Publication
Generative Adversarial Neural Cellular Automata
Maximilian Otte; Quentin Delfosse; Johannes Czech; Kristian Kersting
In: Computing Research Repository eprint Journal (CoRR), Vol. abs/2108.04328, Pages 0-10, arXiv, 2021.
Abstract
Motivated by the interaction between cells, the recently introduced concept of Neural Cellular Automata shows promising results in a variety of tasks. So far, this concept was mostly used to generate images for a single scenario. As each scenario requires a new model, this type of generation seems contradictory to the adaptability of cells in nature. To address this contradiction, we introduce a concept using different initial environments as input while using a single Neural Cellular Automata to produce several outputs. Additionally, we introduce GANCA, a novel algorithm that combines Neural Cellular Automata with Generative Adversarial Networks, allowing for more generalization through adversarial training. The experiments show that a single model is capable of learning several images when presented with different inputs, and that the adversarially trained model improves drastically on out-of-distribution data compared to a supervised trained model.