The 2026 Artificial Life Conference
Meet Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life at MiniCon 16th August (hosted in the conference venue – room LH1010)! Best Paper Award Endosymbiotic Mutualism Can Constrain Host Diversity and Evolved Complexity Delaney Kelley; Owen Hillary; Elias Hillman-Emelianoff; Ahmad Khalili; Ruoyu Zhang; Kiara M. Johnson; Emily Dolson; Anya E. Vostinar; Alexander Lalejini Best Paper Award Architectural Relationship between Neural Cellular Automata and ConvLSTM Tsunekazu Omija; Keiki Takadama; Hitoshi Iba Paper of Distinction It’s Much Easier for Neural Networks to Learn Game of Life Dynamics with the Right Activation Function: Polynomial Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Tashin Ahmed; Q. Tyrell Davis Paper of Distinction The Surprising Evolvability of Unappreciated Cellular Automata Clifford Bohm; Arend Hintze Best Student Paper Award Endosymbiotic Mutualism Can Constrain Host Diversity and Evolved Complexity Delaney Kelley; Owen Hillary; Elias Hillman-Emelianoff; Ahmad Khalili; Ruoyu Zhang; Kiara M. John