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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 106/10

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The Whale That Outswam Evolution: Swarm Intelligence Maximises Memory in Connectome Reservoirs

Researchers applied four bio-inspired optimization algorithms to connectome-based neural networks across six animal species, demonstrating that gradient-free optimization can enhance biological neural structures by up to 17x on memory capacity tasks. The findings show that biological weight values, refined through evolution, serve as critical initial conditions that topology alone cannot replicate, establishing a principled approach for improving connectome-based reservoir computing systems.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 285/10

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Improving Evaluation of Recombination-based Cartesian Genetic Programming

Researchers demonstrate that recombination-based operators in Cartesian Genetic Programming can achieve competitive performance when combined with proper hyperparameter optimization, challenging the long-held assumption that mutation-only approaches are superior for symbolic regression tasks.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 286/10

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In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models

Researchers replicated Picbreeder, a landmark human-driven collaborative art generation platform, by substituting Vision Language Models for human users to test whether AI agents can engage in open-ended creative discovery. The study reveals qualitative differences between AI-generated outputs and historical human baselines, with findings suggesting that factors like exploratory noise, behavioral diversity, and memory mechanisms significantly influence AI creative capacity.