Sensor Movement Drives Emergent Attention and Scalability in Active Neural Cellular Automata
Mia-Katrin Kvalsund, Kai Olav Ellefsen, Kyrre Glette, Sidney Pontes-Filho, Mikkel Elle Lepperød
This paper introduces ANCA, a neocortex-inspired model with movable sensors that naturally exhibits active sensing, improving classification performance and scalability without explicit attention mechanisms.
Neural Networks · Mar 3, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience