Chrisantha Fernando

According to our database, Chrisantha Fernando authored at least 47 papers between 2003 and 2024.

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2024

The origin and function of external representations.

Chrisantha Fernando, Simon Osindero, Dylan Banarse

Adapt. Behav., 2024

Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement via Prompt Evolution.

Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Henryk Michalewski, Simon Osindero, Tim Rocktäschel

Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

2022

CLIP-CLOP: CLIP-Guided Collage and Photomontage.

Piotr Mirowski, Dylan Banarse, Mateusz Malinowski, Simon Osindero, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 27, 2022

2021

Generative Art Using Neural Visual Grammars and Dual Encoders.

Chrisantha Fernando, S. M. Ali Eslami, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Piotr Mirowski, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero

CoRR, 2021

2020

From Language Games to Drawing Games.

Chrisantha Fernando, Daria Zenkova, Stanislav Nikolov, Simon Osindero

CoRR, 2020

2019

Evolving Intrinsic Motivations for Altruistic Behavior.

Jane X. Wang, Edward Hughes, Chrisantha Fernando, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Joel Z. Leibo

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

The Body is Not a Given: Joint Agent Policy Learning and Morphology Evolution.

Dylan Banarse, Yoram Bachrach, Siqi Liu, Guy Lever, Nicolas Heess, Chrisantha Fernando, Pushmeet Kohli, Thore Graepel

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

2018

Hierarchical Representations for Efficient Architecture Search.

Hanxiao Liu, Karen Simonyan, Oriol Vinyals, Chrisantha Fernando, Koray Kavukcuoglu

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018

Meta-learning by the baldwin effect.

Chrisantha Fernando, Jakub Sygnowski, Simon Osindero, Jane Wang, Tom Schaul, Denis Teplyashin, Pablo Sprechmann, Alexander Pritzel, Andrei A. Rusu

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2018

2017

Insect Bio-inspired Neural Network Provides New Evidence on How Simple Feature Detectors Can Enable Complex Visual Generalization and Stimulus Location Invariance in the Miniature Brain of Honeybees.

Mark Roper, Chrisantha Fernando, Lars Chittka

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2017

Population Based Training of Neural Networks.

Max Jaderberg, Valentin Dalibard, Simon Osindero, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Jeff Donahue, Ali Razavi, Oriol Vinyals, Tim Green, Iain Dunning, Karen Simonyan, Chrisantha Fernando, Koray Kavukcuoglu

CoRR, 2017

PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks.

Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Charles Blundell, Yori Zwols, David Ha, Andrei A. Rusu, Alexander Pritzel, Daan Wierstra

CoRR, 2017

Evolving brains in evolving environments.

Drew Purves, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

Lineage selection leads to evolvability at large population sizes.

Nathaniel Virgo, Eran Agmon, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

2016

Learning to Generate Genotypes with Neural Networks.

Alexander W. Churchill, Siddharth Sigtia, Chrisantha Fernando

CoRR, 2016

Convolution by Evolution: Differentiable Pattern Producing Networks.

Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Malcolm Reynolds, Frederic Besse, David Pfau, Max Jaderberg, Marc Lanctot, Daan Wierstra

Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Denver, CO, USA, July 20, 2016

2015

Evolving Diverse Strategies Through Combined Phenotypic Novelty and Objective Function Search.

Davy Smith, Laurissa N. Tokarchuk, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 18th European Conference, 2015

2014

An evolutionary cognitive architecture made of a bag of networks.

Alexander W. Churchill, Chrisantha Fernando

Evol. Intell., 2014

A Denoising Autoencoder that Guides Stochastic Search.

Alexander W. Churchill, Siddharth Sigtia, Chrisantha Fernando

CoRR, 2014

Voxel Robot: A Pneumatic Robot with Deformable Morphology.

Mark Roper, Nikolaos Katsaros, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 13, 2014

Modelling Reaction Times in Non-linear Classification Tasks.

Martha Lewis, Anna Fedor, Michael Öllinger, Eörs Szathmáry, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 13, 2014

Online Extreme Evolutionary Learning Machines.

Joshua Evan Auerbach, Chrisantha Fernando, Dario Floreano

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

2013

Design for a Darwinian Brain: Part 2. Cognitive Architecture

Chrisantha Fernando, Vera Vasas

CoRR, 2013

From Blickets to Synapses: Inferring Temporal Causal Networks by Observation.

Chrisantha Fernando

Cogn. Sci., 2013

Design for a Darwinian Brain: Part 2. Cognitive Architecture.

Chrisantha Fernando, Vera Vasas, Alexander W. Churchill

Proceedings of the Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 2013

Design for a Darwinian Brain: Part 1. Philosophy and Neuroscience.

Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 2013

2012

Fluid Construction Grammar in the Brain.

Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar, 2012

Evolution of Associative Learning in Chemical Networks.

Simon McGregor, Vera Vasas, Phil Husbands, Chrisantha Fernando

PLoS Comput. Biol., 2012

Selectionist and Evolutionary Approaches to Brain Function: A Critical Appraisal.

Chrisantha Fernando, Eörs Szathmáry, Phil Husbands

Frontiers Comput. Neurosci., 2012

Evolvable Physical Self-Replicators.

Nathaniel Virgo, Chrisantha Fernando, Bill Bigge, Phil Husbands

Artif. Life, 2012

2011

Evolvability of Natural and Artificial Systems.

Chrisantha Fernando, George Kampis, Eörs Szathmáry

Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, 2011

Co-evolution of lexical and syntactic classifiers during a language game.

Chrisantha Fernando

Evol. Intell., 2011

The elongation catastrophe in physical self-replicators.

Nathaniel Virgo, Chrisantha Fernando, Bill Bigge, Phil Husbands

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

2010

The Neuronal Replicator Hypothesis.

Chrisantha Fernando, Richard A. Goldstein, Eörs Szathmáry

Neural Comput., 2010

In Silico Biology.

Richard A. Goldstein, Phil Husbands, Chrisantha Fernando, Dov J. Stekel

Proceedings of the Biocomputing 2010: Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium, 2010

Neuronal replicators solve the stability-plasticity dilemma.

Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

The Origin of Informational Replicators by Serial Dilution of a Primordial Soup.

Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

2008

The origin of autonomous agents by natural selection.

Chrisantha Fernando, Jonathan E. Rowe

Biosyst., 2008

<i>The Principles of Life</i> Tibor Ganti. (2003, Oxford University Press.) 220 pages.

Chrisantha Fernando

Artif. Life, 2008

The Evolution of Evolvability in Gene Transcription Networks.

Eduardo Izquierdo, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

2007

Is there a Liquid State Machine in the Bacterium Escherichia Coli?

Ben Jones, Dov J. Stekel, Jonathan E. Rowe, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 2007

Hebbian learning in a simple gene circuit.

Chrisantha Thomas Fernando, Jonathan E. Rowe

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments.

Ingo Paenke, Bernhard Sendhoff, Jonathan E. Rowe, Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

Turing Complete Catalytic Particle Computers.

Anthony M. L. Liekens, Chrisantha Thomas Fernando

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

2005

Levels of Description: A Novel Approach to Dynamical Hierarchies.

Simon McGregor, Chrisantha Fernando

Artif. Life, 2005

The Good Symbiont.

Chrisantha Fernando

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 8th European Conference, 2005

2003

Pattern Recognition in a Bucket.

Chrisantha Fernando, Sampsa Sojakka

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, 2003