arxivcs.NE2026-07-17
Transient State Reorganization and Cell Differentiation in the Developmental Dynamics of Growing Neural Cellular Automata
Hiroki Sato, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegami
Growing Neural Cellular Automata (GNCA) develop complex morphologies from a single seed cell through shared local rules, yet the internal dynamics of this process remain poorly understood. To investigate how GNCA grows, the full developmental trajectory of trained GNCA models was…