New work at Caltech, presented at this year’s NeurIPS conference, proposes a way to grow a self-organizing artificial neural network. The programming is inspired by the developing neural connections in our own brains—growing an entire network from just one neuron. My animation team created this short explainer video to describe the concepts and contributed illustrations to the paper figures.

Read the full paper on arXiv.org and watch our extended abstract video presented at the 2019 NeurIPS Conference.