Michael Levin

95 papers A* 1C 6Journal 77Unranked 10
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Cognition spaces: natural, artificial, and hybrid.
CoRR
Ricard V. Solé, Luís F. Seoane, Jordi Pla-Mauri, Michael Timothy Bennett, Michael E. Hochberg, Michael Levin
2026 J jnl
Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: a fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems.
CoRR
Benedikt Hartl, Léo Pio-Lopez, Chris Fields, Michael Levin
2025 J jnl
Advancing the Scientific Method with Large Language Models: From Hypothesis to Discovery.
CoRR
Yanbo Zhang, Sumeer Ahmad Khan, Adnan Mahmud, Huck Yang, Alexander Lavin, Michael Levin, Jeremy G. Frey, Jared Dunnmon, James A. Evans, Alan R. Bundy, Saso Dzeroski, Jesper Tegnér, Hector Zenil
2025 J jnl
Artificial Intelligences: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Michael Levin
2025 J jnl
Artificial Intelligences: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
Michael Levin
2025 J jnl
Cancermorphic Computing Toward Multilevel Machine Intelligence.
CoRR
Rosalia Moreddu, Michael Levin
2025 J jnl
Classical sorting algorithms as a model of morphogenesis: Self-sorting arrays reveal unexpected competencies in a minimal model of basal intelligence.
Adapt. Behav.
Taining Zhang, Adam Goldstein, Michael Levin
2025 A* conf
Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms.
ICLR
Yanbo Zhang, Benedikt Hartl, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin
2025 J jnl
Equilibrium flow: From Snapshots to Dynamics.
CoRR
Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin
2025 — conf
Free Lunch? Low-Cost Intelligence Through Pattern-Guided Exploration.
ICDL
Emily A. Ertle, Michael Levin, Matthias Scheutz
2025 — conf
Giving Simulated Cells a Voice: Evolving Prompt-to-Intervention Models for Cellular Control.
GECCO Companion
Nam H. Le, Patrick Erickson, Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin, Josh C. Bongard
2025 J jnl
Giving Simulated Cells a Voice: Evolving Prompt-to-Intervention Models for Cellular Control.
CoRR
Nam H. Le, Patrick Erikson, Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin, Josh C. Bongard
2025 J jnl
Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI.
CoRR
Benedikt Hartl, Michael Levin, Léo Pio-Lopez
2025 J jnl
Open Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems.
CoRR
Samson Abramsky, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Leo S. D. Caves, Michael Levin, Penousal Machado, Charles Ofria, Susan Stepney, Roger White
2025 J jnl
Revealing non-trivial information structures in aneural biological tissues via functional connectivity.
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Douglas Blackiston, Hannah Dromiack, Caitlin Grasso, Thomas F. Varley, Douglas G. Moore, Krishna Kannan Srinivasan, Olaf Sporns, Josh C. Bongard, Michael Levin, Sara Imari Walker
2025 J jnl
Topological constraints on self-organisation in locally interacting systems.
CoRR
Francesco Sacco, Dalton A. R. Sakthivadivel, Michael Levin
2025 J jnl
Universal multilayer network embedding reveals a causal link between GABA neurotransmitter and cancer.
BMC Bioinform.
Léo Pio-Lopez, Michael Levin
2025 J jnl
What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life.
CoRR
Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Michael Levin
2025 — conf
ZapGPT: Free-form Language Prompting for Simulated Cellular Control.
CIIS
Nam H. Le, Patrick Erickson, Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin, Josh V. Bongard
2025 J jnl
ZapGPT: Free-form Language Prompting for Simulated Cellular Control.
CoRR
Nam H. Le, Patrick Erickson, Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin, Josh C. Bongard
2024 J jnl
Bio-inspired AI: Integrating Biological Complexity into Artificial Intelligence.
CoRR
Nima Dehghani, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
Classical Sorting Algorithms as a Model of Morphogenesis: self-sorting arrays reveal unexpected competencies in a minimal model of basal intelligence.
CoRR
Taining Zhang, Adam Goldstein, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms.
CoRR
Yanbo Zhang, Benedikt Hartl, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
Discussions of machine versus living intelligence need more clarity.
Nat. Mac. Intell.
Nicolas Rouleau, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
Evolutionary Implications of Self-Assembling Cybernetic Materials with Collective Problem-Solving Intelligence at Multiple Scales.
Entropy
Benedikt Hartl, Sebastian Risi, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
From reinforcement learning to agency: Frameworks for understanding basal cognition.
Biosyst.
Gabriella Seifert, Ava Sealander, Sarah Marzen, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
Heuristically Adaptive Diffusion-Model Evolutionary Strategy.
