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  1. Learning Traffic Flow Dynamics with Stochastic Physics-Informed Neural Cellular Automata

    Oct 7, 2026Federica Bragone, Matthieu BarreauNeural Cellular AutomataCellular Automata

    Department of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  2. 2D Spatial Reasoning with Adaptive Neural Cellular Automata

    Oct 6, 2026Martin Spitznagel, Janis KeuperNeural Cellular AutomataVisual Spatial Reasoning

    Institute for Machine Learning and Analytics (IMLA), Offenburg University, Germany · University of Mannheim, Germany

  3. MetaLearnNCA: Few-Shot Offline Meta-Learning via Interacting Neural Cellular Automata

    Oct 6, 2026Etienne Guichard, Stefano NicheleNeural Cellular AutomataMeta-Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Communication hiof.no

  4. Where Does Randomness Matter in Neural Cellular Automata?

    Sep 29, 2026Fei Zuo, Jiaqi Shi, Yujing LiuNeural Cellular AutomataCellular Automata

    Fudan University · Independent Researcher · Shanghai Pupuda Culture Communication Co., Ltd.

  5. Reasoning with Neural Cellular Automata

    Sep 28, 2026Mayalen Etcheverry, Pietro Miotti, Aidan Sirbu +7Neural Cellular AutomataNeural Network Generalization

    Google Paradigms of Intelligence Team · School of Computer Science, McGill University · Mila - Quebec AI Institute +4

  6. On Growth and Form, and Function: Reusable Regulatory Handles Control Phenotypic Variation

    Sep 24, 2026Benedikt Hartl, Milton L. Montero, Marcello Barylli +2Neural Cellular Automata

    Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA · IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark · Sakana AI, Japan +1

  7. Online Task Adaptation via Self-Organisation

    Sep 24, 2026Krsto ProrokovićNeural Cellular AutomataMemory-Augmented Neural Networks

    Independent Researcher Montenegro

  8. Applications of Neural Cellular Automata: State of the Art, Challenges and Opportunities

    Sep 21, 2026Nick Lemke, Niklas Ihm, John Kalkhof +11Neural Cellular AutomataMedical Image Analysis

    Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany · ImFusion GmbH, Munich, Germany · Inria Center at University Cˆote d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France +9

  9. Self-Replicating Neural Cellular Automata: Quantifying Emergent Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity in an OpenEnded Substrate

    Sep 17, 2026Sanyam Jain, Felix Simon Reimers, Stefano NicheleNeural Cellular AutomataArtificial Life

    Department of Computer Science and Communication, Østfold University of Applied Sciences, B R A veien 4, 1757 Halden, Norway · Department of Computer Science, Oslo Metropolitan University, Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo, Norway

  10. Learning PDE Time-Stepping with Neural Cellular Automata

    Aug 31, 2026Esha Saha, Hao WangNeural Cellular AutomataPDE Solving

    1Interdisciplinary Lab for Mathematical Ecology and Epidemiology (ILMEE) & The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton (AB), T6G 2J5, Canada

  11. TextNCA: Neural Cellular Automata for Language Modeling via Hierarchical Local Attention

    Aug 3, 2026Avni Mittal, Avinash Anand, Ashutosh Kumar +7Neural Cellular AutomataAutoregressive Language Modeling

    Independent Researcher · Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore · IIIT Delhi, India +2

  12. Emulating Cosmic Structure Formation with a Lagrangian Neural Cellular Automaton

    Jul 29, 2026Cooper Jacobus, Beatriz Tucci, Oliver PhilcoxNeural Surrogate ModelingNeural Cellular Automata

    Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA · Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford · Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford

  13. Transient State Reorganization and Cell Differentiation in the Developmental Dynamics of Growing Neural Cellular Automata

    Jul 17, 2026Hiroki Sato, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi IkegamiNeural Cellular Automata

    1The University of Tokyo, Japan · 2Alternative Machine Inc., Japan · 3Atomi University, Japan

  14. One-Shot Generative Design for Disordered Metamaterials via Self-Organizing Neural Cellular Automata

    Jul 16, 2026Yujie Xiang, Liwei WangNeural Cellular AutomataMaterials Science

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

  15. Structured Fluctuations and the Information Dynamics of Self-Maintenance in Growing Neural Cellular Automata

    Jul 14, 2026Atsushi Masumori, Hiroki Sato, Takashi IkegamiNeural Cellular AutomataDynamical Systems

    The University of Tokyo · Atomi University · Alternative Machine Inc.

