximal information processing, offers a promising foundation for reservoir computing. Recent work has shown that neural cellular automata (NCA) can be evolved toward critical avalanche dynamics and employed as …

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