CoRR
Benedikt Hartl, Yanbo Zhang, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection.
Entropy
Christopher L. Buckley, Tim Lewens, Michael Levin, Beren Millidge, Alexander Tschantz, Richard A. Watson
2024 J jnl
Oscillatory phenomena in electrophysiological networks: The coupling between cell bioelectricity and transcription.
Comput. Biol. Medicine
Javier Cervera, J. A. Manzanares, Michael Levin, Salvador Mafe
2024 J jnl
Principled Limitations on Self-Representation for Generic Physical Systems.
Entropy
Chris Fields, James F. Glazebrook, Michael Levin
2024 J jnl
Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue.
Entropy
Michael Levin
2023 J jnl
Cellular Competency during Development Alters Evolutionary Dynamics in an Artificial Embryogeny Model.
Entropy
Lakshwin Shreesha, Michael Levin
2023 J jnl
Cellular signaling pathways as plastic, proto-cognitive systems: Implications for biomedicine.
Patterns
Juanita Mathews, Alan (Jaelyn) Chang, Liam Devlin, Michael Levin
2023 J jnl
Control Flow in Active Inference Systems - Part I: Classical and Quantum Formulations of Active Inference.
IEEE Trans. Mol. Biol. Multi Scale Commun.
Chris Fields, Filippo Fabrocini, Karl J. Friston, James F. Glazebrook, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin, Antonino Marciano
2023 J jnl
Control Flow in Active Inference Systems - Part II: Tensor Networks as General Models of Control Flow.
IEEE Trans. Mol. Biol. Multi Scale Commun.
Chris Fields, Filippo Fabrocini, Karl J. Friston, James F. Glazebrook, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin, Antonino Marciano
2023 J jnl
Regulative development as a model for origin of life and artificial life studies.
Biosyst.
Chris Fields, Michael Levin
2023 J jnl
SBMLtoODEjax: efficient simulation and optimization of ODE SBML models in JAX.
CoRR
Mayalen Etcheverry, Michael Levin, Clément Moulin-Frier, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
2023 J jnl
Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence.
Biosyst.
Olaf Witkowski, Thomas Doctor, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Active inference, morphogenesis, and computational psychiatry.
Frontiers Comput. Neurosci.
Léo Pio-Lopez, Franz Kuchling, Angela Tung, Giovanni Pezzulo, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field.
CoRR
Douglas Blackiston, Sam Kriegman, Josh C. Bongard, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines.
Nat. Mach. Intell.
Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Mario Aguilar-Simon, Jonathan Babb, Maxim Bazhenov, Douglas Blackiston, Josh C. Bongard, Andrew P. Brna, Suraj Chakravarthi Raja, Nick Cheney, Jeff Clune, Anurag Reddy Daram, Stefano Fusi, Peter Helfer, Leslie Kay, Nicholas Ketz, Zsolt Kira, Soheil Kolouri, Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Sam Kriegman, Michael Levin, Sandeep Madireddy, Santosh Manicka, Ali Marjaninejad, Bruce McNaughton, Risto Miikkulainen, Zaneta Navratilova, Tej Pandit, Alice Parker, Praveen K. Pilly, Sebastian Risi, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Andrea Soltoggio, Nicholas Soures, Andreas S. Tolias, Darío Urbina-Meléndez, Francisco J. Valero Cuevas, Gido M. van de Ven, Joshua T. Vogelstein, Felix Wang, Ron Weiss, Angel Yanguas-Gil, Xinyun Zou, Hava T. Siegelmann
2022 J jnl
Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence.
Entropy
Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Competency in Navigating Arbitrary Spaces as an Invariant for Analyzing Cognition in Diverse Embodiments.
Entropy
Chris Fields, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Competition for finite resources as coordination mechanism for morphogenesis: An evolutionary algorithm study of digital embryogeny.
Biosyst.
Peter Smiley, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Memory via Temporal Delays in weightless Spiking Neural Network.
CoRR
Hananel Hazan, Simon Caby, Christopher Earl, Hava T. Siegelmann, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales.
Entropy
Franz Kuchling, Chris Fields, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Minimal Developmental Computation: A Causal Network Approach to Understand Morphogenetic Pattern Formation.
Entropy
Santosh Manicka, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Neurons as hierarchies of quantum reference frames.
Biosyst.
Chris Fields, James F. Glazebrook, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (TAME): an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds.
CoRR
Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
The Free Energy Principle drives neuromorphic development.
