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a.k.a. Q. Tyrell Davis
Glaberish (cellular automaton) glider pattern visualised at several levels of spatial discretisation.
Recent presentations, papers, projects.
- A paper I supervised, “It’s Much Easier for Neural Networks to Learn Game of Life Dynamics with the Right Activation Function: Polynomial Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks”, has recently (2026) been accepted to the 2026 Artificial Life conference. (The camera ready version of the paper will be finished and posted to the ArXiV soon).
- I was an organiser, presenter, and moderator for AEdu 2026, a three day virtual workshop at the intersection of teaching and artificial life.
- “Information Flows in Cellular Automata” a tutorial on using information theory to analyse cellular automata presented at the 2026 ALICE workshop (archived 2026-06). Slides available at https://iflowinca-f3799e.gitlab.io, code available at https://gitlab.com/asteraceous/iflowinca.
- CLASS (Cross Labs Alife Summer School). I designed the CLASS curriculum as an introduction to artificial life and complex systems for secondary school students. Slides, code.
- I presented work on self-organisation and selection-based homeostasis at Tokyo AI’s TAI AAI #12 session on evolutionary algorithms, 2026 September. Slides.
- “Simulated Universe Survival Guide” seminar presented at Cross Roads #49.
- Single-author paper “Non-Platonic Autopoiesis of a Cellular Automaton Glider in Asymptotic Lenia”. ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference. Online. (pp. 118). ASME. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00786. July 2024.
- Co-advisor on: Amanda Bertschinger, Q. Tyrell Davis}, James Bagrow, Joshua Bongard. ``The Metric is the Message: Benchmarking Challenges for Neural Symbolic Regression”. Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. 2023 September. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-43421-1_10, https://bagrow.com/pdf/bertschinger-2023-metric-message.pdf.
- Q. Tyrell Davis, Stephanie Woodman, Melanie Landesberg, Rebecca Kramer-Bottilgio, Josh Bongard. “Subtract to Adapt: Autotomic Robots”. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10122102
- Q. Tyrell Davis, Josh Bongard. “Step Size is a Consequential Parameter in Continuous Cellular Automata.” Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Artificial Life. (pp. 43). ASME. (2022 July). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00526, https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12728.
- Q. Tyrell Davis, Josh Bongard. “Glaberish: Generalizing the Continuously-Valued Lenia Framework to Arbitrary Life-Like Cellular Automata.” Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Artificial Life. (pp. 47). ASME. (2022 July). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00530, https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10463.
- Q. Tyrell Davis. “Carle’s Game: An Open-Ended Challenge in Exploratory Machine Creativity.” 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 01-08. (2021 August). https://doi.org/10.1109/CoG52621.2021.9619011.
- Sven A. Szilagyi, Moritz Burmeister, Q. Tyrell Davis, Gero L. Hermsdorf, Suman De, Erik Schäffer, Anita Jannasch. “Fast 3D imaging of giant unilamellar vesicles using reflected light-sheet microscopy with single molecule sensitivity.” (2020 June). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.26.174102
- Semantic Scholar profile: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Q.-Tyrell-Davis/31975869