  16. Architecture Generalization with MetaNCA

    Jul 8, 2026Meet Barot, Daniel Berenberg, Sina KhajehabdollahiNeural Cellular AutomataNeural Network Generalization

    Mythos Scientific, New York, USA · Independent Scholar

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

    Jun 22, 2026Tong Zhang, Etienne Guichard, Sidney Pontes-Filho +1Neural Cellular AutomataReservoir Computing

    1Independent Researcher, Beijing, China · 2Østfold University College, Halden, Norway · 3Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

  18. Communication Heterogeneity and Collective Consensus in Neural Cellular Automata

    Jun 19, 2026Nishit SinghNeural Cellular AutomataMulti-Agent Coordination

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani · Pilani, Rajasthan, India

  19. Aerial Wildfire Suppression Planning with a Hybrid CNN-Cellular Automata Fire Model

    Jun 11, 2026Ion Matei, Maksym Zhenirovskyy, Takuya Kurihana +2Neural Cellular AutomataDisaster Response

    Space Data Frontiers Research Center, Fujitsu Research of America, 4655 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, 95054, California, USA.

  20. Neural-Parameterized Cellular Automata for Wildfire Spread

    Jun 10, 2026Maksym Zhenirovskyy, Ion Matei, Rohit Vuppala +2Neural Cellular AutomataCellular Automata

    Fujitsu Research of America, 4655 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, 95124, CA, USA

  21. Measuring Prediction Uncertainty in Neural Cellular Automata

    May 26, 2026Ario Sadafi, Michael Deutges, Nassir Navab +1Neural Cellular AutomataImage Segmentation

    Computational Health Center, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany · Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany · Computer Aided Medical Procedures, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany +4

  22. Learning Developmental Scaffoldings to Guide Self-Organisation

    May 14, 2026Milton L. Montero, Elias Najarro, Jakob Schauser +1Neural Cellular AutomataSymmetry Breaking

    IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark · University of Copenhagen, Denmark · Sakana AI, Japan

  23. Texture Regenerating and Grafting Using Genome-Driven Neural Cellular Automata

    May 13, 2026Mirela-Magdalena Catrina, Ioana Cristina Plajer, Alexandra BăicoianuNeural Cellular AutomataImage Generation

    Transilvania University of Brașov, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics 29 Eroilor, 500036, Brașov, Romania

  24. Von Neumann Networks

    May 7, 2026Shekhar S. ChandraNeural Cellular AutomataCellular Automata

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland, Australia.

  25. Structural Generalization on SLOG without Hand-Written Rules

    Apr 28, 2026Zichao WeiNeural Cellular AutomataSemantic Parsing

    Saarland University

  26. A New Kind of Network? Review and Reference Implementation of Neural Cellular Automata

    Apr 27, 2026Martin Spitznagel, Janis KeuperNeural Cellular AutomataCellular Automata

    Institute for Machine Learning and Analytics (IMLA), Offenburg University, Germany · University of Mannheim, Germany

  27. On the Emergence of Syntax by Means of Local Interaction

    Apr 20, 2026Zichao WeiNeural Cellular AutomataNeural Processes

    Saarland University

  28. Evolving Many Worlds: Towards Open-Ended Discovery in Petri Dish NCA via Population-Based Training

    Apr 13, 2026Uljad Berdica, Jakob Foerster, Frank Hutter +1Neural Cellular AutomataNovelty Search

    1FLAIR, University of Oxford · 2ELLIS Institute Tübingen · University of Freiburg +2

  29. Neural Particle Automata: Learning Self-Organizing Particle Dynamics

    Jan 22, 2026Hyunsoo Kim, Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Sabine Süsstrunk +2Neural Cellular AutomataDynamical Systems

    KAIST, South Korea · EPFL, Switzerland