CoRR
Chris Fields, Karl J. Friston, James F. Glazebrook, Michael Levin, Antonino Marciano
2022 J jnl
The free energy principle induces neuromorphic development.
Neuromorph. Comput. Eng.
Chris Fields, Karl J. Friston, James F. Glazebrook, Michael Levin, Antonino Marciano
2022 J jnl
The scaling of goals via homeostasis: an evolutionary simulation, experiment and analysis.
CoRR
Léo Pio-Lopez, Johanna Bischof, Jennifer V. LaPalme, Michael Levin
2022 J jnl
There's Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-scale Machines.
CoRR
Joshua Clifford Bongard, Michael Levin
2021 J jnl
A Comprehensive Conceptual and Computational Dynamics Framework for Autonomous Regeneration Systems.
Artif. Life
Tran Nguyen Minh-Thai, Sandhya Samarasinghe, Michael Levin
2021 J jnl
A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines.
Sci. Robotics
Douglas Blackiston, Emma Lederer, Sam Kriegman, Simon Garnier, Joshua Clifford Bongard, Michael Levin
2021 J jnl
Metabolic limits on classical information processing by biological cells.
Biosyst.
Chris Fields, Michael Levin
2021 J jnl
Morphology changes induced by intercellular gap junction blocking: A reaction-diffusion mechanism.
Biosyst.
Javier Cervera, Michael Levin, Salvador Mafe
2021 — conf
Scale invariant robot behavior with fractals.
Robotics: Science and Systems
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Douglas Blackiston, Hannah Steele, Michael Levin, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Josh C. Bongard
2021 J jnl
Scale invariant robot behavior with fractals.
CoRR
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Douglas Blackiston, Hannah Steele, Michael Levin, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Josh C. Bongard
2020 J jnl
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, Josh C. Bongard
2020 J jnl
Machine Learning-Driven Bioelectronics for Closed-Loop Control of Cells.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
John Selberg, Mohammad Jafari, Juanita Mathews, Manping Jia, Pattawong Pansodtee, Harika Dechiraju, Chunxiao Wu, Sergio Cordero, Alexander Flora, Nebyu Yonas, Sophia Jannetty, Miranda Diberardinis, Mircea Teodorescu, Michael Levin, Marcella Gomez, Marco Rolandi
2020 J jnl
Machine Learning-Driven Bioelectronics for Closed-Loop Control of Cells.
Adv. Intell. Syst.
John Selberg, Mohammad Jafari, Juanita Mathews, Manping Jia, Pattawong Pansodtee, Harika Dechiraju, Chunxiao Wu, Sergio Cordero, Alexander Flora, Nebyu Yonas, Sophia Jannetty, Miranda Diberardinis, Mircea Teodorescu, Michael Levin, Marcella Gomez, Marco Rolandi
2020 C conf
Robot Cancer: what the bioelectrics of embryogenesis and regeneration can teach us about unconventional computing, cognition, and the software of life.
ALIFE
Michael Levin
2020 — conf
Scalable sim-to-real transfer of soft robot designs.
RoboSoft
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan S. Shah, Hannah Steele, Gabrielle Branin, Michael Levin, Josh C. Bongard, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
2019 J jnl
Automated shapeshifting for function recovery in damaged robots.
CoRR
Sam Kriegman, Stephanie Walker, Dylan S. Shah, Michael Levin, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Josh C. Bongard
2019 J jnl
Modeling somatic computation with non-neural bioelectric networks.
CoRR
Santosh Manicka, Michael Levin
2019 J jnl
Neural control of body-plan axis in regenerating planaria.
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Alexis Mari Pietak, Johanna Bischof, Joshua LaPalme, Junji Morokuma, Michael Levin
2019 J jnl
Scalable sim-to-real transfer of soft robot designs.
CoRR
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan S. Shah, Hannah Steele, Gabrielle Branin, Michael Levin, Josh C. Bongard, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
2019 — ch.
Toward Modeling Regeneration via Adaptable Echo State Networks.
From Parallel to Emergent Computing
Jennifer Hammelman, Hava T. Siegelmann, Santosh Manicka, Michael Levin
2018 — conf
A Computational Framework for Autonomous Self-repair Systems.
Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Tran Nguyen Minh-Thai, Jagannath Aryal, Sandhya Samarasinghe, Michael Levin
2018 C conf
From Physics to Pattern: Uncovering Pattern Formation in Tissue Electrophysiology.
ALIFE
Micah Z. Brodsky, Michael Levin
2018 J jnl
Inform: Efficient Information-Theoretic Analysis of Collective Behaviors.
