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Oct 2026
Inherited Learning in an Artificial Ecology: How Controls and Update Allocation Shape Benefits
Learning can improve an individual's behavior, yet a population risks losing that experience whenever individuals die and are replaced. Inheriting learned preferences offers a way to preserve useful behavior across generations, raising a question for artificial populations: when does inheritance improve collective perf...
Xue-Ning Wu, Lei Li, Shan Yu
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