AI RESEARCH

On the Emergence of Syntax by Means of Local Interaction

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2604.17857v1 Announce Type: cross Can syntactic processing emerge spontaneously from purely local interaction? We present a concrete instance on a minimal system: an 18,658-parameter two-dimensional neural cellular automaton (NCA), supervised by nothing than a 1-bit boundary signal, is trained on the membership problem of an arithmetic-expression grammar. After