Frontiers Robotics AI
Douglas G. Moore, Gabriele Valentini, Sara Imari Walker, Michael Levin
2018 C conf
Modeling Cell Migration in a Simulated Bioelectrical Signaling Network for Anatomical Regeneration.
ALIFE
Giordano B. S. Ferreira, Matthias Scheutz, Michael Levin
2018 C conf
Pattern Regeneration in Coupled Networks.
ALIFE
Douglas G. Moore, Sara Imari Walker, Michael Levin
2018 J jnl
Slime mould: The fundamental mechanisms of biological cognition.
Biosyst.
Jordi Vallverdú, Òscar Castro Garcia, Richard Mayne, Max Talanov, Michael Levin, Frantisek Baluska, Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Audrey Dussutour, Hector Zenil, Andrew Adamatzky
2018 J jnl
The bioelectric code: An ancient computational medium for dynamic control of growth and form.
Biosyst.
Michael Levin, Christopher J. Martyniuk
2017 J jnl
A computational model of planarian regeneration.
Int. J. Parallel Emergent Distributed Syst.
Abhishek De, V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, Michael Levin
2017 — conf
Inform: A toolkit for information-theoretic analysis of complex systems.
SSCI
Douglas G. Moore, Gabriele Valentini, Sara Imari Walker, Michael Levin
2017 — conf
Introducing simulated stem cells into a bio-inspired cell-cell communication mechanism for structure regeneration.
SSCI
Giordano B. S. Ferreira, Matthias Scheutz, Michael Levin
2017 — conf
Investigating the effects of noise on a cell-to-cell communication mechanism for structure regeneration.
ECAL
Giordano B. S. Ferreira, Matthias Scheutz, Michael Levin
2017 — conf
Microfluidic platform to study intercellular connectivity through on-chip electrical impedance measurement.
MWSCAS
Joel Dungan, Juanita Mathews, Michael Levin, Valencia Koomson
2017 J jnl
Modeling regenerative processes with membrane computing.
Inf. Sci.
Manuel García-Quismondo, Michael Levin, Daniel Lobo
2017 J jnl
Slime mould: the fundamental mechanisms of cognition.
CoRR
Jordi Vallverdú, Òscar Castro Garcia, Richard Mayne, Max Talanov, Michael Levin, Frantisek Baluska, Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Audrey Dussutour, Hector Zenil, Andrew Adamatzky
2016 C conf
A Level Set Approach to Simulating Xenopus laevis Tail Regeneration.
ALIFE
Michael Levin, Jason H. Rife, Zachary Serlin
2016 J jnl
Computational discovery and
Bioinform.
Daniel Lobo, Junji Morokuma, Michael Levin
2016 J jnl
Corrigendum to "On chirality of slime mould" [BioSystems 140 (2016) 23-27].
Biosyst.
Alice Dimonte, Andrew Adamatzky, Victor Erokhin, Michael Levin
2016 C conf
Dynamic Structure Discovery and Repair for 3D Cell Assemblages.
ALIFE
Michael Levin, Matthias Scheutz, Max Smiley, Giordano B. Ferreira
2016 J jnl
MoCha: Molecular Characterization of Unknown Pathways.
J. Comput. Biol.
Daniel Lobo, Jennifer Hammelman, Michael Levin
2016 J jnl
On chirality of slime mould.
Biosyst.
Alice Dimonte, Andrew Adamatzky, Victor Erokhin, Michael Levin
2015 J jnl
Inferring Regulatory Networks from Experimental Morphological Phenotypes: A Computational Method Reverse-Engineers Planarian Regeneration.
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Daniel Lobo, Michael Levin
2014 J jnl
Design of a flexible component gathering algorithm for converting cell-based models to graph representations for use in evolutionary search.
BMC Bioinform.
Marianna Budnikova, Jeffrey W. Habig, Daniel Lobo, Nicolas Cornia, Michael Levin, Timothy L. Andersen
2014 J jnl
Limbform: a functional ontology-based database of limb regeneration experiments.
Bioinform.
Daniel Lobo, Erica B. Feldman, Michelle Shah, Taylor J. Malone, Michael Levin
2013 J jnl
Planform: an application and database of graph-encoded planarian regenerative experiments.
Bioinform.
Daniel Lobo, Taylor J. Malone, Michael Levin
2012 J jnl
Modeling Planarian Regeneration: A Primer for Reverse-Engineering the Worm.
PLoS Comput. Biol.
Daniel Lobo, Wendy S. Beane, Michael Levin
2012 J jnl
Morphogenetic fields in embryogenesis, regeneration, and cancer: Non-local control of complex patterning.
Biosyst.
Michael Levin