MINIMAL INFERENCE CELLULAR AUTOMATON

Flame-W 0.3.6 · learned integer cellular rules.

Explore an alternative cellular architecture, reproduce the measurements, and help us find what it can and cannot do.

Early non-commercial research. Held-out text prediction improved; free sentences can still be incoherent. Tiny ToM is 33.20% (664/2,000), versus 32.25% for 0.3.5; the gain is not statistically established (paired p = 0.17). This is not a fluent assistant.

Flame-W 0.3.6

16,384 word symbols; learned integer cellular rules, language memories, a previous-word bank and a 210-integer phrase-copy table. Story-belief mode is a separate experimental extension.

34.11 MB automaton

Runtime, vocabulary and memory banks are additional. Custom NumPy inference; no GPU required.

Measured text prediction

8.0738 → 7.7236

Long500 bits/word+EOS, 0.3.5 → 0.3.6. Short500: 5.1622 → 5.1207. Lower is better; both paired 95% intervals exclude zero. Sentence quality remains experimental.

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Ember

The compact byte-level branch focuses on word assistance. Its scores and units differ from Flame-W's word-symbol scores.

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How does it work?

Word-symbol IDs enter cellular state. Learned local integer rules update that state over ticks. An integer readout plus memory tables score the next symbol. Python uses floating-point probability normalization and decoder ranking. There are no transformer attention blocks. Story questions may use a separate CA belief-memory plane with an external English adapter; they are a different task from free text generation.

Read the 0.3.6 architecture changes, paired results and limitations ↗

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This embeds the MICA website. Its server runs on the project's Vercel deployment, not HF Space compute. Check the site's displayed version. For the current 0.3.6 release, download its native Python package above. The legacy notebook is explicitly pinned to 0.3.5 and does not reproduce 0.3.6. The embedded website saves prompts, outputs and ratings for research/training; do not enter private data.

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