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Could the discretization and minimal circuit size be finding some minimal procedural description for generating patterns of interest?

Open question raised by the 5-gate checkerboard solution and its generalization properties

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Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata: From Game of Life to pattern generation with learned recurrent circuits

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Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata: From Game of Life to pattern generation with learned recurrent circuits
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Learned checkerboard generation circuit reduces to just 5 active logic gates after pruning (6 with one redundant AND)
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Remarkably minimal circuit discovered for checkerboard pattern generation
Checkerboard circuit trained on 16x16 grid successfully generalizes to 64x64 grid with 4x more time steps
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Grid scaling generalization result demonstrating boundary-size invariance

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