Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms
Authors: Yanbo Zhang, Benedikt Hartl, Hananel Hazan, Michael LevinPaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02543 Code: https://github.com/Zhangyanbo/diffusion-evolution An interesting paper from Michael Levin and co. This is the same Michael Levin who has long been working on bioelectricity, artificial life, and many other biology-related topics. He gave a fantastic talk titled "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" at NeurIPS 2018:He also did an intriguing keynot...
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